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Some half decent weather at last! :D I got up to my machines earlier this week, I did have one other previous visit where I did a small amount of cosmetic work on the Poclain. As many of you will no doubt be aware keeping machines outside they get covered in muck without doing any work, the 580BT lo...

Nice pics there Steve :thumbup: I wonder what the army were trying to accomplish? Jeremy I was working on a housing site in Ripon once and the Royal Engineers based there asked if they could do a lot of our initial earthworks for practice ! Go ahead my son , saved us a lot of money . Maybe they are...

Love the 580C shots and the one with the two Poclains and 580C.

Jeremy

Rob, although I am no auction expert, part of the problem for auctioneers is that people bid on things and win them, then decide they don't want them after all so that's why they want a deposit, one of the reasons I've never bothered with them. Think the only one I recall going to was when what had ...

Nice pics there Steve I wonder what the army were trying to accomplish?

Jeremy

Time well spent some pictures would be nice.

Jeremy

Although I don't know what this pipe looks like, I would imagine that you could get a new end soldered on if it was leaking on the end, if the pipe has holed I can't see why you could not but some and make one yourself, or again a good soldered repair.

Jeremy

Whitlock 505 wrote:Thanks Jeremy hope all is well with your collection
Ian

Yes Ian, the weather has been the main issue for me, but I do want to get some more work done on my machines.

Jeremy

Hi Andy nice loader, I would take the old belts off and measure them and have a loook see if there is a local belts, bearings, drives supplier, even an internet one, cheaper than OEM.

Jeremy

Hi Ian, no problem good luck with it.

Jeremy