TULARE, Calif. – The Case W14 Feedlot Special has toiled for decades on farms and feedlots across North America.
Its replacement has arrived.
The new Commodity King machines share similarities with their predecessors. They are able to handle dust and have a grapple and high volume bucket.
However, the new 21 Series loaders are also easier on the environment and the fuel bill.
The three largest new loaders, 721F, 821F and 921F, are all Tier 4 emissions standard compliant, relying on selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and its urea additive.
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They come in 179, 211 and 242 engine horsepower and place the driver on the tail of the articulated loaders.
They are designated F class for their SCR use. Two of the new machines, the 721 and E series 21, are packaged for agricultural applications and are called Commodity King. The latter is without a Tier 4 compliant engine and SCR.
“It is also set up to accept joy stick steering. That is getting to be a popular item for ag applications,” said Tom McLaughlin of Case, who debuted the new machines in the middle of North America’s most dairy cow dense municipality, Tulare County in California, during the World Ag Expo farm show.
“We see a lot of dairy farms liking that option.”
The rear axle differentials are open for manoeuvreability on hard surfaces, such as feed loading areas and dairy barns.
“We seal the cooler areas to make sure that air passing through those areas must pass through a screen filter first,” he said.
“That takes out the large particles. The passages between the cooler fins are at least that big, so they don’t get material in that will get stuck in the cooling system.”
Case is offering a variety of tools for the new loaders, including bale spikes, pallet forks and scaled buckets for measuring feed.
Light material buckets of up to 5.5 sq. yards for the 721F and 4.5 yards for the 621E Commodity Kings are available for handling chop.
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