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Hi Martyn, Nice to hear your Western stories and thanks for posting the pics. It was a real shame that Swindon Works cut D818 Glory up for scrap when the works closed :cry: I visit the Midland Railway Centre at Butterly on a regular basis, D1048 Western Lady was based there until recently but now sh...

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Heres a Cat M325c that resides at a local scrap metal yard along with about another 12 machines, a real mixed bag these days as they have; Cat, Case-Poclain, Liebherr and Terex Fuchs machines.


Jeremy

Apart from construction machinery, trucks, trains, tanks, okay now Im goin off on one, I do have the other odd hobby or three.
Motorcycling
Just thought Id show you my other play thing (no not the girlfriend thats not allowed).

One Triumph Trident

Hi Martyn Off comes the digger anorak and on comes the class 52 anorak :ugeek: Geek mode selected. Yes the Class 52 Westerns happen to be my favourite locos and yes Ive seen all seven preserved machines and ridden behind all of them except D1048 Western Lady. We have two of these locos D1013 Western...

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Yep the last few pics definately a 580D but fitted with an old 580/580B dipper stick wow interesting (well to sad geeks like me).



More Hymac pics please, yes I said more.

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Nice pics cool 8-) Anyway what do you mean you wouldnt like to pic up the repair bill? Seen your insurance premiums lately :dizzy: Lets see do insurance companies exist to make a loss :?: Err I guess thats a big NO NO then. Guess somebody on board wasnt very adept at strapping large loads down then ...

Hi John & Nick, Well I know that Hymac offered a face shovel configuration on the following models; :ugeek: 580, 580B, 580BT, 580C, 610, 610C, 880, 880C, 890, 1080 and 1290. I have no reason to believe that they did not offer this on the 590 and 590C either. Im sure that JCB also offered likewis...

Yes and Yes again!



Yes Nick shes certainly a 580c and yes IBH your correct its an old Hymac 580 or 580b on the Flickr site, I had already downloaded the pic myself

Think it may be beyond preservation status though (the 580b)

Jeremy

Hi to all, Sorry for not posting for so long but life is a little busy for me at this present time. The shovel in question at the bottom right of the 880 picture is an old Weatherhill Hydraulic machine, sorry I cant tell you much about em probably another old English manufacturer thats long gone bet...

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