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by essexpete
Thu May 16, 2024 9:56 am
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 11/05/2024
Replies: 4297
Views: 3067365

Re: Classic pictures Updated 11/05/2024

hair bear wrote: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.

Yes it was a three way (titter ye not).
by essexpete
Tue May 14, 2024 11:02 pm
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 11/05/2024
Replies: 4297
Views: 3067365

Re: Classic pictures Updated 11/05/2024

I reckon that Cargo could get unstable a bit quick. You must have read my mind :lol: doesn't look like one of the better ideas for tipping! Jeremy A few years ago, in France, I watched a gang of 3 laying some ducting down the side of a village road. One man on the floor, a 13 ton excavator with a f...
by essexpete
Mon May 13, 2024 8:04 pm
Forum: Wheel Loaders
Topic: Weatherill
Replies: 378
Views: 225877

Re: Weatherill

Coke was a by-product of coal after gas extraction, very light non dense material. The loader really looks like an adaptation of the 2H. Model.
by essexpete
Mon May 13, 2024 12:23 am
Forum: Wheel Loaders
Topic: Weatherill
Replies: 378
Views: 225877

Re: Weatherill

Never heard of a 6HL before. Odd looking arm arrangement.
by essexpete
Fri May 10, 2024 11:27 pm
Forum: Excavators
Topic: Hymac 580BT 1969
Replies: 193
Views: 156185

Re: Hymac 580BT 1969

Brightening up J!
by essexpete
Mon May 06, 2024 12:19 pm
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 11/05/2024
Replies: 4297
Views: 3067365

Re: Classic pictures Updated 06/05/2024

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by essexpete
Mon May 06, 2024 11:58 am
Forum: Heavy Haulage
Topic: Classic pictures Updated 11/05/2024
Replies: 4297
Views: 3067365

Re: Classic pictures Updated 06/05/2024

Was the last shot for real? :shock:
by essexpete
Fri May 03, 2024 10:36 pm
Forum: Loaders/Backhoes
Topic: 1984 JCB 3CX - Model 4 297348/P/S
Replies: 4
Views: 293

Re: 1984 JCB 3CX - Model 4 297348/P/S

Might pay to put a bar under the rear wheel when off the ground to check the wheel bearing. I found, admittedly years ago, that an UTTO off the shelf allowed brake chatter.i I have also found similar with a Manitou based New Holland telehandler. UTTO made the brakes squark and the limited slip diff ...
by essexpete
Fri May 03, 2024 11:22 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Buyers premium
Replies: 4
Views: 443

Re: Buyers premium

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??? Sorry Rob but you are! :D Joking apart, the auctioneers will claim that buyers have the opportunity to view and purchase from a large collectio...
by essexpete
Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:08 pm
Forum: Tractors
Topic: One year on, MF550
Replies: 4
Views: 515

Re: One year on, MF550

Rob that looks like a catch up on 40 years worth of maintenance.

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