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Hi Guys, Can anyone help.. I am trying to find out a name and contact phone number for the chap who owns the Butser Hill Limeworks Pit nr Petersfield. A team here in the South West are keen to purchase the old Hymac 690 that is lying in the pit for a restoration project. But so far we have had no j...

essexpete wrote:Can't you put on a new roof on without removing cab?

well thats what i was going to do but it would be easier to do with it off and i could give it a quick coat of paint .i just assumed some one on here had done it when repainting a machine.

i need to put a new roof on my 1985 jcb 811 had a quick look today at removing the cab .looks like 4 cab mounts and 1 elc connection, has any one had one off .it would be easier to fabricate if it was on the ground .just wondering is it just the cab that comes of or is it the seat floor etc any pics...

noisy like the detroit 8v92 when i take my kenworth out for a spin locals think you are a hooligan driving the crap out of it they dont understand it`s a 2 stroke .thats a great video well done.

Neversweat wrote:Some French ones this week

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Steve

that poclain 70 would have been a rare machine. great photos .

a load of garbage i took a machine into a Olympic site near the blackwall tunnel i walked up the ramp of my step frame when i hear the fore man shouting stop. they would not let me get down before the put air cushions all around the trailer :dizzy: :dizzy: h and s my arse you strugle like fuck to g...

Is that really a 1968? Sums up the demise of UK Brit trucks. great trucks but crap dealers / back up .i have had 3 v8`s over the years a 144.460 a 144.530 and a r 560 .the R 560 started making funny noises and i left it into south mimms to let them check it on the computer .£600 later and there is ...

Good tool, I loved operating them, the 75 and the 90 too. Way ahead of their time and great seating position high up. :thumbup: bar the odd hyd oil leak :doh: :doh: my old fella had a poclain 60cl and a 75 cl and i used to drive a poclain 75ckb for o`keeffe haulage in harrow .they were good tools i...

Hi, A few more pics. from an age when men were allowed to think for themselves. Ford.D.1000. & 22RB.jpg Priestman 220 (2).jpg KM Bedford & Priestman Tiger.jpg 22RB & 10RB.jpg Ruston.Bucyrus.Dynahoe.001.jpg bet the priestman had some power with the short dipper great photos :claphands: :...

Blimey :dizzy: :o :( image.jpg image.jpg image.jpg More Here - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603723/Woman-seriously-injured-two-diggers-fall-lorry-hit-car.html#ixzz2ymjouIGZ Steve used to make me laugh when i had 2 low loaders in London they would ring you and say well we have a 13 toner...