Driving impression: Stoll Robust FZ front-end loader The Robust name may still decorate the side of Stoll’s new range of FZ loaders, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end with the hardware that came before. Boasting a number of fresh features, the new Stoll FZ sports a smart paint job and, more importantly, utilises clever Z-kinematics to achieve its parallel control.
Surely a tractor loader is a loader…. is a loader. OK, so there may be some differences in how these outwardly simple machines are controlled, but that must be about it. Or is it?
‘Absolutely not’, all loader manufacturers would justifiably argue. For these tractor mounted handlers have developed in all areas over recent years, most notably in their strength of build, technical design, performance capability and the already mentioned modes of control.
Typical of the modern loader breed is the featured Stoll Robust FZ range, which was launched in FZ 80 and FZ 60 model sizes at the end of last year. For our ‘drive’ we worked a still-to-be-debuted prototype version of what will eventually become the FZ family’s mid-range unit, hooked up to a 100hp Claas Ares 557 ATZ tractor. In terms of capacity, this as-yet-unnamed model is on a performance par with the current Robust F 35.
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