It’s big, its yellow, its dirty and its quite clever! It’s a bad,
bad boy. It’s our 1973 JCB.
It’s very handy to have
a powerful and versatile machine like this on the farm. It's engine is a 4
cylinder diesel that in its heyday, pumped out 76HP. It's still going strong after 39 years of service. Sometimes however it does need a little work and here we see the injectors being
removed for checking. We have just treated it to a new battery and fuel filters
and will shortly be changing the air filter and throttle and stop cables. That should
just about do it for another 39 years!
Last may we built a fab new bridge to ford the Cam Brook, that meanders
through the farm. The JCB was right in there lifting the finished item into
place. Note that it works best with several people standing nearby, studiously watching and
offering advice.
The JCB is used for
moving heavy items around, digging out banks and ditches, lifting work, banging in large posts, digging trenches, shifting manure
and all sorts of other random things.
Long live the Beast of Radford!
Clearly the Bridge is the Beauty to go with the Beast..
ReplyDeleteClearly and unequivocally... although they both get you from A to B...
DeleteYour JCB is doing a great job from last 39 years. It's really hard to handle this machinery, but they make our work more easy.
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