Backhoe replacement

[Martin Holden]

Isn’t that the truth

 

[Fools Gold]

That’s it, the need to follow fashion and the crowd, stand still long enough you’ll get them running past you again in the opposite direction!

 

[Renaultman]

That’s it, the need to follow fashion and the crowd, stand still long enough you’ll get them running past you again in the opposite direction!

That's always been my strategy, or, by the time I can afford something, it has gone out of fashion. Making our 1960s JCB 6D the height of current fashion. ( It's not actually mine, it's my dad's hobby/toy that often comes in really useful, alongside the backhoe, telehandler and micro digger. Nothing under 10 years old)

 

[Fools Gold]

My father built a dribble bar for his open top slurry tanker 30odd years ago using lay flat hose and sprung pinch clamps to get it to empty evenly the combination of pump filling and impeller emptying meant the slurry was cut up enough for it to work perfectly, a vacuum tanker purchase rendered it scrap as it kept blocking, folk said he was mad dribbling slurry down the field in lines!
ive just taken delivery of a very expensive dribble bar and macerator for the tanker, he looked it over shook his head and shuffled off

 

[Lincsman]

Yes i think it has.along with the fact that as the old operators retire the youngsters struggle to use them.a good man on a 180 is worth his weight in gold and they are very versatile machines as mentioned above
nick...

Therein lies the problem, no one is getting a "ticket" to drive them as it isnt easy, so not point in buying them if there are no drivers, and construction sites dont mind paying a fee to lowloader a digger to site.