JCB — not a day without work!

For over eight years, AgroCentre has been supplying Russian farmers with a complete range of JCB telescopic loaders, from compact caterpillar and wheeled mini-loaders to giants capable of lifting a load of up to 5 tonnes. Outstanding productivity and manoeuvrability won them  farmers’ respect in the Black Earth Zone, Central District and the Urals.

For a year now, on his farm in the Kurgan oblast Victor Ivanov has been using the JCB 535-95 telescopic loader he purchased from AgroCentreZakharovo. Over this period, the machine has run 700 hours without a hitch. According to the head of the farm, the loader never stands a day without work. It performs all kinds of loading and unloading operations, replacing several machines. The telescopic loader uses a grain bucket and pallet forks.

“The JCB 535-95 is an all-purpose loader,” says Victor Ivanov, head of the farm. “It does not only farming jobs like transshipment and clamping of grain, and loading of bagged seeds, but also snow removal, construction work and miscellaneous lifting operations. The loader is very manoeuvrable. Thanks to its duck walk capability, the machine’s turning radius is smaller, which enables it to move easily in narrow passages. The JCB loader does the job twice faster than its rivals. This saves time and money. The machine quality is superb. If problems arise, we turn to the AgroCentreZakharovo servicing engineers, who are prepared to give us consultations round the clock on any operation-related issue. I think we’ve made the right choice!”

The JCB 535-95 loader with a three-section jib lifts up to 3.5 tonnes to up to 9 metres. It copes well with such jobs as fodder delivery, manure removal and loading and unloading of grains and organic fertilisers. This telescopic loader is irreplaceable in handling silage clamps.  

The loader engine is located on the side, thereby easing maintenance and increasing the lift capacity by shifting the jib rearward. The reinforced jib structure distributes the stress over the entire jib length, thus reducing fatigue and preventing likely breakage in the nose part.

The loader is easily controlled by a dedicated joystick. Thanks to the low position of the dashboard in the cabin and the large window, the operator has a good field of view and can fully monitor the operations.

“Nothing is left to chance in JCB loaders,” says Dmitry Silantyev, sales manager of the Kurgan branch of AgroCentreZakharovo. “The convenient position of transmission subassemblies creates ideal conditions for repair. The sonic and visual sensors instantly inform the operator about condition of the engine and transmission.”

Having gone a way from a humble family enterprise manufacturing agricultural tipping trailers in 1945 to a world giant, the JCB Company steadily develops and introduces innovative solutions. The company built its first telescopic loader (520 model) in 1977. Today, JCB is the world leader in production of telescopic jib loaders. Over the years, the company has created a sophisticated network of dealerships, consisting of 750 dealers with over 2,000 sales and servicing centres. Twenty-two facilities of the company are located on four continents. JCB has its own spare parts depot in Moscow which makes it possible to ship spares to a dealer at short notice. In 2010, JCB raised the economic efficiency and productivity of its machines to a new record level, turning out an Eco series of machines. In the UK, the company opened an academy for training engineers who maintain the tradition of constantly introducing innovations.