The Poclain Thread "Vive le France"!!

[Gavin Phillips]

Nice looking Poclain 75 Model B there.

[storan]

Hi all I have currently purchased a Poclain 61 ck Its called. Havent seen any around I am in Ireland. I bought it few months ago to do so land reclaimation on my farm. Currently putting in new seals in the ram will post pics when get the chance.
Great thread

[bigkit]

Good tool, I loved operating them, the 75 and the 90 too. Way ahead of their time and great seating position high up.

[v8detroit]

Good tool, I loved operating them, the 75 and the 90 too. Way ahead of their time and great seating position high up.

bar the odd hyd oil leak 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 in there day and like Clive said nice and high for loading 8 wheelers .

[storan]

There is good visibility from the cab alright. I highly doubt it will be loading any 8 wheelers though. I am debating to put bushings in the bucket, would they be hard to find? Curious does anyone have any knowledge on the matter, I am only new to this

[bigkit]

You'll get the pins and bushes OK. Just phone around the usual after market lot. The high pressure hydraulics were their shortfall but never the less very successful machines. Oh, and the original Poclain/Geith buckets where the best you could buy!

[storan]

Cheers guys thanks for the valuable info

[Throttle]

You can get bushes and bits from Digbits http://www.digbits.co.uk/ i don't work there and don't deal with them that much.. Just know of them
We have quite a few Poclains still that we break or refurb some of the yards we deal with like them as they still are good runners and they don't have all the electrical and computers too get problems with
We have some Poclain 90's out on hire one of the places being Jaguar/Landrover plant at Halewood Liverpool.

[Throttle]

Poclain 90B (Rubber duck) still working well today

[Gavin Phillips]

Looks very smart! Thanks for sharing.