JCB has a long heritage of making high horsepower, lower weight loading shovels squarely aimed at the agri sector under the iconic Farm Master name — from the 410 in the late 1980s to today’s latest flagship, the monster 457S. Unveiled last year, the 457S is a big unit to meet the demands of equally big foragers when it comes to packing grass and maize.
Aim high
For its agricultural wheeled loaders, JCB does not offer the classic loader boom with central Z-bar linkage; instead it uses the so-called HT boom,
