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Posted: **Tue May 01, 2012 8:29 pm**

that loading shovel must of been an absolute heap for 250 notes! Any pics Tony?

Posted: **Tue May 01, 2012 10:47 pm**

30 years ago the average salary was what Â£6000 so wasnt like 250 nowadays, although i loaded 20 of mot into tractor the other day in an old ford 656(3cx copy) that was given my mate for free haha thing was a dog but it beat shoveling it

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2012 6:01 am**

yeah my old fella used to clear about Â£130 back in 82 45 hour week for sid farrow.when he started on his own in 84 and they paid themselves Â£200 a week they were like rockafellas
LLL

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2012 7:15 am**

Hi Sussex, we did a job about a year ago, lifted and re-laid 60m2 of them for a client. We manhandled them, onto a sand/cement prepared bed, a man to each corner and hinged them down from the edge of the adjacent slab, the really heavy ones we rollered across on scaff poles and used ropes to lever into position, slid them out after wards. Heavy going but a good crack as well.

Posted: **Wed May 09, 2012 9:48 pm**

started laying the flags today ! using 3 1/2 ton digger with slings on sand/cement ok for the moment but need sucker for the big boys, struggling to hire one down here anyone know where i could lay my hands on one,cheers

Posted: **Wed May 09, 2012 10:09 pm**

hss have them .

Posted: **Wed May 09, 2012 10:45 pm**

GAP do them too, they have a lifting division from memory, they were pretty helpful when we needed one.
possibly need to fill account forms in though.

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2012 11:44 am**

I wish I did have photies of all the plant my owld fellah used to have, but back then, in the pre-digital days, developing photies was an expensive hobby so I tended to restrict it to important jobs, new babies, and the like.

The Chaseside was bought from a factory on Trafford Park. It had been used for years as a general loading shovel in a textiles yard and they'd replaced it with a new shiny JCB 3CII, which was probably the most unwieldy, cumbersome, impossible-to-handle machine JCB ever produced.

I found this photie of the same model Chaseside on the web...

...which belongs to This Guy, so all credit to him.

About the same time (1974-76) we also had a Wetherill shovel onto which we mounted a JCB back-acter for a real hybrid monstrosity. That was a real feat of engineering as we had to install a donkey-engined hydraulic pump to power the back-acter, so there was all sorts of messing about to be done if you wanted to do any rear-end action!

Posted: **Sat May 12, 2012 10:43 pm**

did try hss but the guy on the other end of the did'nt have a clue what i was talking about;was going to ring me back but that never happened.i'l give them another go & try gap as well;if all else fails i could do with tony Mc C ;i've got a few bits of plant he could make me one!that shovel must have been a proper big boy toy;thanks for info

Posted: **Sun May 13, 2012 8:08 am**

think that GAP i spoke to were Northampton, but will have other depots too i am sure

Posted: **Sun May 13, 2012 9:17 pm**

brandon hire do them I have always found their customer service better than hss, hence my account with hss got binned

Posted: **Mon May 14, 2012 6:22 pm**

how heavy are they? do they weigh more than 400kgs?
hss do a stone "magnet", that would do the job. its just a giant vacuum slab lifter

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