Company Profile • JCB PotholePRO
skid steer hitch. The planer is 600mm wide, with up to 1.3m of side-shift adjustment. This allows the operator to plane a full carriageway from the kerb, without repositioning the machine. Hydraulic tilt and depth control provide a consistent depth for larger patches.
‘Multi-tool’, mounted on an X12 Steelwrist tilt-rotator. The ‘Multi-tool’ comprises of two attachments, a dedicated hydraulic cropper and a sweeper/bucket. The 600mm cropping tool eliminates the need for floor saws or hydraulic breakers, providing a squared off, clean cut to the repair area.
loaded directly into a support truck for rapid removal from site. The PotholePro can prepare up to 250m2 of roadway in a single shift, or 5,000m3 per month and allows the contractor or local authority to cut the defect, crop the edges and clean the hole with one machine – mechanising jobs traditionally done by pothole gangs and delivering up to a 50% cut in daily costs. Safety is also improved as the gang does not have to complete the hand held cutting and breaking, eliminating the risk of hand arm vibration syndrome (HAVS). The machine’s launch follows a vow from Chancellor Rishi Sunak last November to invest
The operator then rotates the boom head to bring a 1.2m wide sweeper/ bucket into use, to clean up the pothole area, eliminating
The multi-tool comprises of two attachments: a dedicated hydraulic cropper and a sweeper/ bucket
the requirement for a separate sweeper truck. Material lifted by the sweeper/bucket can be
The machine’s TAB two-piece boom is fitted with the JCB
56 • FEBRUARY 2021 • Plant Planet
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