A few for the old and bold!

[CraigPlant]

Heres a few toys i found in Afghanistan last year. Guessing they where left over from the Americans in the 70's. Anyone name them?








And heres yours truly with a special piece of machinery from JCB, Anyone familiar with it?

[Muz]

Cool I'm guessing HCC doesent stand for Hampshire County Council wonder what it does stand for ?

[ianoz]

The Hitachi with the burnt cab looks like a UH series .
Grader looks to be a Cat 14
The Scraper ,a cat DW20 .
Bert may be able to ID the other excavators , or disagree with my IDs .

[245dlc]

I think you meant the Russians in the seventies but those two old excavators could be Demag which use to be a German make of excavator until Komatsu took them over. Either that or something made in one of the former eastern bloc countries. The Hitachi is definitely an "EX" series possibly a EX200.

[CraigPlant]

Yep meant the russians, been a long day!

[Stock]

HMEE........ a high speed rubbertyred digger for convoy use..............

[CraigPlant]

Among other things yes! Spent 8 months couped up inside that thing, best bit of machinery i have ever used!

[245dlc]

How was the visibility in that JCB thing with all the armour? Those high speed backhoes aren't a bad idea just to bad they're so expensive.

[CraigPlant]

Limited vis but you do get used to it. Managed 75mph out of mine!

[245dlc]

Wow!

[seanlogie]

What a bloody waste...i hate seeing old plant just left to disintegrate like that ....

[Muz]

Wow!

+1

you gotta be kidding

[245dlc]

The development of a backhoe's that can travel that fast has been going on for a little while now Canada bought something similar using Case components like the backhoe and the loader but was all built in country here.

[ianoz]

Australia has it's own version too .I posted a link to it somewhere on the forum .

[CraigPlant]

Yea it was designed to keep up with the rest of the convoy that it worked with.