JCB
JCB builds machines that do not look like what everyone else is building, and that is usually the point. The single-arm PowerBoom on their skid steers means one side door instead of climbing over the bucket. The Fastrac is a full suspension tractor that will run 40 mph down the road legally. The Loadall telehandler reaches places a wheel loader cannot and lifts loads a skid steer will not.
We stock and service JCB out of Fruitland and Jerome, and we will bring a machine to your place so you can run it before you decide. That is the only real way to tell whether a telehandler beats the loader tractor you have been making do with.
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Loadall Telescopic Handlers
The Loadall is the machine most of our JCB customers start with, and it is usually the one that changes how the rest of the operation runs. One machine stacks hay four high, loads a mixer wagon, handles pallets off a truck, and cleans a lot. Agri, Agri Super and Agri Pro configurations cover everything from a two-man outfit to a commodity barn running two shifts.
The reach is what sells it. A skid steer puts a bale where the skid steer can drive. A Loadall puts it where you need it, from where the machine already is. On a dairy that is the difference between a feeding route and a feeding problem.
Fastrac Tractors
JCB built the first fully suspended high speed tractor in 1990 and nobody has really copied it. Full suspension front and rear, four equal-size wheels, disc brakes on all four corners, and a cab mounted in the middle instead of over the back axle.
What that means in Idaho: if you are hauling manure, moving grain carts, pulling a tanker, or running a spreader between fields that are nine miles apart, you spend a lot less of the day in transit and your back notices. For custom operators billing by the acre, road speed is margin.
Skid Steers and Compact Track Loaders
JCB skid steers and track loaders use a single boom arm on one side, which leaves the other side open for a full-size door. You step in at ground level. You are not climbing over an attachment in the mud in February, and visibility to the bucket is genuinely better than a two-arm machine.
The Teleskid takes it further and adds telescoping reach to a skid steer frame, so one machine digs below grade and still reaches into a truck bed.
TM Articulated Telescopic Loaders
The TM series splits the difference between a wheel loader and a telehandler. It articulates in the middle for a tight turning circle in a feed alley or a shed, and it telescopes for reach and dump height. Dairies and feedlots working in confined spaces tend to end up here.
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