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JCB Tracked Loaders.

Post #1 by IBH » Thu May 08, 2008 1:17 am

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Post #2 by jcb3cMk3 » Sat May 10, 2008 9:58 am

This is one of my favourite machines. 10yrs ahead of Caterpillar and Komatsu. Beautiful lines.


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Post #3 by Nick Drew » Sat May 10, 2008 10:10 am

jcb3cMk3 wrote:This is one of my favourite machines. 10yrs ahead of Caterpillar and Komatsu. Beautiful lines.


Yeh !! Its a shame that they only produced them for a relatively short period :dizzy: I never got to see one for real but I used to have one of the Corgi models of them :lol:

Anyone got any photos of its bigger brothers 112 & 114 ??

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Post #4 by Martyn Henley » Sat May 10, 2008 10:14 am

Great machines and like you said years ahead of anything else, sales were not what JCB expected, as the trade was sceptical over the engineering, preferring the tried and tested conventional machines of the time, stopping production of the 3 machines in the range in 1979.
As an operator the only problem i had with the machine was the drive levers out in front of you, your left arm was allways strecthed out in front of you.

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Re: JCB Tracked Loaders.

Post #5 by Rusted » Sat May 10, 2008 1:10 pm

jcb3cMk3 wrote:This is one of my favourite machines. 10yrs ahead of Caterpillar and Komatsu. Beautiful lines.


It looks butt ugly to me!....(runs for air raid shelter)..... :shock:


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Re: JCB Tracked Loaders.

Post #6 by Nick Drew » Sat May 10, 2008 1:45 pm

Rusted wrote:
jcb3cMk3 wrote:This is one of my favourite machines. 10yrs ahead of Caterpillar and Komatsu. Beautiful lines.


It looks butt ugly to me!....(runs for air raid shelter)..... :shock:



Ah well Rusted, "one mans meat is another mans poison" !! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Must admit though I have seen a lot more pleasant looking machines !! ;)

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Post #8 by nick lamb » Sun May 11, 2008 9:51 am

Someone's done a nice job of restoring it.I thought it was a new one photographed years ago untill I saw the 3c in the background.


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Re: JCB Tracked Loaders.

Post #9 by v64paul » Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:15 am

I was always told that the main problem was that they were a bit too quick and used to wear the undercarriage out?
there are old fitters and bold fitters but no old bold fitters...


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Post #10 by tctractors » Mon Oct 13, 2008 9:47 pm

The biggest fault was the steel pipework that was just all over the place, I converted about 4 of these shovels to rubber pipe and the trouble seemed to stop over-night, they used Dowmatic (Dowty) drives and serviced as spec'ed seemed to stick the hammer well, the track problem would have been solved with the wet link tracks, this was not an option in those days, they were a great thing to look at, to drive, and a great leap forward from a CAT 951, fast forward about 20 years for CAT to bring out the 953 shovel???

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