FAQs

JCB’s Powerpack has been built using high-quality components for a long service life. By choosing a high standard of battery, we are able to warrant them for a 5-year period – with an expected life of more than 4,000 daily cycles (over 10 years of typical use).

Though we are centred in the UK, JCB is a global name and a global company: our factories are based in both the UK and in India, and we have over 100 dealers worldwide! With over 50 models in our range, JCB is one of the largest generator manufacturers. Not only that - we’re also proud to be one of the only generator manufacturers to assemble generators using our own engines.

Yes, JCB’s hydraulic breakers are designed to fit on our compact and heavy excavators machine ranges. However, it’s important to note that JCB hydraulic breakers for excavators should only be paired with a JCB excavator that has sufficient load capacity. Correctly combining a JCB excavator hydraulic breaker with one of our compact and heavy excavators depends on whether you’re looking for a breaker from our contractor or professional ranges. Overall, if the excavator is too light, it may become unstable under the load and fall over so it’s important to pair the two machines appropriately.

Due to the nature of the work carried out with a hydraulic breaker, wear and tear is guaranteed. However, this doesn’t mean your JCB hydraulic breaker can’t be properly maintained to ensure it works effectively for a long time. It just means you should undertake a full inspection of your hydraulic breaker every time you use it to identify any potential issues. These can include wear and tear and loose fittings. It’s also important to ensure you’re operating it correctly. For example, by monitoring your machine’s hoses, greasing it correctly with the correct grease, and breaking at 90 degrees to the surface.

For more detail on how to correctly operate a JCB hydraulic breaker, you can read the operating manual or take a breaker training course (ask your local dealer for more information).  

How a hydraulic breaker works is by applying hydraulic pressure to the hydraulic cylinder. This causes the piston to move back and forth, creating a powerful impact force that is transmitted to the chisel, causing it to strike the material. These repeated strikes then fracture the material into smaller pieces, ready for dismantling. As a result, hydraulic breakers are commonly used for demolition projects, as well as in construction and mining.

When operating our range of hydraulic breakers for excavators correctly there is no limit to how long they can be used overall. However, if they’re being used continuously, they should not be used for longer than 15 seconds at a time. If the ground doesn’t break or you need to break more ground, to operate the breaker correctly you should lift and move it to another spot every 8-10 seconds. This method not only increases productivity, meaning you don’t have to use your hydraulic breaker for as long, but it’s also much safer.

As a renowned broker, JCB Insurance offers a complete broking facility to all areas of the construction industry, including plant hire. This means we can take care of plant and machinery insurance for any make or model of machine - whether it's a single piece of equipment or a multi-million pound fleet.

If you'd like to request a long or short-term JCB plant hire insurance quote, just click here or give us a call on 0800 1412877 for more information.

When it comes to how is hydrogen fuel made, it is currently produced at scale around the world for a number of industrial processes, including refining, fertiliser production, steel manufacturing, and glass production. So if you’re thinking ‘how is hydrogen made,’ production is via several methods, and hydrogen is typically denoted a colour dependent on the method used.

Green hydrogen is produced in an electrolyser by splitting water (H2O) into hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O), using renewable electricity. This process is called electrolysis. The hydrogen is then compressed, and transported for use in our machines.

JCB is proving out the process with customers in the UK. Hydrogen is produced at Tyseley Park in Birmingham, and then transported to site where JCB machines are at work. All we need now is more Tyseley’s to provide zero carbon fuel to machines working in all corners of the world.