JCB 3cx Project 7/8/12 around Somerset?

[Jcbfan]

Black will do. Grey would be perfect

 

[Mursal]

When you say Grey that's the one with the sloping side window towards the back, instead of cut dead square in the black cab? Or am I proper mixed up ........
They don't come cheap .............
20 here for a nice one .............

 

[Jcbfan]

Your getting confused with the Project 8/12 and the 7. The 8 and 12 had the curved rear side windows and the 7 was straight cut. The 7 had white, black and grey cabs. The cabs symboled a kind of facelift where they improved the machine as such

 

[Jcbfan]

Project 7 can be had from £3000 to £8000. 8 from £8000 to £20000 and 12 from £15000 to £25000

 

[essexpete]

Your getting confused with the Project 8/12 and the 7. The 8 and 12 had the curved rear side windows and the 7 was straight cut. The 7 had white, black and grey cabs. The cabs symboled a kind of facelift where they improved the machine as such

I thought the early 3CX was a project 6?

 

[Mursal]

What happened the first 5, I wonder ....................
The six might be the black cab with no hub reduction on the back, but that's a guess ............

 

[essexpete]

I think the 5 might refer to the 3C111 Powertrain it was certainly known as Build 5

 

[Mursal]

Ah I see, didn't know the numbers went back further than 3CX .........

 

[Jcbfan]

I'm not sure about the older ones again. P7 and above was what I was bought up on

 

[8100]

Two up north for sale ? Bit of a drive home though
https://www.gumtree.com/plant-tractors/uk/jcb+3cx

 

[Jcbfan]

Cheers. They all seem to be miles away. Found one but it needs a huge amount of work

 

[Mursal]

Well you do like to tinker ..................
But then there's tinkering and there's tinkering .......

 

[essexpete]

If you could find the right one £5-600 transport might be cheap against the cost of spares.

 

[Jcbfan]

Yeah true, but this one needed going right over it. It needed a lot just to get it moving correctly again and the money didn't warrant the work needed for the machine

 

[Lincs Lass]

Good one for you ,of FB
to Northwest Agricultural And Plant Machinery Sell And Seek
1 hr ·
Jcb 3cx
£6000
Located Blackburn

 

[Traffic dodger]

is there much work done by these jcb,s now ? They used to be a common site besides the roads doing waterboard work etc. Now they all seem to use small 360 machines .

 

[Mursal]

Yes all 360's now, they are a thing of the past for utilities, but have their place.
Cheap digging compared to a 360 that you can pull with a van ...........

 

[Lincsman]

is there much work done by these jcb,s now ? They used to be a common site besides the roads doing waterboard work etc. Now they all seem to use small 360 machines .

Towing their own mini digger is way cheaper than me charging 8 hours for 15 mins work with a backhoe and home for lunch.... unfortunately!

 

[Lincs Lass]

is there much work done by these jcb,s now ? They used to be a common site besides the roads doing waterboard work etc. Now they all seem to use small 360 machines .

Owner driver guy here changes his back actor every couple of years ,,wheeled machine is quicker and handier for him as hes often in the oil refinery 2 days a week ,building sites ,farm jobs ,,had both JCB and Cat ,cat was nothing but trouble and Jcb dont fair much better

 

[Jcbfan]

Cheers Lincs Lass.

I will try and find that one.

We always found area to be very handy. We wish we never sold it, replaced with a 13t volvo slew and had a 3 t and 8t slew as well. The 3cx was much easier to get to s job, could do more tasks and found to be a more reliable machine.