Unloved and possibly forgotten about JCB's

[Joes1989]

Just thought id start a topic about all the poor old vintage JCB backhoes that are just laying around being left to rot that by rights should be being restored to their former glory......

This is what im assuming is a 3C MkII? has been sat in the same position for at least 3 years.....its sitting in what was an old scrap yard i think....there is also an old JCB loading shovel there too but i couldnt get a good picture of that....

URL of the original image: http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l291/JCB_JOE/IMGP2768.jpg


Please feel free to post your pictures of neglected and/or unused machine in here!

Cheers

Joe

[Martyn Henley]

Hi Joe ... so that 3Cmk1 has been sitting there for 3 years eh ... dont look in bad nick either ..what is the loading shovel ?


Martyn

[newjcb123uk]

Joe - I'm gonna just love this thread - I find old diggers like this waiting on resuscitation just fasinating

Heres my first pic - probably from an old e-bay advert

[newjcb123uk]

And some more

[newjcb123uk]

And a few extras

[Joes1989]

yeh that 3C has been sat in that same position for at least 3 years! Looks to be in decent order but thats as close as i can get to it unfortunately!

I dont actually no the model number of the loader but i would say it would be around the 10 tonne mark.....

[Mark.Rive]

Here's one I rescued before Christmas, now moved to my work, the cab is off and she's waiting for me to get going on her.

[Mark.Rive]

and here's one of my donor machines, a build 3 3DII, this has supplied the internal plastic excavator cover,
I've also removed the starter, injection pump, loader & excavator controls and a few other parts. The loader arms and wheels are next

[Mark.Rive]

Tracked this one down for parts, but she's too far gone. Owner wants her removed from site, but it would be more hassle than its worth. All the pipe work is removed or disconnected only the back-acter is worth saving, but all the rams are rusty. Shes' a 3dII from 72, and had parallel arms, but they've been replaced with normal loader arms. Dont like to see machines left to rot like this Mark

[Andy Duncan]

Hi guys have'nt posted before but just noticed the 3c111 reg GSU 23T was the neighbour of the 3c111 I cut my teeth with, reg being GSU 22T. Machine I drove belonged to a chap called Angus Jordan Jcb hire, from Craigrothie near St Andrews in Fife Scotland. Gus bought the machine from Scot Jcb Dundee in about the mid eightys I started with Gus as a rookie in 1989 and drove it for a year for him then moved to another firm ganing experience then finished up with the council in 1993 and still there operating a 54 plate 3cx.