very informative, never knew these were so advanced

That jcb is a far cry from the old matbro's and sanderson's. Cracking video 🤟

Fantastico, great review George:):)

Nice demo George love the jcb range keep it up n do well

Going back about 13years l posted a video of me loading trailer with a JCB Loadall 530-70. The trailer was on a JCB Fastrac with paper waste destined for fields on a farm near Wigan if l recall correctly. On the same site was JCB 520-50. Both were brilliant machines. I have aldo driven a JCB 416-S loading shovel which was a grand bit of kit too. Also on my loader list is Manitou which l liked and more recently and every day at the moment l drive a Merlo P40. I prefer the JCB machines to be honest. Good video young man.

i had one on demo the other day , it blew my bloody socks off what a weapon of a machine

A very nice machine. Thanks for the review.

Thanks George great vid sir.. Take care...

Good morning George, I have just watched this video of yourself operating this JCB agripro telehandler and found it quite interesting, as I can remember driving the very first series of these machines back in 1989 and I thought at the time that this is the way forward for larger farms to load/unload stack/unstack and of course do all the other jobs on and around the farm that is required and now we have moved forward 30+ years and these machines are still basically the same but the controls are different as you only have a single joystick 🕹 to do the main operations of the boom but I guess it’s logical progression in the way things are done now to make are working lives a lot less stressful. I am also looking forward to seeing you and his Lordship back together doing a more in depth conversation about new or old machinery that has come or has gone the way of the DoDo and until next time TaRa for a bit.

Great video George

I drove an older JCB one of the first with the electro joysticks and found when you needed to shake the buckets it would be slow and hard to operate. We just bought a new one only the 3 tone machine which has a shake button but it really is not needed as the joystick is responsive enough to shake the bucket out. Thanks for the video

Great video and great review

Great video

Great review, excellent machine - don't understand why JCB have a problem with black paint!

Good review George 👍 cudnt believe it's done over 1300 hrs already 🤔👍👍

Hi George Nice Video Thanks

Good review enjoyed TA TA

Good report looks a good Machine. My brother could use one of these on his place.👍

Great vid George can't fault jcb machines

There’s a Fastrac with your name on it on Farmer Phils channel George 👍🏼

How are driving lights doing and the work lights on the 542 in all directions, George?

nice rig

Would a bale wrapper (plastic film) work for the farm, so the bales maintain shape and are also weather proof ❓

Our 2010 jcb can be gutsy on diesal especialy in the winter when it was start and stop alot of the time

We had are power cable on the boom ran in side it through a oil pipe because we us to have the problem of the track moping the wires and touch wood it’s never done it since

Up to 20kph not 16. The track as you call it is now been fitted inside the booms on all machines to save being caught or damaged

Seems like a great machine. If you're happy with it look no further.

The sawmill near me had a jcb, think it had about 15000 hours on it, they replaced it with a merlo, the lad that's on it said in 6 months work it's only managed 2 weeks of work without breaking down. He hates it

@gregshearer423

3 жыл бұрын

That’s unlucky had merlo where a use to work and they were pretty much bullet proof

You have the same portequip trailer as me

George, might sound like a daft question, with the dual vt box, how does it behave when loaded, and you hit a hill that drags you down below 18k or whatever? Do you lose the power shift, IE does it revert to hydrostatic, and then crawl awfully? I’ve some awful steep hills round here, would agri pro spec hack it, or would a lower spec, but full power shift machine be better suited?

@torquingpoint5057

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Sion, it'll pull a heavily loaded trailer well in the hydrostatic part of the box. Although we haven't got much in the way of hills round here. It would be very similar to when a powershift gets down in the lower gears and it drops out of torque lock up they lose all of there go. Hope that helps.

@sionmurtha917

2 жыл бұрын

@@torquingpoint5057 thanks George

This channel is incomplete minus the Mucker, hoping for near future collaboration, sooner not later, & that isn't a negative reflection on you George. Two heads better than one, as the old adage goes. ADD a be well to ta ta .

@LordMuck

3 жыл бұрын

We've already got some stuff planned Bill 😉

@matthewshaw3718

3 жыл бұрын

Will Ben be back?

@torquingpoint5057

3 жыл бұрын

Ben has a family which must come first in the current situation. When he has time he'll pop up here and there no doubt but we will also have some special guests joking us along the way not to mention the chance for some of you to join us while filming various episodes.

I'm 64 and was raised on a farm, brakes and lights - is this a new idea ?

George how do you find the boom suspension we have 2 542-70 agri pros and boom suspension is horrible and hard a slight bump in the road makes the machine bounce like made we've had jcb look at them both twice and they say there is nothing wrong with it but compared to our old 67 plate 536-70 agri pros they are complete rubbish

@torquingpoint5057

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Steve, must be something wrong as ours is fine and as good as the previous 531-70. Obviously the more weight on the boom the better it operates.

@steveeveratt9816

3 жыл бұрын

@@torquingpoint5057 we only have forks on ours but our old 536-70 would travel nice and you could see the boom floating whilst traveling on rough ground but the 542-70 bounces like mad slaming the forks about going to get jcb out to them again they've been out twice and said nothing wrong tho

It APPEARS the trailer has single acting dump cylinder, but the machine can operate a double acting cylinder @ the rear, ❓ Is that correct ❓👀

How many hours a year do you do in it

@fusion7865

3 жыл бұрын

They probably put nearly all them hours on themselves because they had it new last year

I understand that red diesel is lower quality !! Would you agree?