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The more you look at the Whitlock backactor the weirder it is ! Somone in the design office must have loved geometry :D Craig Certainly a strange set up, I wonder if the designer genuinely thought the layout was best or were they ducking around some kind of patent? The linkage on the bucket is not ...

Rob, my best guess is that these springs were done away with on later machines, so long as there are springs to aid the return of the shoes you should be okay to omit them, if you have any doubts, then simply drill holes in the new shoes to suit.

Jeremy

4 down an early Whitlock Dinkum digger. 8 down some interesting stuff hidden ! A Shawnee Poole dump outfit and one of them weird Arrow concrete breakers like a mini pile driver on wheels. Thanks for posting. Craig I hadn't spotted the Shawnee P, must be mid 60s on and used on the road by the locati...

Nice pics as ever Hy-mac 590C top photo, the other Hy-mac is a 580B

Jeremy

Hi Josh, welcome to the site it does tend to move a bit slower these days but a few of the old faithful still post here.

Jeremy

hair bear wrote:Those fire places would be worth a bit now.

Yesterdays rubbish, todays collectors item.

Jeremy

Another short clip for you, a 580C fitted with an electro-magnet, have operated similar machines during my youth, very enjoyable too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap7_rygWvLQ

Jeremy

Nice very early Hy-mac 580C in house demo pics.

Jeremy

*UPDATE* Hello fellas, its not good news im affraid - I have a much bigger issue now. I decided to move the JCB out of the field and closer to my workshop/tools in preperation for opening up the bell housing this weekend. It was very difficult to start, lots of cranking and not much happening. I th...

Looks like a new panel delivered from the main agent! I may have asked before (CRAFT), is that an oil cooler in front of the rad? The engine sounds good in the videos. Yes Pete it is an oil cooler :thumbup: I got a local fabrication company to make the two panels for me, they are also in the proces...