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Keep up to date with our coverage of loading shovels large and small for bale handling, loading muck, filling silage clamps, loading sugar beet trucks and cleaner-loaders with machines from Case, Caterpillar, Claas, JCB, Kramer, Manitou, New Holland, Schaffer, Tobroco, Volvo and Weidemann.

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LOADING SHOVELS

Claas Torion 537e gets battery-electric powertrain

Battery power has reached Claas' Liebherr-built Torion 537, signified by its "e" designation and flash of blue across the bonnet. The zero-emissions mini shovel has a 32.2kWh pack as standard,…

LOADING SHOVELS

Taylor Attachments takes on production of MDE grass forks

The giant-size grass forks and other agricultural products produced by MDE Machinery will in future be manufactured by Taylor Attachments at its farm-based factory near Bristol. Taylor is best known…

LOADING SHOVELS

ScotGrass: Clamp-climbing shovels put on a show

JCB’s 457 was one of four machines working the Slacks Farm pit, exerting its 20t-plus mass on incoming grass. It remains top dog in the Staffordshire maker’s range, and the…

LOADING SHOVELS

New mid-sized Torions to join Claas loader line-up

A trio of mid-sized loaders will join the Claas Torion line-up from 2023. Filling a gap in the range, the new models replicate the updates made to the flagship 1913…

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LOADING SHOVELS

Driver’s view: The good and bad of JCB’s 435S loading shovel

JCB’s self-proclaimed “king of the clamp” underwent some subtle surgery last winter, giving it more power, more torque and a nifty new lever-steer system. An early example of this latest…

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Driver's view: Norfolk contractors' Claas Torion 1812 shovel

We get the lowdown on the Claas Torion 1812 loading shovel run by Norfolk contracting outfit Spring Farm Partnership. A pair of long-in-the-tooth loading shovels – a Volvo L110 and…

LOADING SHOVELS

Driver's view: Starfitts Farms' New Holland W170D shovel

JCB might be the dominant force in the loading shovel market, but New Holland is intent on muscling in. We get the lowdown on the W170D loading shovel run by…

LOADING SHOVELS

Driver's view: Swinnerton Agricultural Contractors’ JCB 435S

We get the lowdown on the 435S loading shovel run by Shropshire contractor Mikey Swinnerton. Mikey Swinnerton runs a contracting business that centres around the needs of dairy farmers and anaerobic digesters…

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