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Nice one Nicky hope you're keeping TC busy. give him my regards the next time you see him.

Jeremy

Hi Andy and welcome nice old shovel there, no so common on this side of the pond but somebody on here may just be able to point you in the right direction.

Jeremy

Two for the price of one in the first photo, not overloaded either.

Jeremy

The Belaz digger in the 6th picture down was a result of a Russian copy of a Hy-mac 580, rumor has it that Hy-mac sent a machine out there to see if they could sell them there and the Russians simply stripped it down and copied it.

Jeremy

Hi and welcome to the site I'm sure that somebody on here will point you in the right direction, if you read through many of the topics on JCB machines, then you should also find some useful guidance there.

Jeremy

Great pics Steve :claphands: the bloke on the frame in the 5th photo down, that would not be allowed today, Health & Safety would do their nut :lol: the Poclain 75 of Gallaghers I wonder where that was taken? The Hymac 580B with the non-standard engine canopy on it in the last but one photo, loo...

Pete, sometimes I don't post photos as the owner has asked me not to, some folk don't mind, but its good manners to ask first.

Jeremy

I had spoken to Andrew, he was thinking of putting it off till March, however looks like he has changed his mind, I haven't been up since before Christmas for one reason or another, my last days holiday when I could have gone up, I was ill with Covid. I'm just waiting for a bit better weather before...

I have a question for the collective brains of this fine forum... I read somewhere that the Petter PH engines don't have a copper sealing washer between the injector and the seat in the head. That seems a bit counter-intuitive to me, and in fact someone had fitted a sealing washer at some point in ...

hair bear wrote:Transcontinental - in comparison to other things then they were huge.
In the pic with the O&K, if that was me that stump would go end over end straight back in the river!

Same cab as the Berliet trucks, yes they were a big truck.

Jeremy