hey what's up guys it's Kyle and I've got Chris here Chris is with JCB and
Chris use this is your project this is this kit is mine I am the product
manager for skid steers and compact track loader now if you guys have been
following me for any sort of time you know that I love Mike a bonus skid
loader I saw and so JCB reached out to me and they said hey we think that you
would love the Telus kid I think it would be super efficient and it would
make your job on site a lot easier and that's what you're here to show me that
all the features about the Telus kid and then you guys are gonna stay tuned to
the channel and watch because I'm going to be building this project behind us
and then I'm gonna try to accumulate all the pros and cons and what I think about
this is specifically for us as post frame builders but then also to try to
help you guys if you're interested if this is on your radar for maybe a
potential piece of equipment my kind of pros and cons what I think and you know
how it really relates to what we do specifically so Chris once you take us
through the features because I know the things people are already saying in the
video what they think about this yep okay so this is our track version of the
JCB Telus kid it weighs twelve thousand six hundred and fifteen pounds it has an
ROC while it sits right here of three thousand six hundred ninety five pounds
extended it's right around sixteen hundred pounds or 2306 it so ROC steno
or the rated operating company so just making sure everybody knows that that's
at thirty five percent for tracks and it's fifty four wheels okay alright so
the first thing we're going to talk about is is the offset of the calf so if
you look at the front of the machine you'll notice that the cab is offset
from the chassis and then everything underneath it is a streamlined down the
center so what this does is the gear pump the transmission the engine is all
streamlined to one side to give you a 50/50 weight distribution on the arm
you'll see that there's a guide cup hidden behind the boom here and what
this does is if you were to hit anything with your bucket while you're moving
material the force of it would actually travel the length of the chassis so
you're saying this guy back here this cup right here okay and
then it has an H frame design underneath the cab and that helps that keeps it
rigid so the force travels the length of chassis and not on the arm so what
you're saying is basically because I know this what you guys are thinking
this thing with an offset arm yep this is going to twist with repetitive force
but what this is doing is is helping is helping that and then we'll get to the
arm twisting and here in a second okay and the offset cab that's gonna help
with weight distribution so if you're on a slope or something like that one of
the questions I get asked is will the machine roll because of the weight of
the boom what this does is it helps with the weight it distribute it evenly
throughout the machine so you don't have to worry about that we move down to the
quick hitch the quick hitch is fully enclosed our original model we just had
a cover on it this one is fully closed everything's on the inside you do have
access plates on the top backside in the side of the wicked to get to it if you
need to do any service for it if you look right here you see a red indicator
and what this does that let you know if the attachment is in the locked or
unlocked position so what is this going to do down is in the locked position
it'll come up and there's a button inside the cab you push it it'll come up
and to let you know that the attachment is unlocked we can better visibility
straight to it you only have to look at one indicator unique to JCB are our wear
plates that are located right here on your quick attachment what this does is
it doesn't sit directly on it it sits on these pads and what it does is over time
hooking up different attachments you'll start to damage your quick attachment
but what we did is we add wear pads so you can get four uses they start to wear
down you unbolt them rotate them around once those start to wear out you can
flip them over and use it again so you get four uses of it before yeah how many
times before you're flipping and rotating it depends on how many times
you're taking attachments on and off have you guys done any testing on how
many times we have is we haven't replaced them yet on any of our machines
and this comes standard on all our models other than the 215 what year did
you start putting that on around 2016 okay so it's been a couple
years anyway and nobody's had any issue no issues okay alright so we'll move
over to the tilt cylinder here so original design it used to sit right
here so you had to actually lift the boom up and place your safety strut in
it before you can tilt the cab in the forward position for serviceability
because we moved it over and put a cover on it it no longer interferes with the
cab so you can actually tilt it forward while the arm is in the down position
which obviously is safer so what we'll do is we'll move over to the other side
of the machine okay you'll see auxilary couplers these are standard and these
ones are your high flow so what that means for the operator is when the boom
extends out which gives you eight feet of forward reach you can only use
standard flow attachments if you're using a high flow mower or anything like
that you're gonna use them up here but you can't expand the arm out your safety
okay what's the flow on these Chris so you
have your standard and high flow so the high flow is the max I flow for this is
33 gallons per minute okay you do have a route pressure relief
valve right here and all you do is pull on it in case you know pressures built
up in your auxiliary lines and a fourteen pin connector for
multi-function attachments a JCB recently we no longer offer any radial
machines now we're all vertical - the telus kit and the reason is if you look
at our brochure it says it's radio and vertical and the reason it's ready
radial and vertical lift is because the arm extends out and gives you that
vertical reach radial lift your furthest reach on radial so it kind of rotates
out like this yeah so your furthest forward reach is going to be somewhere
right right at chest level for the operator in the cab and then vertical
the furthest reach is at the bottom and at the top it's the same distance
forward because the arm extends it gives you both of that okay good for loading
trucks loading trucks digging bowls anything because you can keep it
everything in a loading hay in a barn everything
