Make your kit work harder for you• Feature
‘Make your kit work harder for you’ watling JCB get hands on with milton keynes dig day Watling JCB, one of the largest JCB sole franchises in the world, teamed up with Smith Construction in July to bring the next in their series of Dig Days to Milton Keynes. The event gave heavy equipment owners and operators a chance to get ‘behind the sticks’ of Watling JCB’s wide range of machines and try each one for themselves. Star players of the day included the X range of excavators and JCB’s E-Tec mini excavator. Originally launched in March 2018 with the 210 X and 220 X crawler excavators, JCB’s X Range received three new additions in 2019. The
new machines, all in the 13-16 tonne class, were launched publicly in June at this year’s Plantworx. The 131X, 140X and 150X are each purpose built for groundworking specialists. Since the public launch of these new tracked excavators, interest has been growing among fans looking to add JCB machinery to their fleets. The 140 X Tracked Excavator certainly proved popular at Watling JCB’s July event. The 15-tonne
machine, which is a direct replacement for the popular JS130, has been upgraded in several ways. The aim of the developments is to increase efficiency, strength, operator comfort, and performance. The engine has been upgraded to a more efficient 81kW JCB EcoMAX tier 4/Stage V engine. The EcoMAX engines have been tested to 110, 000 hours in 70 machines across a range of tough →
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