ма��u$*2k9*kid Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 i love that jcb 3c what a backhoe loader Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 i love that jcb 3c what a backhoe loader You obviously have an eagle's eye to spot the one parked behind the Case Tracked loader The other backhoe loader in this topic is an old Case. However as we are on the subject of JCB backhoe loaders mate, here's my Dad's pride and joy from early nineties, an E reg 3CX which was kept in really nice order. These two photos were taken just at the bottom of the road from where I live, they show the machine on the site of a new Landrover dealership. Posing on top of one the mounds Dad landscaped out of all the waste soil to make a little adventure playground for the Landrovers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich.new holland Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 those were the days you could leave your buckets out and they we safe now you have to partically have a security gaurd as there always going missing and there not cheap ither \ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Some nice Big cats there. I do like caterpillars but the only one I have in my collection is like a little kitten in comparison ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich.new holland Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 wow ,now thats what i need have the garden done in no time never seen anything like that before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I have had a play with the plough behind me Farmall Cub at a working day last year but as for the Ransome MG2 crawler I aint going to work it and get it messed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 4, 2009 Author Share Posted February 4, 2009 those were the days you could leave your buckets out and they we safe now you have to partically have a security gaurd as there always going missing and there not cheap ither \ Very true mate, those days are long gone. I have had a play with the plough behind me Farmall Cub at a working day last year but as for the Ransome MG2 crawler I aint going to work it and get it messed up. Wow Bill, your little MG2 looks superb, absolute credit to you, lovely little crawler. Here's a couple i've seen in the past, an MG2 at a local rally and a bit bigger one ploughing at "Festival of the Plough" a few years back. And here's one of my favourite Catepillars from the past, a really tidy D5 on L.G.P tracks my Dad used on a bypass project near York many years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I have had a play with the plough behind me Farmall Cub at a working day last year but as for the Ransome MG2 crawler I aint going to work it and get it messed up. Wow Bill, your little MG2 looks superb, absolute credit to you, lovely little crawler. Here's a couple i've seen in the past, an MG2 at a local rally and a bit bigger one ploughing at "Festival of the Plough" a few years back. Thanks David... I've owned my MG2 a while now in fact it was restored in 1985 ...24 years ago I attach a link to a post I did on it http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=21539.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 5, 2009 Author Share Posted February 5, 2009 Wow Bill, your little MG2 looks superb, absolute credit to you, lovely little crawler. Here's a couple i've seen in the past, an MG2 at a local rally and a bit bigger one ploughing at "Festival of the Plough" a few years back. Thanks David... I've owned my MG2 a while now in fact it was restored in 1985 ...24 years ago I attach a link to a post I did on it http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=21539.0 Thanks for posting the link to your little MG2 Bill, amazing to see it in the condition it still is, love the hand painted sign writing, top class Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Well David when I restored my MG2 and completed in the spring of 1985 transfers were not available so I had to try my best and copy what I could from blown up pictures in the handbook etc. I try to do as much on the restoration side as possible myself because I have a motto.... if I can do something myself I won't pay anyone else to do it for me ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 I have a motto.... if I can do something myself I won't pay anyone else to do it for me ;) I reckon that motto applies to all Yorkshiremen, certainly most of my family Bill Here's some more photographs from the road building project near York my Dad used the L.G.P D5 on. From the same contractor as the D5 come a pair Caterpillar excavators, a 225 and 235 loading another company's Volvo A.D.Ts. The Aveling Barford grader is also from the same place as the Cats and one of very few graders my Dad has had a go on. The other two excavators are a pair of Ackerman H16s loading more Volvo A.D.Ts on another part of the site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 Here's a variety of tracked excavators seen and photographed by Dad over the years. Starting at the bottom of the road where I live on a very wet site my brother and I are seen standing in front of a old Caterpillar 215 many years ago. On the same site we came across this big Norwegian Broyt X45 TB, never seen another since. Seen in front of the Lighthouse at Flamborough is this really smart O & K RH6 LC which had just been bought second hand by the firm my Dad was working for at the time. It's maiden task here was to help install a new sewage pumping station. When a larger machine was needed to help install a new fuel tank on a site near the National Railway Mueseum in York the contractor my Dad was working for aquired the services of this Ackerman H10 from D.H. Turner plant. Another photo taken very close to home, just a few hundred yards away from where I live, this International 640HD was being used on drainage work from new housing estate back in the early nineties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow legs Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 takes me back seen stepney machines, i