Moxy Wheeled Loader

DaveS · Post #1 by **DaveS** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 8:37 pm

Bit of an oddity this one.

Possibly built by FAI?

Dave.

IBH · Post #2 by **IBH** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:32 pm

On closer inspection it's a backhoe loader, 99.9% sure its an FAI badged as Moxy, rather than as a Hymac, which i'm sure you know sold FAI backhoe loaders and excavators under its own name.

Back 2004 Moxy said they were going to launch rigid dump trucks, a wheel loader and a bulldozer:
http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles ... -moxy.html

The Gordon Brown mentioned in the article, is of 'Brown Group' who went bust fame?

DaveS · Post #3 by **DaveS** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:48 pm

Well spotted IBH! I must look to see if I have a slide showing a side or rear view.

Well he has the same name, Gordon Brown, but then again so does the current Prime Minister!

And, of course, Moxy now have the rigid dumptrucks, courtesy of the revamped Aveling Barford designs.

http://www.infolink.com.au/n/Moxy-to-build-rigid-dump-trucks-n765122

Dave.

Gavin Phillips · Post #4 by **Gavin Phillips** » Wed May 13, 2009 10:30 pm

IBH wrote:On closer inspection it's a backhoe loader, 99.9% sure its an FAI badged as Moxy, rather than as a Hymac, which i'm sure you know sold FAI backhoe loaders and excavators under its own name.

Back 2004 Moxy said they were going to launch rigid dump trucks, a wheel loader and a bulldozer:
http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles ... -moxy.html

The Gordon Brown mentioned in the article, is of 'Brown Group' who went bust fame?

Moxy built a few backhoe machines (I believe there was a small series of machines called the 180, there was a 180B and a 180C Turbo). I've seen at least one of these machines appear on eBay although it looked in a bad way from what I remember with most of the sheet metalwork removed and the innards exposed to the elements.

Interestingly enough, there was also an articulated backhoe/compact wheel loader called the 565. This looks very much like the Kramer-Allrad series of compact loaders, although that may just be coincidence rather than intentional.

If FAI were the true builders of the Moxy 180, there was also a "Hymac" backhoe called the 180D WorkMaster. FAI-built also perhaps?

diggerjones · Post #5 by **diggerjones** » Thu May 14, 2009 10:14 pm

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heres mine

Gavin Phillips · Post #6 by **Gavin Phillips** » Thu May 14, 2009 10:20 pm

diggerjones wrote:heres mine

Very nice backhoe! Certainly 800% better condition to the one I saw on eBay.

How does it handle compared to the atypical JCB 3CX/Case 580-types?

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