More like 30 years for dual-drive 🙂 I tried a 4CX with dual-drive in 2010, but it was modified by the tiltrotator manufacturer (I think) since JCB couldn't provide it. It was used by it's owner on one of the projects I was on.
They are great machines with very low consumption working with the arm. But it is almost impossible to beat an excavator between 4.5 and 9 tons combined with a small transport truck.
Pretty good…. a knuckle on the dipper would be a good future add-on for highways mowing etc, it would help with stability as the dipper could be in line with the machine with the boom to the side. 🙂👍
Technology is only as good as the ongoing support, nice to see stuff like not spinning around to change dig positions, great productivity enhancement but I'm a bit wary of electronic everything and the dirty environment mix😮
More electronics to go wrong, as an owner operator I have had jcb and would never go back to them, let down so much on promises! 180% are a thing of the past,360% are here to stay, no making mud, sit in one place and work
You're so right....my mate ran his own plant firm....3cx electronics crap...I hired one for a day....wouldn't change gear, wouldn't shift up until I went over a bump in road....then dropped into 4th...he got rid of most of his 180s no one wants them....
@@samfordham684If they have to be taxed for road use, they’re taxed in a class called ‘special vehicle’. This class of vehicles isn’t allowed to tow. I have one on the farm and years ago you could tax them as tractors, but this was changed, and they can no longer be classed as a tractor, unless the rear backhoe is removable, like some old MF’s were. £165.00 I believe for the year.
Combine performance starts with wide feederhouse which flattens the crop mat and makes it easier to thrash crop mat > Huge hp savings with that one fact? Ivt powered rotor is somewhat questionable for sheer thruput ability for oil driven things have a big parasitic powerloss Dna just like the last axial combines? Will probably use huge fuel amounts big grain tank is a one positive? The power saving things they have done like change motor direction, no grate seperater ? The less pumps for chaff spreader< these changes seem to make a power saving difference on paper but what does this translate too on the feild in tough conditions? Hope it Rocks?
My only thought is exposed cabling but huge fan of the "driverless loader" concept absolutely with remote loading and unloading ability as well. The industry is filled with crazy high priced in some instances big time no good junk from an individual operator pov. Conceptually the tracked loader skid steer is definitely not that.
