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Hi Craig,

It's built around a Ford compact tractor, not sure which one exactly but it's 27 hp.
Later ones had a 47hp Isuzu engine I believe, which I imagine gives things quite a boost.

Sandy

Yes 4wd was standard, all in all quite a well equipped and thought out machine really, basically like a scaled down 3CX I would say.

Thanks Jeremy. To be honest I never knew they existed until I saw this one for sale on Gumtree, and it just looked ideal for my needs and which has turned out to be the case. I had originally been thinking it would be a choice between a JCB 2CX or maybe an MF 40 if I could find anything at a decent ...

Thanks, yes a nice toy and must admit I've grown quite attached to my Badger. Lewis are/were a fairly small UK company who make a lot of attachments for compact tractors, including back hoes and loaders, I think they might have been taken over now by another company. They made 3 versions of the Badg...

Hello there, new to this forum and just wondered if there were any Lewis Badger owners around here, or do we need to be in a mini digger forum ?? Anyway I bought one last year for a self build project and it's turned out to be an excellent little machine, seems to punch above it's 3t weight as well,...

Craig , heres a photo , whoever painted it blue did a very thorough job , they even painted the inside surface of the gauze filter in the hydraulic oil reservoir ( goes at least three inches down the tube ) ,even I know that was not very clever of them . Nick , yes its cavitating , there is no filt...