Wheeled hydraulic excavator
An excavator that takes itself to the site.
On short, scattered jobs, what it saves on transport weighs more than what it loses in stability.
Other names for this machine: mobile excavator, wheeled digger, road-going excavator.
- Category
- CACES R.482A category B1 above 6 t
- Status
- Direct carrier of attachments
What it does
it avoids the low-loader on short, scattered jobs.
It has taken itself to the site:
that is the whole point.
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that is what makes it pay on short, scattered jobs.
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An excavator that travels on the road on its own between two work points.
It avoids the low-loader for short and scattered sites.
What it does not do. On soft ground or on a slope, it is not worth a tracked machine.
The stabilisers govern what it can lift.
What governs the fitting of an attachment
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The class of the machine
It is what bounds the permissible weight and volume of the tool.
A tool that is too heavy is not merely ineffective:
it makes the machine unstable and tires the arm. -
The coupler system
Direct mounting, mechanical, hydraulic or automatic quick coupler, and the type of the coupler itself.
It is the first thing to identify, and the one people get wrong most often. -
The flow of the auxiliary line
Expressed in litres per minute.
A hydraulic tool fed below its flow works badly; fed above it, it overheats and wears out. -
The pressure available
In bar.
The flow makes the speed, the pressure makes the force.
Both are checked, never one without the other. -
The free return to tank
Some tools, hammers and mulchers first among them, require it.
Its absence does not show on a sales sheet and is discovered when fitting. -
The lifting capacity at the working reach
It has nothing to do with the weight of the machine.
It is read on the manufacturer's load chart, at the real reach and height of the work.
One model, as a reference point
The values below hold for this model only.
They are there to give an order of magnitude to anyone who has none, not to serve as a reference.
- Operating weight
- 15,200 to 17,500 kg depending on the configuration
- ISO 9249 power
- 105 kW, that is 143 hp at 1,800 rpm
- Main pump
- 250 l/min
- Working pressure
- 350 bar
- Backacter bucket
- 0,17 à 0,87 m³
Caveat. A document obtained from a dealer and not from the manufacturer's site, and with no publication date.
To be confirmed before going online.
Source. Liebherr product brochure, obtained from a French dealer,
document with no publication date, recorded on 1 September 2026.
These values are those of one precise model, at one precise date. They do not describe a category:
there are no characteristics of a compact loader in general, there are those of the model you have.
They change from one year to the next and never replace the data sheet of your machine.
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the coupler, the flow, the pressure and the capacity on your machine,
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