The Poclain Thread "Vive le France"!!

[slimswede]

Hello all
i just bought me an poclain tx 1971 , and i wounder if anyone have an usermanual or workshop manual for this machine.

[clockworklozenge1]

Hello all, If anyone is interested over on the french photos.tp website there is a chap who is currently rebuilding and repainting a beautiful 1000ck backhoe excavator (150 tons + !!) - he has already rebuilt a 610 back to factory quality- and Ipersonally cant wait to see his finished 1000 excavator......

[Holger]

Link?

[TaylorLambert]

I remeber as a kid in the 1980's I saw a few red Poclains and many Case Poclain machines are still on farms. Im fascinated by Poclains many inventions they had in all feilds. Hydraulic,logging, and grab building.

[Hugh Jaleak]

Spotted a 60 (I think) on a farm near me. It hasn't moved in months, and sadly is too far from the road to get anything other than a photo of the back end.

Kimbell Construction of Northampton used to run a number of Poclain Rubber Ducks, (and Akerman tracked machines) all of which were painted in Kimbell's blue livery. Spent many hours as a child watching 2 of the Poclains (SNV 78 W and AVV 159 S - anyone who understands registration plates will work out the era!) working in the town centre laying new sewers. Unfortunately no photo's.

One memorable moment, the driver had left the boom up in the air, with machine switched off, and gone for tea. One of the senior members of staff (shirt and tie) got into the cab. His weight was sufficient to unbalance the machine which then began to slew under gravity, until the bucket linkage came to rest against the wall of a shop, narrowly missing the plate gless windows and shoppers heads! Luckily no damage other than a scrape to the brickwork of the shop.

[Hugh Jaleak]

Either I need to go to Specsavers or there isn't a link to this site in the thread..... Some superb Poclain info and pictures. http://www.poclainexcavator.be/

[streetfighter1969]

Great thread guy's - here are some pics of my Case 488 poclain. I am slowly fixing things and getting the old girl better and better. I bought this for my house build due to having over 2000 square m plot that is quite contoured i needed a decent size of machine to cope. Hope you like - she looks slightly different now with writing all repainted (by hand) and cleaned up. I am also working on the cab to re-insulate and smarten things up a bit, plus fixing some electrics.

[streetfighter1969]

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[Richard S]

What a fantastic thread with some great pictures.
I have just bought a TCS for restoration and the machine is in quite good con'd with no parts missing and all running ok
The man I bought it from had it for over 30yrs and it is a credit to him
I will try and post some pictures
Regards
Richard S

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[Holger]

Very welcome to CMN Richard!

I have added the pictures one by one so that they can be watched directly. I hope you dont mind!