one of the design changes that we have on here is our double taper pin so this
boss right here is 40 millimeters larger than original design and it has a double
taper pin and what it is is the pin comes together and the bolt goes through
so if the arm tries to shift it actually will rotate the pin inside there and
that's what keeps it when people ask about is the arm gonna sway they're
gonna twist and then the great thing about the arm is it has 20% more steel
than a two-armed skid-steer does and when you combine two arms yes the amount
of steel yep it's 20% more in this and the greatest thing about it is it has a
lifetime warranty on it I mean do you guys do that purposely because you knew
that that was gonna be the biggest caveat for people like hey it's going to
twist well oh yeah we'll give you a lifetime warranty yeah we know we know
the booms not gonna go anywhere okay what is the fail point then does
everything hit like where is the weakest point on this if there was a weak point
on it I would say it's on the back of the tower and and somebody has asked me
it before and obviously you can take anything that you think is
indestructible Brayboy yeah it's only rated for X yeah and you guys are more
than capable of doing it correct okay as you can see we have a 74 horsepower JCB
ecomax engine so it requires no after treatment no DPF no def so pretty much a
machine check your fluids put your diesel in and you're ready to go do
whatever you need to know is that because the tier 4 final is like 75 and
under yep I know exactly what that okay alright so we stayed just below it so as
you can see all your filters are easily accessible they're all located to the
rear of the machine you have your dipstick right here sight
gauge for your hydraulic oil you have an isolator key and this will kill the
power to the machine so if you're operating or trying to service the
machine and you're in the engine you don't want someone starting it up this
machine does come standard with reversing fan that goes off every 15
minutes okay so you're in a high dust area every 15 minutes it'll reverse the
fan and blow all the debris out now if you're in a
really high dust area you can look do everything in the cab as well manually
so you don't even - yes it yeah so if you need it more than 15 minutes you can
just push a button here I know that because your attempts going off and
depends on where you're working at you know one guy that uses it a lot is in a
peanut farm he's got a bunch of dust and everything and he loves doing it
manually interesting yeah throw in our Factory in Savannah Georgia we got a
saying that's on our viewing deck and we call it one safest skid steer and the
reason why we call it that is because of our side door entry so as you reach over
and open up the doors you can see how much room do you have to get inside a
lot of operators that have bought this unit love it because if they're going
pallet work or anything like that they can hop outside of the machine there's
no risk of climbing in and out of the front like competitors you're not
climbing over slippery attachments or unsupported boo or underneath yeah in
the and you don't have to have it at a certain level to get out of the machine
yeah so we've never done that have we Greg no
safety first you have seat belt on your right hip do you have to wear seat belt
I'm just asking would always worry we always believe in safety now somebody
did ask question a couple days ago and said will a machine operate if the seat
belt is not if that's the question you're asking I already know that answer
because I've already moved this up no never seen one yes well operate without
yeah now the to safety sport is the left hand pod and the right lap bar do have
to be down at any point during operation let's say you know you have some bumpy
ground going on either one of these jumps up a little bit it's automatically
gonna put your machine apart by these tracks are these tracks as a standard
they are standard what is what is it gonna be so cross the border yeah cross
them more this is only track that that we offer and it's because it's it's like
I tell people they're good for snow and they're good for mud but they're not
great okay so yes obviously everything yeah obviously you can put you know the
SI lug pattern if you want to you know go through mud
or something like that all you gotta do is just grab the top hinge push oh sweet
well you got you gear up on transmission your own BB if you need to get to parts
of the front of the engine you can contain as well yeah I won't be getting
back here for nothing I build barns I don't work yeah
what about things like fuel economy I mean like I know it depends on how much
how public is a fuel tank in this it's about 24 gal 24 gallons okay
at a 70 foot horse it's not gonna be you know drinking it too hard no that's no
one thing I'd like to talk about on the boom is we kind of stole the design from
the telehandler which is where we got our name till escape from the boom when
it extends out the steel on the top is actually rolled and it's not welded it's
welded only on the bottom so instead of having a four box weld you have only two
wells which also increases the strength
yeah so I mean whenever anybody says how can that one arm be strong enough you'd
have to be like well tell handlers I mean that's kind of the same thing yeah
exactly interesting very very cool well we're
definitely definitely very excited to put this to work and just if nothing
else man I you know it's super cool it's a great idea
mono you know out of the way this is one arm this side entrance
and I guess yeah really appreciate you coming out for this and kind of taking
us through this and I can't wait to put it to work and see how it really
performs you know one question for you yeah when this is out all the way did
you tell me what the capacity yeah so all the way out gives you eight feet
afford reach hinge pin height of 13 feet three inches while it's retracted what's
the capacity though of the lifting capacity retracted okay is 3,600 95
pounds you know and fully extended out its
1,600 pounds okay and that's that 35% of what if I put my boom that I have at the
end of that thing that goes out another 20 foot then you're gonna have to do the
math on what it let's be able to lift I don't do math we'll probably just stick
something just try it anyway and see where yeah it goes but that will be
awesome all right man all right thank you so much I don't Robin put it to put
it to work and and I'll let you guys know what I think about it