Whitlock 505 and poclain

[Ianto36]

Hi great to meet everybody at Hillhead yesterday! fantastic show, so i thought i would post some of my photos from down the years. Bit of a varied selection and if someone thinks they should go in a different place feel free to move to different topics.

Me cutting my teeth on my grandfathers Whitlock 505B on our self build development in Tonyrefail South Wales.


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Whoops we broke the digging ram clean out of the top!!! too much power


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Stripped down awaiting repair just a loader at the minute!


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Parked up having a well earned rest! 40 ton of scalpings waiting


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Poclain 60 on the same site


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and again back view




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my granfathers yard before i was let loose on the Whitlock!



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This is where i was digging with the Whitlock


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Look at the price of the road tax for 12 months in 1970 on the logbook for the D1000 turbo Ford D Series in the photo above......... if only



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Finally for the time being one of my father with his brand new Leyland 2421 constructor mixer, hadn't even done a load at this point

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[Jeremy Rowland]

Always love to see old photo's Ian many thanks for sharing.

Jeremy

[Martyn Henley]

Hi Ian, the third photo down, the 505 parked up, do my eyes deceive me but is the dipper missing ?

great photos

Martyn

[Ianto36]

Hi Ian, the third photo down, the 505 parked up, do my eyes deceive me but is the dipper missing ?

great photos

Martyn

Hi Martin, you are right the dipper arm is missing!. We broke the original dipper ram digging through some incredibly hard ground and stone. We tried to repair it but there was so much power in the back end of a Whitlock that she just ripped the ram apart!.If you look closely at the photo above you will see that we had to run hydraulic pipes right the way up the boom because when the ram broke she sheared the metal pipes across the boom which came out either side!. We then found a fella who had an interest inold JCB's and he adapted an old JCB ram to fit and rebushed the dipper arm while he was doing the ram.

[Neversweat]

Great pics - Thanks

Steve

[FOWLER MAN]

Hi Ian,
Great pics. thanks for posting.
I wish I had taken pics. of my old 605 Whitlock.
Thanks for your company at Hillhead too, it was a great day out.
Fred

[essexpete]

Great photos, thanks for sharing.

[Ian Fletcher1970]

Hi Ian,
Nice to meet you at Hillhead on Wednesday - Ian

[topkit]

What a great set of old picures thanks for sharing them, there is something nice and simple about the older machines, i wish i had taken more photos during the 70's. If you have anymore pics please post them.

[dawn killian]

Hi Ian Great pics, check out my Hy-Mac /whitlock on u tube under (Hy-Mac 570 1974 digger) purchased
new by me in 1974 still own it used in southampton area for 6 yrs in ireland since 1980 James