The year 2025 marks thirty years since JCB ventured into the telescopic wheel loader market, focused mainly at the agricultural and waste handling markets, writes Matt Pinnington of Haynes Agricultural.
Since then the name JCB has become synonymous with the image of British farming, whether it be on the silage clamp, in the dairy or loading the drill, but as the face of the industry changes, so must those who supply it- and JCB has taken on the challenge with customary gusto.
Vineyards are one of the few places you wouldn’t expect to see a yellow and black liveried machine, but with a width of just 1.56m the new TM110 telescopic wheel loader will sit neatly in a 2.2m row, and would be perfect for moving dolav bins in and out of rows, or tipping into presses at harvest.
The machine’s design takes after its larger siblings; engine at the rear to act as counterweight, cab or canopy platform towards the centre of the machine – the pivot point is directly in the centre, providing a stable and predictable turn, which means that the safe working full height payload is 1,100kg even at full chassis articulation.
The boom is mounted low down on the front half of the machine for excellent forward visibility and has a maximum lift height of 3.5m for lifting items onto mezzanines, or for stacking empty bins out of season. The headstock is a standardised Euro hitch, meaning a plethora of box turners, pallet forks and buckets are available from your favoured supplier, or transferable from most tractor loaders. Auxiliary hydraulic flow is standard, and easily capable of spinning a box turner – with adjustable flow control to fine tune performance at the front end.
Providing the horsepower for all this versatility is a 50hp Stage V engine with no AdBlue requirements, driving the wheels through a 30kph hydrostatic transmission- both axles are equipped with
diff-lock for use in slippery harvests.
The seating area can either be an open canopy with roof, front and rear screens, or as an option a heated, fully enclosed cab can be specified. Next to the suspended seat, transmission and hydraulic controls fall easily to hand on a joystick used on the larger machines from the range, enabling forward to reverse shuttle and boom operations to be carried out without the operator’s hand leaving it. LED driving and work lights are standard to illuminate the darkest of barns.
The TM110 was revealed in the UK at the LAMMA Show on the 15th and 16th of January, with machines available for demonstration and orders across the South from Haynes Agricultural.
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