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- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:47 pm
- Forum: Excavators
- Topic: Hymac Excavators
- Replies: 1153
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Re: Hymac Excavators
Did they ' engineer Wolverhamptons future'. I worked on a construction site in Wolverhampton centre in 1988 tbh it was pretty grim at that time . They owned quite a few different industries around the country including NEI Thompson Tankers which used to be at Moxley just down the road from Wolverha...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Heavy Haulage
- Topic: Classic pictures Updated 13/04/2024
- Replies: 4274
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Re: Classic pictures Updated 13/04/2024
Billy26F5 wrote:The horns are up on top so I vote for a late Type 3, never seen a Type 4 with the horns there (not even the late ones), and anyway they would have been less likely to be in a yard like that.
Sandy
You win the bigger anorak award
Jeremy
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: Heavy Haulage
- Topic: Classic pictures Updated 13/04/2024
- Replies: 4274
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Re: Classic pictures Updated 13/04/2024
Let me just slip on an anorak... Yes, it's an EE type 3, in green would have been a D6xxx number and later on Class 37xxx. :think: Ahem, anyhow, Is there a story to the D tipper? At a glance I'd say from the first photo it ran down the slope on the left backwards and through the wall. Can't really ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:39 pm
- Forum: Heavy Haulage
- Topic: Classic pictures Updated 13/04/2024
- Replies: 4274
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Re: Classic pictures Updated 13/04/2024
hair bear wrote:Is it my imagination - or is the crawler in the train yard painted in 'coaching stock' crimson and cream?
Yes it is indeed, I think railway people referred to it as "blood and custard"
Jeremy
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: Dumpers
- Topic: Thwaites Alldrive
- Replies: 2
- Views: 141
Re: Thwaites Alldrive
Hi Rob and welcome your dumper looks very much like this one:
https://www.thwaitesdumpers.co.uk/compa ... ment/1975/
Jeremy
https://www.thwaitesdumpers.co.uk/compa ... ment/1975/
Jeremy
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:41 pm
- Forum: Heavy Haulage
- Topic: Classic pictures Updated 13/04/2024
- Replies: 4274
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Re: Classic pictures Updated 01/04/2024
Steven Parr wrote:Yes, lots of languishing going on here.
Nice photos, thanks for sharing, can I ask what is the high cab Hy-mac material handler in the background, it looks like a 595/596?
Jeremy
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: Excavators
- Topic: Hymac Excavators
- Replies: 1153
- Views: 455568
Re: Hymac Excavators
XS650 wrote:I did think that myself !
Pete, Craig, yes I must confess at the initial glance I thought it looked a bit like a Poclain 81, certainly early Poclain style livery.
Jeremy
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:29 pm
- Forum: Excavators
- Topic: Hymac Excavators
- Replies: 1153
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Re: Hymac Excavators
XS650 wrote:Anyone know what model this is.
121 or 141 maybe ?
Seen in a French film.
Craig
I think this is the larger 181
Jeremy
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: Loaders/Backhoes
- Topic: JCB 3CX-4 Sitemaster 1989 Dipper Ram seal replacement
- Replies: 3
- Views: 276
Re: JCB 3CX-4 Sitemaster 1989 Dipper Ram seal replacement
Hi Conor, welcome to the forum we have a few resident JCB experts on here that should be able to point you in the right direction.
Jeremy
Jeremy
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: Heavy Haulage
- Topic: Classic pictures Updated 13/04/2024
- Replies: 4274
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Re: Classic pictures Updated 24/03/2024
Has the boom an extra pivot or is it a slide out job? How do you know that is a Dorman? Not doubting our Hymac expert, just asking. The boom was a multi-position boom but not powered, if you look closely at the engine canopy, you can see that it is higher than the standard ones and that there is pa...