Abandoned

[mikep]

Got a 1964 mini cooper S 970. 63 997 cooper. 1959 mini super and a woody. All been through junk stage and refused to sell.
Would be £25,000 worse off now if I had and only racking up each year. Appreciation keeps pace with any deteriation

 

[mikep]

Long leaver hy mac probably no one could drive it.

I can drive my long lever Hymac but not anything modern. Still thinking about changing pipework to make it ISO controls so can get used to that and drive anything. It's a one day job like most of my life.

 

[H200GT]

I can drive my long lever Hymac but not anything modern. Still thinking about changing pipework to make it ISO controls so can get used to that and drive anything. It's a one day job like most of my life.

For some reason it does not work like that. I learned to drive a JCB 3c first, then onto excavators as i grew up. I can drive X pattern JCB with the long levers and ISO excavators with my eyes closed, but put me in an ISO JCB with long levers and i go completely to pot. Its as if my brain knows how to move the levers depending on their position.

 

[Mursal]

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[Ray996]

For some reason it does not work like that. I learned to drive a JCB 3c first, then onto excavators as i grew up. I can drive X pattern JCB with the long levers and ISO excavators with my eyes closed, but put me in an ISO JCB with long levers and i go completely to pot. Its as if my brain knows how to move the levers depending on their position.

Could never get the hang of JCB 3 CX x pattern levers,but MF 50 hx was a doddle to work and a better machine IMO!

 

[multi power]

Every body seems to complain about the 4 levers on the old mf diggers, I can work them all day long with my eyes shut

 

[Ray996]

Every body seems to complain about the 4 levers on the old mf diggers, I can work them all day long with my eyes shut

Remember the old ford 4550 ,you had to learn hill climbing in them,totally fkd after day ditching with it

 

[Kevtherev]

I learned on 4 lever fords at 4 years old
Memories!

 

[glasshouse]

I really is strange why they won't sell they never seem to have any interest or intentions for the machines , then at the end of the day they end up dying then it becomes someone's problem to tidy up by which time they have deteriorated more or less beyond redemption, and are only any good for scrap

Mind you, if nobody hung onto old tractors, there wouldnt be any vintage ones around.
i watched a good prog on old railway stuff, and the only place the enthusiasts could get an old steam engine was in barry in wales where the scrap bloke hadnt got round to cutting them up.

 

[multi power]

Remember the old ford 4550 ,you had to learn hill climbing in them,totally fkd after day ditching with it

Mf 203x for me, way better than spear and Jackson

 

[Ray996]

I learned on 4 lever fords at 4 years old
Memories!

Spoilt now operating cat312c ,lovely wee digger

 

[smcapstick]

Mf 203x for me, way better than spear and Jackson

Any digger is

 

[multi power]

Then I got a 20 year old jcb 805b, I thought it was the dog's rubbish

 

[sawdust]

The 2cx I worked was X pattern on the left hand and + pattern on the right

 

[JWL]

I never forget many years ago as a student after a long day of muck spreading with my 185 on the Rotorspreader loading it with the MF148 with a trip loader. Then off doing some ditching and clearing up with the 50B untill hometime. I jumped in the boss's Mazda pickup with the column change to get back to the yard where my van was parked. Got behind the wheel of my Hillman Husky van and promptly ripped the indicator stalk off trying to put it in reverse

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Any digger is

With the possible exception of some of the REALLY cheap Chinese cheap ones

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Makes me greet when you see a combine lying out all winter/year.

There's one in Anglesey been sitting there for years.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

There are loads of people with stuff quietly dissolving in their fields and yards. If you approach them with an offer, though, you don't half get short shrift from m them.

I just don't get it. Why have something, have no use for it and think so little of it that you're happy to watch it crumble in to dust, yet refuse to let it go? It makes no sense at all.

The handful that are possibly game to sell always want a truly insane figure for their ruined hulk, too. I chap I know bid a chap at a basket case series three Land Rover - I thought his figure of £1,000 was pretty fair. The vendor wanted £7,000!

I had an s2 lr. The guy who took it said it was the 8th s2 built, first day's production. He got it for nothing. I must try and get in touch to see how the restoration went.

 

[Weasel]

I learned on 4 lever fords at 4 years old
Memories!

Used to have a Whitlock 805, it had about 6 levers for the back actor iirc

 

[Mursal]

Piano controls, apparently .........