MAJOR

Hospital is a place where professionals take care of our health and save people’s lives. Jihlava Hospital is not an exception. Yet, it is not widely recognized that to accomplish the goal, the hospital requires suitable environment: the premises must be kept in perfect condition, mainly in the winter with falling snow.

Lives of people may depend on such a thing as snow sweeping because it allows ambulance cars to pass through. We are honoured that Jihlava Hospital has chosen ZETOR MAJOR HS 80: a reliable and powerful tractor with easy maintenance. ‘We have purchased the tractor last October from MOREAU AGRI VYSOČINA Company,’ says Mr Martin Kos, the tractor operator. ‘We also work with the older ZETOR 5211 but that one is slowly getting out of service, so it was necessary to buy a new, modern and reliable tractor.’ Mr Kos is satisfied with the tractor. He has already tested it in snow sweeping appreciating the comfortably warm cabin. The tractor was working with a rear plough; front loader was ready for situations with bigger amounts of snow. The premises of the hospital are quite large keeping the staff busy not only in the winter. ‘We also use a flat-bed trailer to transport all kinds of stuff. Right now, I am taking paper to a local recycling centre,’ says Mr Kos.

Jihlava Hospital is familiar with the troubles caused by coronavirus pandemic. Now, everyone is relieved and everything slowly returns to normal. Our wish to the hospital is to be always ready for any expected and unexpected situations. We believe that our tractor will be of great help in this respect.

Even in the Moravian town of Vídeň, 5 kilometres north from Velké Meziříčí, professional equipment is needed to help with maintenance. For over two years, the job has been performed by ZETOR MAJOR HS 80.

Mr Martin Vávra, the Mayor of the town, told us the story about the tractor’s purchase. There was a tender and the result of a long discussion was that MAJOR HS 80 is the best choice. ‘One of the reasons why we have decided for this model was that it offers creepers (minimum speed no higher than 0.5 kph), which was a key factor for the jobs to be done here. Bigger weight of the tractor was also important as it was necessary for the tractor to work easily with front loader,’ says Mr Vávra talking about the details of the tender. In addition, it was equipped with pivoting mudguards which significantly decrease turning radius to 3.9 m, allowing the tractor to turn in small areas. The City Council was also attracted by the fact that it is a Czech product with global design: since 2018, the MAJOR range has been produced in the design ZETOR by Pininfarina. For the tender, the tractor was offered by MOREAU AGRI VYSOČINA spol. s r. o.

In the town of Vídeň, ZETOR MAJOR HS 80 is mainly occupied with forest jobs. The tractor was bought for forest fund subsidies. However, as forests in the entire republic have been damaged by bark beetles, the tractor started to be used for many different jobs, mostly in maintenance. Thus, the tractor still helps the citizens of the town to transport wood from the forest but it also blades snow in the winter, takes care of the town’s vegetation and is available for container transport all year round.