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AusDave
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After a long time reading without posting my own thread since CEF, I thought the introduction of a new machine would be a good time to kick things off.
A recent missed phone call which I rang back on was from a complete stranger on the other side of Australia, over 4,000 km away. He knew from my thread on Heavy Equipment Forums that I had JCB 1CX compact backhoes and that he was selling one. He had had it up for auction in Perth but hadn't reached his reserve and wondered if I was interested.
I was aware of the machine being auctioned and was interested in what had happened to it, and now it was being offered to me. I wasn't actually looking for another 1CX but this one was a good example with only 230 hours on the clock. Originally purchased by a construction company for road maintenance with a road planer fitted, it now had a 3rd party 4in1 bucket on the front, a 300mm toothed bucket on the hoe end and a 1m ditching bucket that was like new. It also came with a 2m spreader bar designed to be grabbed by the 4in1 bucket and was fully mining company specced with safety shutoffs, fire extinguisher, extendable dipper on the hoe, separate 100 ltr per minute high flow hydraulic circuit, hydraulic quick hitch on the backhoe, radio, UHF radio and air conditioning.
Anyway After a bit of negotiation I bought the machine. Prior to buying I did get the machine checked out by JCB who found it was as described and seemed to be good value for what I paid. Getting the machine 4,000km across the country wasn't too hard or expensive as there are b-double semi-trailers going fully loaded from my east coast location to the west but no so much coming back from west to east. So the cost to ship the 1CX and attachments was only $1800, under £1000. I had to drive 3 hours to Sydney in my truck to pick it up but that's not a big deal.
So here's some pics below. Had to do a few minor repairs, the aircon compressor mount was poorly done and hanging by one bolt so I improved the mount area, threaded it for larger bolts and rebolted it. Replaced one broken side mirror, removed the roof tank which was used for road planer dust suppression and fixed the backhoe boom lock.
Have used it for a couple of hours and all seems good. A few surface rust areas to fix courtesy of JCB's attention to paint quality ... Not
Apart from that I hope to get a good many years of trouble free usage out of such a low hour machine. Though I'll be doing all the tight work in the bush and shrubbery with my open cab 1CX, don't want to break glass or take out any of the many lights on this machine
A recent missed phone call which I rang back on was from a complete stranger on the other side of Australia, over 4,000 km away. He knew from my thread on Heavy Equipment Forums that I had JCB 1CX compact backhoes and that he was selling one. He had had it up for auction in Perth but hadn't reached his reserve and wondered if I was interested.
I was aware of the machine being auctioned and was interested in what had happened to it, and now it was being offered to me. I wasn't actually looking for another 1CX but this one was a good example with only 230 hours on the clock. Originally purchased by a construction company for road maintenance with a road planer fitted, it now had a 3rd party 4in1 bucket on the front, a 300mm toothed bucket on the hoe end and a 1m ditching bucket that was like new. It also came with a 2m spreader bar designed to be grabbed by the 4in1 bucket and was fully mining company specced with safety shutoffs, fire extinguisher, extendable dipper on the hoe, separate 100 ltr per minute high flow hydraulic circuit, hydraulic quick hitch on the backhoe, radio, UHF radio and air conditioning.
Anyway After a bit of negotiation I bought the machine. Prior to buying I did get the machine checked out by JCB who found it was as described and seemed to be good value for what I paid. Getting the machine 4,000km across the country wasn't too hard or expensive as there are b-double semi-trailers going fully loaded from my east coast location to the west but no so much coming back from west to east. So the cost to ship the 1CX and attachments was only $1800, under £1000. I had to drive 3 hours to Sydney in my truck to pick it up but that's not a big deal.
So here's some pics below. Had to do a few minor repairs, the aircon compressor mount was poorly done and hanging by one bolt so I improved the mount area, threaded it for larger bolts and rebolted it. Replaced one broken side mirror, removed the roof tank which was used for road planer dust suppression and fixed the backhoe boom lock.
Have used it for a couple of hours and all seems good. A few surface rust areas to fix courtesy of JCB's attention to paint quality ... Not
Apart from that I hope to get a good many years of trouble free usage out of such a low hour machine. Though I'll be doing all the tight work in the bush and shrubbery with my open cab 1CX, don't want to break glass or take out any of the many lights on this machine
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look forward to hearing more about her.
