Re: International B125 fitted with JCB digger
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 10:26 pm
Hi Julian,
Like Martin I,m sure its a B100 loder.
The B100 was superceded by the 100 Loader circa 1970, the 100 Loader also updated the final drives with plannetary reductions like the 125.
Back in the 1960s when I worked on the spanners there was allways at least one in the workshop, usualy with back end problems. I think I could still rebuild one blindfold.
I later owned a B100 and a 125 of my own.
A friend of mine ran a B 100 with the JCB 3 backhoe which I hired from time to time.
The backhoe was far too heavy for it, the legs were too low to the ground and we were for ever getting stuck and lifting it out, unless in the hardest of ground.
If you did find hard ground then the front bucket wouldn't penetrate because the weight on the back end just unballanced the whole thing and the front just lifted.
That said I think it would make a great restoration project.
Good luck with it.
Fred
Like Martin I,m sure its a B100 loder.
The B100 was superceded by the 100 Loader circa 1970, the 100 Loader also updated the final drives with plannetary reductions like the 125.
Back in the 1960s when I worked on the spanners there was allways at least one in the workshop, usualy with back end problems. I think I could still rebuild one blindfold.
I later owned a B100 and a 125 of my own.
A friend of mine ran a B 100 with the JCB 3 backhoe which I hired from time to time.
The backhoe was far too heavy for it, the legs were too low to the ground and we were for ever getting stuck and lifting it out, unless in the hardest of ground.
If you did find hard ground then the front bucket wouldn't penetrate because the weight on the back end just unballanced the whole thing and the front just lifted.
That said I think it would make a great restoration project.
Good luck with it.
Fred