JCB Excavators Old & New

[essexpete]

The JCB 8C in the sixth picture has a Detroit V6 or V8 shoehorned into it bet that sounds nice on full revs.

Jeremy

From the angle the top cover looks fairly short? perhaps a V6

[Gavin Phillips]

Just found this 814 Super (early version with the white cab) on an eBay search this morning. Looks in good condition!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JCB-814-SUPER-TRACKED-DIGGER-1990-14-TON-2-BUCKETS-PERKINS-ENGINE-VERY-CLEAN-/301156734634?pt=UK_BOI_Industrial_Tools_Construction_Tools_ET&hash=item461e5716aa

[essexpete]

Just found this 814 Super (early version with the white cab) on an eBay search this morning. Looks in good condition!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JCB-814-SUPER-TRACKED-DIGGER-1990-14-TON-2-BUCKETS-PERKINS-ENGINE-VERY-CLEAN-/301156734634?pt=UK_BOI_Industrial_Tools_Construction_Tools_ET&hash=item461e5716aa

Andrew Wilkins near Chippenham. No flies on Mr Wikins but he seemed a straight sort of dealer when I bought an old bale wrapper from him. The 814 must be older than 1990.

[Gavin Phillips]

Just found this 814 Super (early version with the white cab) on an eBay search this morning. Looks in good condition!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JCB-814-SUPER-TRACKED-DIGGER-1990-14-TON-2-BUCKETS-PERKINS-ENGINE-VERY-CLEAN-/301156734634?pt=UK_BOI_Industrial_Tools_Construction_Tools_ET&hash=item461e5716aa

Andrew Wilkins near Chippenham. No flies on Mr Wikins but he seemed a straight sort of dealer when I bought an old bale wrapper from him. The 814 must be older than 1990.

The later 800 Powerslide series (yellow cab design) were late 80's/earlier 90's prior to the launch of the JS-range. This must be somewhere around 86/87 as it was the "standard" 814 before that unless it was a really late model.

[Cat Traxcavator]

when did the jcb mini excavators come out I remember as a kid having a joal model of a jcb 801 but ive never seen a real one

[Gavin Phillips]

when did the jcb mini excavators come out I remember as a kid having a joal model of a jcb 801 but ive never seen a real one

I have an early brochure for the 802 dated 1984 so must have been early 1980's then. I also remember reading somewhere that this machine wasn't a JCB design either, but a re-badged Kubota? Since I can't find the source of that information, I can't vouch for it but it wouldn't surprise me too much since it was JCB's first attempt to break into that market.

[Cat Traxcavator]

can you post a pic of it

[Gavin Phillips]

can you post a pic of it

I wasn't sure if you were just after a picture of the machine on the front page or the whole thing so...minus the last page which doesn't really have much information anyway here's the front page, the link under that takes you to my photobucket account and the other 3 pages. I do apologies for the picture quality; its very overcast at the moment! There's a few other brochures on there as well, used a scanner for those though.



http://s2.photobucket.com/user/balacau/library/JCB%20802%20brochure?sort=3&page=1

I do hope this helps.

[Cat Traxcavator]

that jcb 802 looks a lot like a Kubota maybe a kh28 and what year is the top machine

[Gavin Phillips]

Not sure of the exact dates of JCB 801.4 model production but actions of the machines I've found range from late 1990's to around 2003/2004.

I agree that the JCB 802 does look pretty similar to the Kubota KH-28, you may be onto something there! Thanks.