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YES, WE'VE REBRANDED!

What’s changing?

We’ve moved away from our legacy name and are no longer known as JB Attachments. Since 1 October 2016, we are officially Calibre Contracting Equipment.

Why are we moving forward as Calibre Contracting Equipment?

Calibre reflects a company that has recognised the ever changing, highly competitive and demanding environment in this new age of infrastructure development. Our focus has now shifted to bringing the performance and economics of contracting equipment working tools into a modern age. This has been a three year undertaking for us eventuating to significant changes in the way we design, produce, distribute and service our products.

The emphasis on innovation is greater than ever as we look to make inroads on our vision to deliver quality solutions, to excavator operators, never seen before. As a company, we’ve delved into a journey of exploration with the new robotic technological field of co-robotics or collaborative robots – robots designed to work in partnership with human operators. This journey has allowed us insight into the relationship expert excavator operators hold with machinery. Greater awareness for the deep cognitive “sense and feel” an excavator operator has when working with attachments opens up a world of innovation possibilities. The Research & Development department at Calibre have worked hard over the past few years to develop state of the art products that further promote earthmoving attachments as assets in their own right alongside excavators. Our high quality engineering and customer focused attitude ensures the design and production of our new products centralise around user experience and task performance that is second to none.

In the coming months, you’ll see us introduce a new range of Calibre attachments and various combinations of attachments that enhance, assist and improve the output of the operator. These attachments are a direct result of our implementation of the principles of co-robotics. The combinations are designed to act as an extension of the operator’s wrist and hand at the end of an excavator.

For the company, these new products reflect the new age of Calibre Contracting Equipment and a fond farewell to the old traditional legacy approach under JB Attachments. Our new identity also reflects an ambition to be a world leader in excavator co-robotic attachments as embodied in new products you’ll see, namely, equipment enabling superior performance and great user experience combined with well acclaimed post-purchase service.

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Heli-Tilt

Tilting Couplers

Product Features

Narrow configuration
Tilt range 120 -180 degrees depending on size
Our Multi-Coupler incorporated in the design
Is fully compliant with all industry safety requirements and regulations including those introduced January 2016

Low-Profile

Light-Weight

Price

Speed of Connection

2 stages

Machine Selection And Price Check

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The first tilting couplers were the Ram-Tilt Couplers developed over 20 years ago. While the Ram-Tilt Coupler is well proven and has a solid place in the tilting attachment hierarchy, there was demand for a tilting coupler that had a greater range than the 35 - 45 degrees of the Straight Ram and that could operate in confined spaces which the angular construction of the Ram-Tilt inhibits. The Calibre Heli-Tilt was developed to answer this demand and complement the Ram-Tilt Coupler.

Critical to effective Heli-Tilt actuator design is correct power to weight ratio of the actuator itself and the geometry of the coupler - actuator housing. There are a number of competing strains at work that can create problems for the Heli-Tilt.

We have pioneered this work and after more than 15 years working on it, Calibre has established a proven design that is built for the Australian and New Zealand conditions. We believe we have achieved the lowest possible profile that can work with the actuator style tilting hitch to minimise the loss of breakout force commonly associated with tilting couplers.

Covering the full range of excavators from the compact 1.5 ton machines up to 38 ton models, the tilting capability ranges from 180 degrees at the 8 ton level, 120 degrees at the 12 ton level up to 134 degrees at the 16-38 ton level. The huge attraction of this Heli-Tilt Coupler is that its width is close to the width of the dipper arm. This is ideal in confined spaces such as digging narrow trenches.

Helical teeth on the internal spline interlinking with matching teeth on the piston - engaged with hydraulic pressure - converts linear pressure into powerful shaft rotation. No external moving parts and hydraulic overload protection reduces maintenance issues.

Choosing your Tilting Device

The purchase of any tilt coupler warrants careful consideration of the functions the tilt coupler is expected to perform.

The Heli-Tilt Coupler is ideal in conditions where space is confined and rotating flexibility is important - and as such - it is an important part of our tilting coupler range. However, while it is robust, the very nature of the actuator setup means that some thought has to be given to using the Heli-Tilt where it is planned to use more aggressive attachments such as Rock breakers and other such equipment.

Provided equipment such as a Rock Breaker is of an average size, matched to suit the weight class of the machine there will be no problem in using such attachments with a Heli-Tilt Coupler - but problems can emerge where maximum permitted and outsized equipment is used.

Choosing your Multi-Coupler Configuration

There is a price difference in the Heli-Tilt Multi-Coupler range depending on whether you choose a Front Locking Only configuration or a Front and Rear Locking configuration.

To understand the features and benefits of the Multi-Coupler incorporated in the Heli-Tilt Coupler go to the appropriate presentations on Front and Rear Locking Multi-Coupler and Front Locking only Multi-Coupler.

Construction:

Fabricated

Sizes:

6-45

Safety Operations Manual

Compliance:

Front & Rear Locking - Prevents Detach and Swing

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