On Test: JCB TM280S telescopic wheel loader – a complete, compact package

The farm handler sits at the core of daily routines on many livestock farms, James Huyton takes JCB’s latest TM articulated offering on test to see how it performs

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JCB TM280S has a 2,750kg lift capacity with a 4.8m lift height.
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JCB TM280S has a 2,750kg lift capacity with a 4.8m lift height.

The farm handler sits at the core of daily routines on many livestock farms, so we took JCB’s latest TM articulated offering on test to see how it performs

Adding a new model to the market with some well-established and popular stablemates, the JCB TM280S makes some considerable promises to its performance and abilities to fill a gap in the Staffordshire...

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