Yanmar
Yanmar TL80VP
The bright segment is what Yanmar TL80VP is rated to carry; the grey run past it is the rest of its tipping load. Bar length is tipping load drawn to the same scale on every machine on the site, so a short bar is a smaller machine and not a conservative rating.
Yanmar publishes no list price for this machine, and we found no dealer listing worth quoting, so there is no number here to give you. What we can say is what the machines around it cost: the middle half of the 26 track loaders within 15 per cent of its capacity list between $75,490 and $92,000. That is a fact about them, not a quote for this one.
Wide-track vertical-lift machine from Yanmar's August 2026 Posi-Track announcement: 71.5 hp, 2,800 lb rated capacity, 17.7-inch tracks and 3.9 psi ground pressure. It is the lowest-ground-pressure vertical-lift machine Yanmar builds, and the closest thing in the range to a one-machine answer for crews working on finished ground.
Also sold as
The same machine is sold as the ASV VT-80-1C — different paint, different dealer network, same hardware, so the choice is usually about which dealer is closer and which one you would rather owe a service call to.
Suits: Landscape and site-prep crews who need truck-loading height and the lightest footprint a vertical-lift CTL can manage Its vertical lift path reaches highest at full extension, for loading high-sided trucks and stacking.
Lifting and reach
- Rated operating capacityTrack loader rating convention
- 2,800 lbs
- Tipping load
- 8,000 lbs
- Lift path
- Vertical Lift
- Operating weight
- 8,955 lbs
Power and hydraulics
- Engine power
- 71.5 hp
- Engine
- Yanmar 4TN86CHT
- Auxiliary flowStandard circuit
- 24.7 GPM
- Flow type
- Standard
- Warranty
- 2 yr / 2,000 hr
Fitted or available
What this machine can be ordered with. Some of these are standard and some cost extra, and which is which moves between trim levels, so check them against the quote rather than against this list.
What owners of the same hardware report
Nobody has written up this exact machine yet, so this is drawn from reports on the machines that share its hardware — the model it replaced, a sibling on the same platform, or the same machine sold under another badge. The prose says which in each case. It is accurate about the iron rather than about this particular model.
Vertical lift and genuine flotation rarely arrive in the same machine - most low-ground-pressure loaders in this class are radial - and that combination is the reason to look here. Yanmar dropped ASV's Posi-Track undercarriage under its mid-frame in August 2026 and let the letter in the model name carry the distinction. Yanmar's own framing is that the Posi-Track machines are "engineered for exceptional traction and performance on soft, wet, slippery, rough, or hilly terrain" while the steel-embedded models are "designed for durability and performance in construction and hard-surface environments".
The hardware underneath is a dual-level system: two independent torsion axles working with two independent torsion bogie wheels per undercarriage, and 12 ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene and rubber wheels per track on sealed bearings. That is what produces 3.9 psi and a usable 9.1 mph over ground where the steel-embedded version would have to slow down to keep a bucket loaded. The all-rubber belt lays down as many as four times the ground contact points of a steel-embedded one, which is also why track life on this design is quoted at 1,500 to 2,000 hours rather than roughly 1,000. The cost side is consistent among people who have run ASV's equivalents for years: more wheels, bearings and seals to wear, a track set that costs a few hundred more, and dealer-list undercarriage parts expensive enough that experienced owners source aftermarket. Washing out the rails is the maintenance strategy, not an optional extra.
Rutting as the expensive mistake puts it with a landscaper, utility contractor or site builder - wet ground, finished turf, spring thaw. It is the wrong machine for concrete, rock and demolition, where the TL80VS-1C keeps its tracks longer for less. Three things before signing: confirm whether the 34.3 gpm circuit is on the order or only in the brochure; get the unpublished bucket pin height measured and written down; and quote the identical ASV VT-80-1C from whichever dealer is nearer, because on this undercarriage the distance to a parts counter is a running cost, not a convenience.
What owners like
- 3.9 psi on 17.7-inch tracks, from a machine carrying 2,800 lb of rated capacity, is remarkably light for a vertical-lift loader - 64.5 inches on the ground gives 2,283 square inches of contact.
- Standard auxiliary flow is 24.7 gpm before you option anything, with 34.3 gpm at 3,771 psi on the high-flow build, which is a real step up from the smaller Posi-Track machines.
- 9.1 mph against the TL80VS-1C's 8 mph, with ground pressure down from 5.1 psi to 3.9 - the speed and the flotation arrive together rather than trading off.
- SmartAssist Remote telematics, the rearview camera, two-speed travel, adjustable joysticks and an LED lighting package are all standard here, where several of them are paid options on the steel-embedded TL80VS-1C. That is a reversal of the usual pattern and worth checking on both quotes.
- 8,955 lb at the open-ROPS weight is 655 lb under the TL80VS-1C, which is the difference between two trailer classes for some buyers.
- Yanmar publishes both share bases - 2,800 lb at 35% of tipping and 4,000 lb at 50% - so it is straightforward to line up honestly against rivals that only quote the flattering number.
What owners complain about
- Rated capacity is 100 lb BELOW the steel-embedded TL80VS-1C on the identical engine. The Posi-Track undercarriage buys flotation and speed, not lift, and should not be presented as the upgrade.
- No bucket pin height is published for this or any other Posi-Track model, so the one figure that settles whether it clears your truck sides is missing from the spec sheet - get it measured and written into the quote.
- High flow is an option, so the 34.3 gpm figure is a cost line rather than a given.
- All-rubber tracks with no steel core are the source of the flotation and its boundary: rock, rebar and demolition debris cut them faster than they cut steel-embedded belts.
- Undercarriage running costs are higher than a conventional design. Comparable ASV track sets run roughly $4,000 to $6,000 against $3,500 to $5,500 for a rival's, and there are more bogie wheels, bearings and seals beneath the machine to wear out.
- It launched in August 2026 with no published price and no used market, and the same hardware is sold as the ASV VT-80-1C, so two dealer networks quote one machine and there is nothing yet to benchmark either quote against.
Drawn from yanmarce.com, compactequip.com, asvi.com, ownrops.com.
What buyers ask
Why does the TL80VP lift less than the TL80VS-1C?
Is it the same machine as the ASV VT-80-1C?
What is standard versus optional on this model?
How long do the tracks last and what do they cost?
What lift height does it have?
Can it handle demolition or rock work?
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