JCB 2B

[JP1]

Presumably the weight was all in the wrong place for this to take off ?

 

[X344chap]

Its a yellow Leyland is it not? - Leyland back end and engine?

Edit - apparently the 3/42 or 3/45 Nuffield skid unit with the 2D version having the 70hp Nuffield/Leyland engine.

 

[76masseyman]

Would have been a half decent cab to be in compared to a lot from that era.

 

[spark plug]

I had a international 2wd industrial loader tractor, in essence not too dissimilar to the 2b, it was an excellent loader on the concrete, but show it some wet grass and you’d be better off with a BMW in the snow. It was just totally balanced wrong, had to do everything with 1/2 ton of concrete on the link arms and at times that wasn’t enough.

 

[startinghandle]

The 2B was available as optional detachable back actor and use as tractor as I remember reading in Allan Condie book on JCB

 

[Forever Fendt]

A mate had one and put Nuffield tractor back end in it so it had a diff lock

 

[BobGreen]

Farm I started work at bought one in 1980 for some digging work. Used it for years for a lot of work including digging out silage for feeding Think it was made in 62. Used it to dig out snowdrift in 82 Hard work as front bucket wasn’t as wide as front wheels
Think it went as scrap weighed about 6 tonne

 

[essexpete]

Farm I started work at bought one in 1980 for some digging work. Used it for years for a lot of work including digging out silage for feeding Think it was made in 62. Used it to dig out snowdrift in 82 Hard work as front bucket wasn’t as wide as front wheels
Think it went as scrap weighed about 6 tonne

Think it might have been post 64 with a Nuffield skid.

 

[essexpete]

I reckon the 2B would have benefitted by a quick detach bucket to reduce the front end weight.

 

[BobGreen]

Think it might have been post 64 with a Nuffield skid.

Probably. Thinking it had a C reg would that be about 64

 

[essexpete]

Probably. Thinking it had a C reg would that be about 64

65

 

[Exfarmer]

The early MF diggers were the same in that they could in theory drop the back actor off and used as a tractor. Exactly the same too as @spark plug said as good as a BMW in snow off concrete. We too, used to put a very large concrete weight on the back for shifting bales etc. without it the back wheels hardly touched the ground.

 

[glasshouse]

I had a international 2wd industrial loader tractor, in essence not too dissimilar to the 2b, it was an excellent loader on the concrete, but show it some wet grass and you’d be better off with a BMW in the snow. It was just totally balanced wrong, had to do everything with 1/2 ton of concrete on the link arms and at times that wasn’t enough.

All two wheel drive loader tractors need a weight on the back, its simple physics.
They also need big front wheels
I put 10-24 front wheels on a ford 6610, totally transformed it