Chipping Steam Fair 2023

[Jeremy Rowland]

This event never fails to provide something new and certainly attract the crowds; the Classic Plant working field is as ever popular with the public, star of this event for me is the 1985 Caterpillar 215B LC excavator which has been restored and is jointly owned by Geoff Pinder and Stuart Walsh, she did give some excellent displays until a hydraulic hose failed, I'm sure the machine will be back in action tomorrow.
Mark Thistlethwaite also brought along three machines, all JCB; a nice 1987 3CX, his nicely restored 814 and a long reach version of the same machine.
I will post more photos soon.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Rowland]

Just had an error trying to upload pictures (Note to self "inform Holger")

Lets try some more.

[Jeremy Rowland]

Last lot for a bit.

If you are quite local to Preston then this show is on tomorrow and on the bank holiday Monday so well worth a visit.





One last thing;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjfQ8kNAno

A link to the Cat at work.

Jeremy

[essexpete]

Thank you Jeremy. The long reach looks in very nice order.

[Jeremy Rowland]

Thank you Jeremy. The long reach looks in very nice order.

Pete, it was in its working cloths as bought so no resto

Jeremy

[Jeremy Rowland]

A few from today; lots more to share plus more clips to upload.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Rowland]

A few more but more to come when the chance presents itself.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Rowland]

Here's a link to the JCB long-reach machine in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx6chuvfC3s

Jeremy

[Jeremy Rowland]

A few more photos.

Jeremy

[essexpete]

The long reach is still a quick old machine. There is something not quite right with the dipper set up on my 814S. It is slow pulling in the dipper, all other services and dipper out seem normal.