The Classic Machinery Network

Nice pair of Mercs.
2nd last pic - If he's doing that whole demolition job with an AllDig, it's going to take a while. I'd give him a couple of quid for the AA sign before Mr. Cole gets it.

Not so much 'new toy', more 'needed accessory'!

Nice tipper evolution line up.
Never knew a J4 could carry that much on the roof rack? Seriously though, I would have thought the service truck should have been an Ebro or similar so I wonder if JCB would have supplied it ready built as dealer equipment?
Is the next one down a Muir Hill?

I guess that would have been a three way (ahem...) tip rather than a swivel body (oo err) type?

'the 3rd man wacked and swept up. Only had 2 men at work signs.' reminds me of a Benny Hill sketch - They wanted tree fellers, and there's only the two of us.

I reckon that Cargo could get unstable a bit quick.

After the £12 burger incident at a charity tractor run last year and then this I'm starting to wonder if I am turning into the worlds biggest cheapskate???

I've always enjoyed going to farm sales, you never know what might turn up. It used to be fun to get a bargain. Dragged all the way to Alton recently to a collective sale. Big mistake. It was a Saturday so was expecting the usual dredge of 'Saturday shoppers' just getting in the way but what I wasn'...

Good point, I hadn't looked at it like that.

I honestly don't know how you guys manage to photo and document things like you do! I've often got home and thought I should have taken some before and after pics - I even set out on a couple of occasions armed with the camera instead of the phone specifically to do some documenting and immediately ...

Yes, it's been a year already since the 550 arrived - so what have we achieved this far? The list of completed jobs keeps growing but none of it could be classed as difficult (Henry Cole would call it fettling), and mostly just Saturday afternoons and odd evenings so not a huge amount of time involv...