Classics Earning their keep.

will_mck

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My Trusty 399 that I used to one pass with for 15 years, who needs a 300hp Fendt?
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Tomtrac

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Location
Penrith cumbria
The old JCB3c but with a BMC 4 cylinder fitted instead off a 3 cyl
And for this year a pin and cone quick hitch and a ex case toe tip bucket on.

A step up from driving up a ramp made out off sleepers to reach into the gritters
Old faithful push excess fuel button in and never misses on start up
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no electrics just put it on charge once a week but do need to get charging side sorted (oh and wiper or push windscreen out lol
 

jf850

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Location
Co laois
The old JCB3c but with a BMC 4 cylinder fitted instead off a 3 cyl
And for this year a pin and cone quick hitch and a ex case toe tip bucket on.

A step up from driving up a ramp made out off sleepers to reach into the gritters
Old faithful push excess fuel button in and never misses on start upView attachment 854148View attachment 854149View attachment 854150
no electrics just put it on charge once a week but do need to get charging side sorted (oh and wiper or push windscreen out lol

If that's a 3C , it would always have had a 4 cyl engine . The 2B had the 3 cylinder BMC engine .

Some useless information.

An uncle of mine brought over an old G reg 3C11 , the same as that from Manchester, in November 1976 . It had a recon engine , was tidy enough and fairly sure he gave £1800 for it over there . It went off for scrap about 10 years ago , after a few years of idleness. Engine a virtual 2 stroke , and cab fell apart .
When he bought the 3C , he sold an old 4C that he had brought over about 1971. Big heavy clumsy thing , built on a Major . No levelling Jack's , the whole back actor raised up and down on a parallel linkage with a huge ram.
It had 2 tilt rams on the front loader, but many had only 1 central tilt ram.
 

Renaultman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
The old JCB3c but with a BMC 4 cylinder fitted instead off a 3 cyl
And for this year a pin and cone quick hitch and a ex case toe tip bucket on.

A step up from driving up a ramp made out off sleepers to reach into the gritters
Old faithful push excess fuel button in and never misses on start upView attachment 854148View attachment 854149View attachment 854150
no electrics just put it on charge once a week but do need to get charging side sorted (oh and wiper or push windscreen out lol
Put a couple of eBay solar panels on the roof, cheaper than an alternator.
 

Tomtrac

Member
Location
Penrith cumbria
Ps , looking at your picture again , I'd say it is a 2B , maybe even a 3 . It seems smaller than the 3C .
That is a huge bucket , for the size of the digger .

Ok ok
Thanks yeh thinking off it i think the guy who sold it me 2-3 years ago may off said it was a 2b
chassie has a red part welded in as it had a 4cyl put in and booms plated up at least i think so.full plates top and sides to the start off crowd rams
Yes bucket is large and far far to far in front but on salt it just fills bottom when wheels slip and then it has loads off room to slide back in bucket aas you lift unless u level as lifting booms but it was a £350 toe tip so cheap as so its ok
 

wdah/him

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Location
tyrone
can depend where u are when u allowed to spread, we in NI are among the last out.

was down in Galway on sunday fair bit done and in good conditions we get snow now and I doubt conditions will be good on the 1st February
 

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