have a few pics of them also as they were based nr to were i live. DH Turner are also based about 7 miles from my house at catfoss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 takes me back seen stepney machines, i have a few pics of them also as they were based nr to were i live. DH Turner are also based about 7 miles from my house at catfoss My Dad was wondering about D H Turner and whether their machines were still about, he seems to remember them having a few of those Ackerman excavators many years ago. The photo of that Stepney International is one of my favourites, never seen many of them, a chap that my Dad used to work for had a yellow International but it was a bit of a rusting heap last time I saw it on a tip near Whitby. Here's Dad aboard a Poclain 90ck on a building site at Crossgates near Scarborough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi6920 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Love the pics mate, ill have to snap some pics when im working our D4-7U again next week Keep the old plant comming mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 Love the pics mate, ill have to snap some pics when im working our D4-7U again next week Keep the old plant comming mate Thanks Nick, that would be great to see the D4, a company my Dad used to work for ran a pair of D4 dozers not sure what suffix they were, but i'll have a look for them as they kept one to take to vintage working days. There's a few more photographs on the way, my Dad very kindly dug out from the garage a box load more wallets with photos of the Case and Cat tracked loaders he used 30 years ago. Here's a big Cat 235 excavator ( the same one from the road building job) seen on demolition clear up duties in Scarborough loading a Volvo FL series tipper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 As I've had to cope with quite a bit of the white stuff today it seems only appropriate that I post a few "snowy" pictures from the archives. These photographs were taken just before day break and as the Sun comes up on a pair of JCB 806 tracked excavators about to get to work on the start of a housing estate at Strensall just over 30 years ago. From the Case tracked loader my Dad was operating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ма��u$*2k9*kid Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 wow now we're talking love the excavators Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 wow now we're talking love the excavators Thanks Marcus, plenty more to come mate Here's the day light photographs of the JCB 806s in action and a close up of my Dad's colleague Phil operating one of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi6920 Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Very nice pics, Looking at that last one it makes you wonder how many front windos got smashed working like that, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellarian Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Wooden profiles, levelling staf, Wish I had a pound for everyone of those I did as a banksman / surveyors runner. Sam Tyler moment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Very nice pics, Looking at that last one it makes you wonder how many front windos got smashed working like that, Thanks Nick, i've been reliably informed a replacement was fitted to this machine at some point during its working life. Wooden profiles, levelling staf, Wish I had a pound for everyone of those I did as a banksman / surveyors runner. Sam Tyler moment... A bit different from the lasers involved nowadays. Here's some modern New Holland Kobelco excavators and New Holland bulldozer my Dad operated for a Leeds based firm on sites at Catterick and Scarborough in 2007. First up the zero tail swing machine at Catterick. Whilst at Scarborough, the big 485 model and bulldozer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new holland driver Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 thanks for putting them up my old man has ahd a look and like them some nice pics in there a lot of them dont make gear any more like that i have never seen an intternal digger before i no my old man use to have an drowt and i think that was internal that case will digger is like the one i frist drove not to long ago brought back memoris thanks very much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 thanks for putting them up my old man has ahd a look and like them some nice pics in there a lot of them dont make gear any more like that i have never seen an intternal digger before i no my old man use to have an drowt and i think that was internal that case will digger is like the one i frist drove not to long ago brought back memoris thanks very much Thank you New Holland Driver, glad your Dad enjoyed looking through them too, plenty more on the way. I've seen very few International excavators and that's the only red and white one i've seen. It will have been an International mate, as far as i'm aware Drott were the company that developed the 4 in 1 bucket and International came to an agreement to market them on their machines. My Dad drove quite a few Case 580G and 580Ks before moving onto JCB 3CXs with another firm will post some more pictures of these soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich.new holland Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 ahh brilliant pics walter you got a pics of a few machines we still have round the back like the the cat 215 shes in the field ,poclain 60 which we are in the middle of changing the front axle as it had snapped while working on the railway we did have 2 75's too , a wheeled and a tracked the track one was sold a few years ago but the wheeled one caught fire while ditching on a farm ,thats were we got the axle for the 60 nice to see pic of them working i was using our international td8 dozer yesterday pulling a mole plough what are these new hollands like then walter?? keep the pics coming there brilliant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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