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Thanks from me as well for the pictures. What was the grey crawler with a roof , a Fowler perhaps? What about the red digger just next to the Hydra digger? Looks like a sleeper Foden in the background of one photo and some lovely background scenery. Cheers lads :) Pete the crawler with the grey roo...

Nice one Chris did you buy it?

Although I knew that Poclain used Magi Deutz engines in their machines I didn't realize the 75 had a five cylinder Magi Deutz engine five pots always seam a weird configuration somehow.

Jeremy

Here's a few more pics now I've had my film developed, incidently the 977K Traxcavator was due back to work on the Tuesday

Jeremy

Bob I have no more pictures of the back hoe, as you can see the machine was surrounded by cars, but next time I go there I will try and get some if the machine is parked in a convenient position.

Jeremy

Here are a few of the preserved oldies that were on display at the Bakewell show.

Jeremy

Paul, I can't say that I've ever taken a hydraulic valve block to pieces before but I cannot see any reason why you could not remove the spool from the valve block that has the leak and replace the "o"rings. Obviously thats assuming there is enough access to get the valves innards out, I w...

Joe I think its a D10T
Here's a pic of one I took on my visit to Finnings for comparison.

Jeremy

Another fine old JCB that I came across today, these machines survive in many different places from farmers yards to preserved railways amazing just how many you can see when your out and about

Jeremy

Came across these two Weatherills at different preserved railways, the one with the extended lifting arms looks like it still see's some action.
Amazing how some of this old kit still soldiers on.

Jeremy

Hi George, welcome to CMN.

Does your 3CX only cut out when you use the back actor or does it cut out if you have a heavy load on the front end too?
Daft question but have you checked the condition of the airfilter?
Does the engine slow down then cut out or just cut dead immediately?

Jeremy