The Classic Machinery Network

He He, don't think I would have posted that on the internet Clive, or are they at the bottom of your garden? Happy new year.

Having driven JCB's for many years I can honestly say I don't know how to fit a breaker to one. What I would do is dig a hole beside the rock, throw the breaker in the bottom, tip the rock in, backfill and the jobs a good un.

Hello Carl, I take it the liners are dry liners ? In my friends machine shop he usually takes the old liners out by boring them with the boring bar. When they get thin enough you can then break them out. Push the new ones in with a hydraulic press and then bore / hone to size.I think you have to bum...

Clive, I use a thing called "shrinkpic" but I don't know if its any good for what your trying to do, its all the work of lucifer!

Now if I had an arm on the back of the VC 15 and on the front like that one in the water it would have 90 ft reach! Do you think that would be good Clive? Good picture thanks , Ken

Well I obviously don't know what I am talking about, but if you have never seen a fordson dual clutch that has " let go " then dont believe that 3 times the hp will only make it slip. The dual clutch will end up in many parts when the levers and the turrets etc stop holding hands. Of cours...

Sorry but Ransomes only fitted there own engines to MG crawlers except for the Drayton diesels on later machines. The thought of something like a honda engine on such a machine is pretty dire. MG2, MG5, MG6 and MG40 is the way the models go. Ken

Yes it will probably be ok to use the dual clutch but there is always that one time when you want to see what it will do. And what it will do is explode the clutch into many parts as you will have about 95 more horses going through it if it is a standard v8 perkins, more if a turbo.Be good to see so...

As big a one as possible ! When we put a six cylinder engine in a Major we just used the clutch which was on the engine, which was out of a lorry and about 120hp. It worked for a long time and eventually destroyed the pto gears, but the clutch never gave trouble. I dont think you should use the doub...

Your right Clive , thats why im broke and the man in question is a rich man. I did fell a 60ft long dutch barn though, I cut the steel and Sharon pulled it over with the winch tractor, it floated down like a parachute. Ken