I've cut up 3 RC 200's here in Pittsburgh, Pa. I learned to operate excavator on them. The last one I really didn't want to get rid of, but had no use of it, no storage for it and no parts. I sent it in whole, it drove on to the lowboy, we put it in the shop, pulled the Deutz v6 and a final drive to save, but ended up scrapping it all. It brought $6,000, they had to cut the boom off it, as it was jammed. I about cried, I didn't want to see that part, at all! I'm trying to find another...
Nice to see the owner got a couple of bucks for it. Too bad it's going off to China and coming back in the form of harbor freight tools and haier refrigerators.
scrap market is very regulated here because of copper wire theft,radiator theft,catalytic converter theft and more.In a response to this the govt. requires all the scrap yard buyers to get a customers name,adress and such,to help stop anonomys metal thieves,most yards pay by check,a few still do cash,but it is still traceable.
The scrap might get a couple hundred more dollars at most if sold whole. The parts that were still working better off keeping, so you don't have to go out and buy parts if it breaks down.
Not the easiest getting dead equipment on lowbeds. They got a good price per ton on that oversize at 190 a ton. After the dust settled I guess the owner ended up with 2500-3000 dollars.
Gawd I love BC, if you were to do what you did down here in the states, the blue lights would be all over you for using equipment like that on pavement.
JCB's are English - the name is the man initials who "invented" them - John Charles Bamford. Poclain are (were rather) French, I don't think they exist anymore, they were regarded as the "Rolls Royce" of excavators in Europe in their day if anyone is interested.
Hi You seem to have the JCB inventors name wrong, it was Joseph Cyril Bamford. I have owned many of his older type backhoe loaders over the years when I lived in the U.K, they are good strong machines for there day and the beating many have had. I just picked up a 3D3 here in Canada a few months ago it's still got it for being a 1979 machine, with experience. The newer ones from about 2000 on like most things seem to have slipped in quality now though from what comments I see around forums .
My apologies, I don't know what made me come up with that name - I lived near the company factory in the UK for 10 yrs. I should have known it off by heart.
Not a problem nobody's gonna loose friends over it :). Poclain excavators ended up becoming part of Case construction equipment in the end, through a buy out. I remember seeing case Poclains when I was a kid in the U.K. I don't know how popular case construction equipment is in the U.k now. There are a fair few case machines in Canada, compared to the number of JCB's .
To be perfectly honest apart from a few small 'dozers and excavators I think there is very little Case construction stuff in the UK. Probably more farm equipment than all the other stuff put together. JCB tend to dominate the lower end of the construction market, with CAT and Volvo as the 'Big 2' in the rest of it with some Japanese and European stuff creeping in. Although JCB are really only big with "back-hoes" in the UK. Nothing Chinese - thank God yet. Believe it or not JCB are a rather devious company with a lot of "family" shares held in these 'off-shore' tax havens, so no one is quite sure who owns what.
Christopher Lovelock it's a pity case bought poclain as I think poclain had lot of potential. I wouldn't look up to case. There not that popular at all. It also annoying that they bought out international, David brown and a few others
Hello Skadill, I'm thinking this is the same machine you did a walk round earlier, during which a couple of ether aerosols were noted around the engine, indicating the deutz engine was rather tired and loath to cold start. Here in the UK I have a case /poclain 588(14 tons) , which retains some of the old poclain bits , but certainly doesn't have those double jointed cylinder connections you pointed out ! Are they of any practical benefit?? French engineers have always been very individual and clever (take the world's first front wheel drive Citroen car for example ( possibly advanced constant velocity yokes on the drive shafts which poclain noted !) and I love them for being both wacky and innovative. Coming back to the poclain, I bought mine secondhand and chose it for looking simple and strong ( my first 360) , tho was told the track motors could let you down. What was the cause of writing off the one in your video? Thanks again for your wondrous minimalist appraisals - I'm hooked !
The Poclains had some of the first 'high pressure hydraulics,and were known for always making new leaks.Not sure if this one is or not.But many ran 5000psi,which was unheard of decades ago.
How interesting , and that explains a lot. These machines are very much appreciated by my local scrapyard in the UK, where they process the loads coming in. I think they are reasonable money to buy, with, tough, simple mechanics, and usually not moving around too much the track motors keep going . Many thanks for your time and insight.
