Hi from Newbie with dumper ID questions
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 7:21 pm
Hi Everyone,
First post from a forum ‘newbie’ and a request for help as I’ve just taken possession of a new (to me) dumper.
I’m about to start some serious landscaping and I’m feed up with being fleeced for delivery of aggregates when I can see the quarry gates from my house and can get to them via farm tracks so from now on I collect myself! I’ve spend the last few years with classic cars and Landrovers but am no stranger to heaver stuff having spent my latter teenage years (albeit forty years ago) over and inside Ruston two foot gauge locos; so I am looking forward to sorting out some odds and ends before I put my dumper to work. It had the attractions of good (not cracked or perished) rubber and has been converted to electric start.
I’m in the process of trying to identify the model and age. I had assumed from the tinwork it was a Winget Muir-Hill but the cast weight on the front chassis crossmember is branded Winget.
The engine is a Petter ph1 with a number a little over 36000. Some sites say these were produced from 1956 others from 1960.
Five stud front axels and 3 stud rears.
Box on the back has battery for electric start with tow hitch through the starting handle access.
Its carrying layers and layers and layers of paint but the base colour (as seen underneath lying on the floor) on both engine and chassis is, I would say, Muir Hill red.
I can’t find a chassis plate or a number stamped into the chassis. What should I be looking and where? If I can find it I’ll try Winget for the build history. Can you help me out with model and chassis number please.
First post from a forum ‘newbie’ and a request for help as I’ve just taken possession of a new (to me) dumper.
I’m about to start some serious landscaping and I’m feed up with being fleeced for delivery of aggregates when I can see the quarry gates from my house and can get to them via farm tracks so from now on I collect myself! I’ve spend the last few years with classic cars and Landrovers but am no stranger to heaver stuff having spent my latter teenage years (albeit forty years ago) over and inside Ruston two foot gauge locos; so I am looking forward to sorting out some odds and ends before I put my dumper to work. It had the attractions of good (not cracked or perished) rubber and has been converted to electric start.
I’m in the process of trying to identify the model and age. I had assumed from the tinwork it was a Winget Muir-Hill but the cast weight on the front chassis crossmember is branded Winget.
The engine is a Petter ph1 with a number a little over 36000. Some sites say these were produced from 1956 others from 1960.
Five stud front axels and 3 stud rears.
Box on the back has battery for electric start with tow hitch through the starting handle access.
Its carrying layers and layers and layers of paint but the base colour (as seen underneath lying on the floor) on both engine and chassis is, I would say, Muir Hill red.
I can’t find a chassis plate or a number stamped into the chassis. What should I be looking and where? If I can find it I’ll try Winget for the build history. Can you help me out with model and chassis number please.