JCB is increasing its vary of Loadall agricultural telescopic handlers with the launch of two new 7.0 metre machines that includes elevated carry capability and break-out drive for higher productiveness.
“The brand new Loadall 546-70 and 555-70 illustrate JCB’s dedication to fulfill the evolving wants of farmers and contractors with modern and productivity-led options, on this case by introducing two new Loadall fashions with elevated efficiency in a package deal no bigger – and subsequently simply as agile – as our current 7.0 metre machines,” says John Smith, JCB managing director.
The Loadall 546-70 is able to lifting as much as 4.6 tonnes, an 8.7% or 400kg capability enhance over the present 542-70, and generates higher bucket/fork tear-out drive – however with no enhance in general machine dimension to protect straightforward and assured manoeuvrability inside and round buildings.
The 546-70 shall be accessible in three of JCB’s well-established efficiency and gear packages – Agri Tremendous with 97kW (130hp), Agri Xtra with 112kW (150hp) and top-spec Agri Professional with 129kW (173hp).
The brand new JCB Loadall 555-70 supplies much more of a efficiency enhance, lifting 5.5 tonnes – virtually 24% greater than the 542-70 – and can are available in Agri Xtra and Agri Professional types.
JCB will provide all variants with 160-litre/min load-sensing Good Hydraulics and 40kph DualTech VT drive, this award-winning transmission having a mix of hydrostatic and powershift components with automated, seamless transitions between the 2 in keeping with floor pace.
The distinctive DualTech VT design supplies hydrostatic precision and low-speed manoeuvring management when working in and round buildings, and direct-drive automated powershift – there isn’t a torque converter – for optimum tractive effort and energy effectivity in fields and on the highway.
Agri Professional variations of the 2 new Loadall telehandlers could have the 50kph DualTech VT for time-saving journeys between yard and subject, and to and from distant units of buildings on bigger farms and estates.
The sooner road-speed potential may assist the Agri Professional machines to extra simply hold tempo with contractor lime and muck spreading groups when shifting from one location to a different.
Along with working in rear-wheel drive on the highway for optimum acceleration and towing traction, the Agri Professional’s driveline robotically engages four-wheel drive when the brakes are utilized to make sure the utmost tyre/floor contact patch for shortest stopping distances.
Air trailer braking is a factory-installed possibility, together with JCB’s all-new IntelliAssist, a set of automated increase and attachment controls, and different hydraulic features designed to ease the operator’s workload, and the brand new IntelliWeigh built-in load weighing system.
Additionally, JCB plans to supply Agri Xtra and Agri Professional variations of the Loadall 546-70 and 555-70 with Sway Management as an possibility, a machine levelling system that makes use of a double-acting hydraulic cylinder connected to the chassis and entrance axle.
Managed from the Command Plus cab, the system allows operators to regulate the machine to a safer vertical place on a cross-slope or uneven floor to maintain it secure when the increase is raised and prolonged.
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