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Looks very smart! Thanks for sharing.

Joes1989 wrote:GAP use Cat minis too! We used to use them occasionally and had a few of the cats on hire!

Hmm I haven't seen any of those yet. The only non-Kubota plant I've seen from GAP are their site dumpers lol. Thanks for letting me know.

Nice looking bit of kit! GAP seems to be a big user of Kubota excavators, in fact I don't think I've seen any other make with their logo on it. Never managed to visit their depot though to see what they have. The impressions I get from speaking to drivers on these machines are fairly highly rated th...

Not sure of the exact dates of JCB 801.4 model production but actions of the machines I've found range from late 1990's to around 2003/2004.

I agree that the JCB 802 does look pretty similar to the Kubota KH-28, you may be onto something there! Thanks.

Argh, why do I type before thinking things through properly...:doh: One of my greatest regrets about taking pictures of plant was not getting a picture of a Hymac 181B excavator when I had the chance (always another time kind of thing). Not sure why I thought that the FAI machines were anything othe...

can you post a pic of it I wasn't sure if you were just after a picture of the machine on the front page or the whole thing so...minus the last page which doesn't really have much information anyway here's the front page, the link under that takes you to my photobucket account and the other 3 pages...

hair bear wrote:The Dexta is I believe one of only three ever made... could well be the only survivor.

A real rare piece of history then! I hope it finds a good home.

when did the jcb mini excavators come out I remember as a kid having a joal model of a jcb 801 but ive never seen a real one I have an early brochure for the 802 dated 1984 so must have been early 1980's then. I also remember reading somewhere that this machine wasn't a JCB design either, but a re-...

Just found the following couple of examples on eBay, ironically looking for anything Morooka-related at the time. :roll: http://i.ebayimg.com/t/COUNTY-SUPER-4-TRACTOR-16500-/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/POEAAOxyFjNSNMs2/$(KGrHqF,!q8FIzOcQgp9BSNMst,s)!~~60_57.JPG County Super 4 tractor [img]http://i.ebayimg.c...

Hymac departed from its historical "British designed" lineage when it started producing FAI-designed excavators with the launch of its 121/141/181 series of excavators. However are there any designs we know of which would have replaced the 80/90-series of excavators (580/590/1080/1290, etc...