2017 International Forest Industries Magazines April May 2017 | Page 19

LOGGING & BIOMASS NEWS
Intelligent Boom Control available for
John Deere 1910G forwarder
John Deere’s IBC - the Intelligent
Boom Control – has become a
major milestone in forwarder
technology and has been extremely
well received by forest machine
contractors. Now, this feature
is also available for John Deere
1910G - the biggest forwarder in
the company’s line-up – and its
powerful CF8 boom.
Since its i ntroduction in 2013,
IBC has been available for the CF5,
CF7 and CF7S booms used in the
small and medium-size John Deere
forwarders. As an example of its
popularity, more than 80% of the
forwarder models delivered to the
Nordic markets are equipped with
IBC.
With the IBC function, the
operator no longer needs to
control each independent boom
joint movement separately.
Instead, the operator controls
the boom tip directly and the IBC
automatically controls the lift,
slew and the extension of the
boom, based on the location of
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the grapple. The boom is accurate
and easy to operate. This increases
significantly productivity of the
boom, and eventually the number
of loads per each work shift.
The IBC system also increases
the lifetime of the boom through its
electrical end-damping for all the
main boom movement directions.
The system dampens the cylinder
end movements softly and stops
strong blow-like loads in the end
positions which makes driving
smoother and also improves the
durability of the boom. In addition,
a pre-programmed mode for
unloading, where the strong jib and
main boom movements are used
more, speeds up and makes the
unloading easy and comfortable.
IBC 2.0 further improves
precision at longer reaches
The recently launched IBC 2.0
improves the precision of the
grapple, especially at long reaches.
The version update is available for
all previous forwarders equipped
with IBC function.
Intelligent Boom Control is an
innovation which not only makes
the boom operation fast, easy and
accurate, but most importantly
increases the production and
helps to attract and to retain the
best operators. The boom control
system is exclusively available for
John Deere forwarders.
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