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I wasnt eally clear on the locations. He toured the UK and some of Europe. I think the one JCB had a clam on the hoe was cleaning out a storm drain. He also had a pic of one on a Hiab crane on a dump truck.


The rest of the pictures were from France and Germany, moslty Germany.

Number 196 ABC all show pics of a Balmar loader that was based on Ford power units. I have run a few that a tractor salvage yard had taken in. One was a backoe loader. It looked like an early 2000 Ford Industrial TLB. The other was a loader with the engine in the front and loader I think was a a For...

There is another manufacturer here that makes a standard general purpose bucket with a built in tilt. But they are really more popular on skid steer loaders.

I think they probably got the truck stuck i nthe ditch trying to unload on the shoulder for the road. I have a friend that brought home a 750 Johndeere hystat dozer. He got off in the ditch that way. We took a 580 Case and piled dirt on the low side and made a ramp. I just strapped in and started th...

I think thats the same machine a member on the Aquaponics forum I visit just sold. It has a side dump bucket like that one and a hoe to. I have a question is the ITMA brand the same as a Macmoter from Italy.

I was wondering why theres so many clamshell buckets on excavators in Europe. They are a rarety here in the states. I have a friend that just toured the UK and said about 1/4 of al the excavators there had a clamshell on them. He showed me a few pics of them on mini excavators and even some one on a...

I remeber as a kid in the 1980's I saw a few red Poclains and many Case Poclain machines are still on farms. Im fascinated by Poclains many inventions they had in all feilds. Hydraulic,logging, and grab building.

I worked for a company that had a WA250 Komatsu Toolcarrier with a tilting QC. It was handy with forks un loading pipe from the offroad carriers. I t was handy with the stock bucket cutting V ditches or making a level cut on a sloping grade. I bought a SIlage blade off an old farmers tractor and add...

The telestick attachment just makes a Gradall a knuckle boom type machine I think it gives it a reach u to 60 feet.

Back in the day dad started out as a 15 year old running an identicle machine. He said on cold mornings the TD 18s started when everything else wouldnt. THe only draw backs to the Bucyrus Erie blade was they were super slow. He said one mush have a good starting spot not to do some fancy work. He al...