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by essexpete
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:04 am
Forum: Paving Equipment
Topic: What roller
Replies: 3
Views: 215

Re: What roller

It almost looks like an adaptation of a pedestrian twin drum?
by essexpete
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:08 am
Forum: Events
Topic: Tractor World 2024, Malvern.
Replies: 5
Views: 319

Re: Tractor World 2024, Malvern.

The mixer 6 wheeler is a D series with, probably, the Perkins V8 engine.
by essexpete
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:57 am
Forum: Events
Topic: Tractor World 2024, Malvern.
Replies: 5
Views: 319

Re: Tractor World 2024, Malvern.

IBH wrote:Second batch of photographs.10. JCB 4D MKIII pic 3 rear view.JPG11.

Heavy old thing, I had forgotten about the linked bar between the legs and the extensions that can be dropped down.
by essexpete
Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:47 pm
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 17/03/2024
Replies: 4243
Views: 2961480

Re: Classic pictures Updated 10/03/2024

I still have a Bomag 75 vib roll, helif that in't a nasty tool to sit on.
by essexpete
Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:23 am
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 17/03/2024
Replies: 4243
Views: 2961480

Re: Classic pictures Updated 03/03/2024

Seconded great pics. The old Scammell Pioneer has a big job on getting that excavator out of the mud. I know by winching very very slowy with snatch blocks they could achieve amazing feats. The white 4x4 with the Scammell is interesting it is a Portugese UMM. There were a lot of weird and wonderful...
by essexpete
Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:55 pm
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 17/03/2024
Replies: 4243
Views: 2961480

Re: Classic pictures Updated 03/03/2024

Billy26F5 wrote:Nice JCB brochures there, not many of the later 2D's around, and I suspect few were used as intended.
Sandy

We used to drop off the MF 220 from the MF 203 and that worked but the JCB would be a numb old lump I reckon.
by essexpete
Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:08 pm
Forum: Tractors
Topic: Massey Ferguson 135 full nut and bolt restoration
Replies: 2
Views: 248

Re: Massey Ferguson 135 full nut and bolt restoration

Will you put up some photos if possible?
by essexpete
Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:42 am
Forum: Loaders/Backhoes
Topic: 4/98 leyland engine swap between JCB3CMk2 & Mk3?
Replies: 7
Views: 832

Re: 4/98 leyland engine swap between JCB3CMk2 & Mk3?

I've gone the other way even further, my 3c3 with a 4/98 had liner issues and I had no time to dig right into it, and I got a really wrecked 3c2 with a 38dt in it. Its now in my 3c3 currently and I have the 4/98 stashed swearing to rebuild it properly one day and run it up on a dyno for a few heat ...
by essexpete
Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:21 pm
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 17/03/2024
Replies: 4243
Views: 2961480

Re: Classic pictures Updated 17/02/2024

Staggering how those Bedford tiipers got around in the sh1t.
The photo of the AEC Marshall and the Wetherill 62B so typical of the era.
by essexpete
Thu Feb 15, 2024 1:14 am
Forum: Loaders/Backhoes
Topic: JCB 3cx
Replies: 12
Views: 20668

Re: JCB 3cx

Norm, if you could find a joiner to link the first pipe in to the last one, bypassing the clamps, you might see what happens with the clamps?

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