Barn find JCB3

[topkit]

Check out this one on Ebay item number 321787877256 it looks like it only needs light restoration the cab looks to be exceptionally good, there must be someone on here that can have a look at it.

[usedjcbdave]

See the link here to view ;

http://ebay.eu/1TGdexJ

[Scooby]

Strewth, that's a modern machine. The first 3 that I had didn't have a door (you climbed in through the back) and it was Super Major based.

Enough rams on that thing to make quite a few log splitters.

[Stormin]

I'd rather have had this one that sold last week.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/jcb-fordson-3-/221800158896?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEDWX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=8Zfg2FEeLcm9hdfg3o4jbLG1H7c%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

Had a bid early on then missed the finish of the auction

Went very cheap and looked to be reasonable condition for a restoration project or use as is after maintenance.

[Scooby]

Stormin. I'm not convinced that machine is a 3. It has a 3C cab on it and I think the front bucket is a 3C bucket. It looks too big for a 3 bucket. The loader arms are longer than a 3 and they aren't cranked so sharply. The legs are 3C as well. Obviously the boom is a 3 but I'm not sure about the rest of it. I think it might be a bitsa.

This is the 3 of that era.

[TullyveeryClassicJCB]

Its a definitely a 3C. It would be one typical of 1963 but a few were made with no side door in 1964. The boom is a 3C boom as well. The "C" tin plate almost always fell off in these machines. The boom is too long and heavy for the JCB 3 which shared its boom with the 2 and 2B.

[Martyn Henley]

Its a 1965 3....

jcb365.jpg

The boom was shared by the 3/3c, it was the dipper that was different on both, although for some reason the exported mk13c had the shorter jcb3 dipper fitted.

[Scooby]

Very interesting Martyn. My 3 was a 1963 so didn't have a door. But that machine is definitely like mine with regard to loader arms, legs, etc. What skid unit would have been under that one ? By 1965 Ford had gone to their 1000 range of ag. tractors. They had introduced them at Smithfield in 1964.

[TullyveeryClassicJCB]

I was referring to this digger in Stormin's post which is in fact a 3C. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/jcb-fordson-3-/221800158896?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEDWX%3AIT&_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=8Zfg2FEeLcm9hdfg3o4jbLG1H7c%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

[TullyveeryClassicJCB]

These later 3 Mk1's would have only been sold with the Nuffield 3 cylinder engine but the digger in this picture has the Fordson engine and 6 stud rear axle it would have almost certainly have been a JCB pre production prototype.