Everyone ready for a laugh ?

[Quattromike]

It's an 802 mate. I guess around 1984ish as some fcuking pikey has removed the data plate! Believe it was the first JCB 'mini digger' and had a kubota undercarriage with a JCB upper. Not had to do a lot to do to it, had one bottom roller that had seized and needed new bearings and new seals in the rams, that's about it, although there's not a lot else that moves on it .

That looks like a handy shifter I could do with one o they

 

[tinydigger]

Thanks guys. You’re pretty much confirming what I’d thought. I suppose I’d rather hoped that someone may have had the same thoughts. I hadn’t considered the CE complications or the spares problem. I guess you’ve all saved me a lot of money. I had thought about hiring but all the jobs are a nuisance and it would have been handier to have one handy to use as and when. I fully expect to sell it after the job is done but felt nervous at buying one that’s possibly seen better days.
To answer JD450A. Near Attleborough, Norfolk.
Thanks for all the advice so far guys.

nice to have another norfolk body on here i am just down the road in norwich. have spent a lot of time around attleborough as used to work for gap hire and would spend a lot of time on the new builds and also the gm piling yard.

 

[Bob]

I go to Attleborough every week to visit my outlaws and can't believe all the house building going on there ,Doubling the size from 4thou to 8 thou in a few years .That will change the place

 

[Nick...]

I go to Attleborough every week to visit my outlaws and can't believe all the house building going on there ,Doubling the size from 4thou to 8 thou in a few years .That will change the place

Went through attleborough last summer and was gobsmacked by all the building.only live 6 miles away but rarely go there.wymondham is just as bad and i work there a lot.I’m certain in next 10 years wymondham will join hethersett on Norwich side and attleborough on south side.no idea who is gonna live there or be able to buy them though
nick…

 

[V8Druid]

everywhere around here is the same ... houses going up in places that wouldn't have been considered 10-15 years ago .. and some crazy prices for legoland boxes

 

[Stebbo]

Have to agree with the above re housing. Mushrooms come to mind. I’m actually just outside Attleborough, it’s my nearest town, but even the villages are as bad. Why oh why do they have to build them all the same apart from changing the tile colour on one or two on the same development. Even the bricks are all the same colour with maybe one or two being rendered. If only the developers would get together and swop a design or two to break up the “Lego look” ? Rant over. I just feel desperately sorry for our grandchildren who probably won’t be able to afford them anyway.

 

[Smiffy]

Have to agree with the above re housing. Mushrooms come to mind. I’m actually just outside Attleborough, it’s my nearest town, but even the villages are as bad. Why oh why do they have to build them all the same apart from changing the tile colour on one or two on the same development. Even the bricks are all the same colour with maybe one or two being rendered. If only the developers would get together and swop a design or two to break up the “Lego look” ? Rant over. I just feel desperately sorry for our grandchildren who probably won’t be able to afford them anyway.

I think alot of people must actually like it. They live in there uniform house drive their uniform cars. Dress the same decorate the interior the same. Do the same mundain jobs have the same yappy little dog and all watch football on a Sunday.

They built one of these estates in our village and we sometimes walk through it to get to the footpaths behind. It is the most boring place imaginable.

 

[Lancs Lad]

I think alot of people must actually like it. They live in there uniform house drive their uniform cars. Dress the same decorate the interior the same. Do the same mundain jobs have the same yappy little dog and all watch football on a Sunday.

They built one of these estates in our village and we sometimes walk through it to get to the footpaths behind. It is the most boring place imaginable.

we often talk about having a look into the new estate near us then bottle out..not sure i can handle it.. we've seen the folk that come out of it.
some walk past and look slightly baffled at a 10 year driving a tractor or wielding an axe

 

[Bob]

I expect each area in country gets people from mostly the same area we get most incomers from Essex inner M25 which push prices up so local youngsters have to look at beccles or Lowestoft where houses are cheaper.Best smile I had when I lived on an housing estate and one of the new owners said when I first moved here I thought you Suffolk boys were a bit backward, but now I have been here a while I know different,what ever fiddle we are on you lot are doing it only difference is you lot keep your mouth shut about it.

 

[Jimoz]

Legal migration at 250k per year thats got to be 100k houses just to sort them never mind the backlog weve currently got. Isnt it funny all the best looking housing pre dates the increasingly breaucratic planning system. Architect reckons they can refuse based on lack of topo survey on a poxy little infill plot now! Whats wrong with saying top of dpc to be same or so much different to existing house adjacent.

 

[Bob]

Legal migration at 250k per year thats got to be 100k houses just to sort them never mind the backlog weve currently got. Isnt it funny all the best looking housing pre dates the increasingly breaucratic planning system. Architect reckons they can refuse based on lack of topo survey on a poxy little infill plot now! Whats wrong with saying top of dpc to be same or so much different to existing house adjacent.

I have applied for house planning on my own ,helped 1 off owners with planning where I was was doing the work and what ever you want they always want different,on mine which I still live in, it had got to be a bungalow they then put in dpc level and then ridge height to make sure I didn't apply after to convert the roof later(which I probably would) but after I had built mine and a plumber built his a developer bought the 2 remaining plots in road and he was allowed to put on2 3 story houses one worth only million pounds .So money talks or hand shakes do

 

[Maxus]

Planning is a joke, people get away with murder while others have the book thrown at them for the most ridiculous things.... it not what you know

 

[Stebbo]

You’re right there. Our road has a tricky junction to join a main road. Highways presented three pages of objections and said absolutely ‘No more building’. The resident whose application for a single dwelling in his front garden was naturally rejected. His agent/architect happened to be District Councillor who then called in a survey team who disagreed with highways. The councillor then calls in a favour from a couple of councillor ‘mates’ for a bit of support when it went to committee and hey presto. You guessed it - permission granted. Apparently this “back scratching” happens regularly but despite an ‘official investigation’ nothing even changes.

 

[Bob]

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Found this on faceache not too far from you
Digger prices like cars seems high

 

[CPS]

It's an 802 mate. I guess around 1984ish as some fcuking pikey has removed the data plate! Believe it was the first JCB 'mini digger' and had a kubota undercarriage with a JCB upper. Not had to do a lot to do to it, had one bottom roller that had seized and needed new bearings and new seals in the rams, that's about it, although there's not a lot else that moves on it .

Got one the same Charlie, give it a wash yesterday, someday it might even get a coat of paint

 

[JD450A]

Seemingly there not really that rare

 

[CPS]

Seemingly there not really that rare

Yes they are

 

[V8Druid]

Yes they are

can't be that many that've survived from that era -- same to be said for a lot of machines from back then

 

[JD450A]

can't be that many that've survived from that era -- same to be said for a lot of machines from back then

You say that but may count of Very tidy examples is now up to 5....... And as a rule of thumb the ratio of gooduns to wrecks is normally 1:3..... So at least 15 other ruins out there.

The waterways had a s**t ton of them apparently.

 

[CPS]

You say that but may count of Very tidy examples is now up to 5....... And as a rule of thumb the ratio of gooduns to wrecks is normally 1:3..... So at least 15 other ruins out there.

The waterways had a s**t ton of them apparently.

I love that I fall in the top 5