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how bout some pics of the lineup in the backround?:)

hi, i have been constantly logged out. i will spend 2 minutes typing a post, click submit and i am directed straight to log in page and my post is lost. this also happens when i am reading a long post, i return to new posts to find i am on main page logged out :dizzy: . maybe the timeout is too shor...

i think it would be a fantastic idea. it would be a good way of showing jcb heritage to would be purchasers. great way to build the company profile in the eyes of those viewing by way of showing the years of tech development and time built experience. go for it. you could even have a link for jcb on...

dave s and tracshovel, i was there around time of auction as we bought 2 of the overhead cranes for our workshops. around the same time one of the shops was being prepared as a blockbuster film set!, i cannot remember what the film was. i looked for clips of the shipyard on youtube and there are som...

Well i never , didn`t know they built a RD150 :dizzy: Great find barry :thumbs_up: this is a superb thread :thumbs_up: , good pics barry. did blue circle cement or quinns have rd150's? this thread has reminded me of another old dumper make ... barry or robert, did you ever see north down quarries-m...

fantastic pics!!, id love to be on the welding team!, right up my street!. do you have any pics of the big orange beasts at mt k ?? id love to see some pics or vids of these rare machines! I was just going to say I could collect your welding gloves and screen and post them over to you! :thumbs_up: ...

i wish i had taken photographs of the letourneau crane that i seen in the john brown shipyard in glasgow. it was about 8 years ago , this machine reminds me of it. i remember there was a spare engine in a crate. it was the first letourneau i seen in the flesh!.

fantastic pics!!, id love to be on the welding team!, right up my street!. do you have any pics of the big orange beasts at mt k ?? id love to see some pics or vids of these rare machines!

yeah, here she is as she how she left the quarry with a few rushed runs of weld holding her belly togeather! her back was broken completeley! look how the crack goes all the way to the top! http://www.classicmachinery.net/forum/images/post_img/20091069004be7ceab906ef.jpg URL of the original image: h...

Yes Allistair I know that dumper. There is allot of history with that dumper coming in from England as a full factory re-con. But im glad to say that I have never turned a spanner on that one. The roads and lanes to your workshops still bare the scars of her passing! Do you have before and after sh...