Ransomes MG6 Digger Dozer

[expeatfarmer]

Having found that our main house drain was blocked , today I took out the MG6 digger with a vengeance. I dug a trench 4ft deep through heavy clay for a distance of 14m in less than an hour, that works for me.

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[Anonymous]

Have you got any period pics of the backhoe attached to a Ransomes machine?

[expeatfarmer]

No I have not I am afraid, I have never seen a picture before. I have known for many years that a bachoe was available but never seen one.

[ransomes256]

Personally I am very doubtful that a backhoe was ever originally available, I heard many rumours of the existence of a version but have never seen any documented proof.
The only version I ever located prior to Jonathan’s build was a poor fitting of a mini digger arm grafted onto an MG6 and trying to be passed off as original. The Japanese id marks gave it away.
Neil

[Anonymous]

Seeing as this backhoe was made to original drawings, surely there must have been a date on the drawings?? and if it was a commercially built item then a leaflet of some sort would have been produced??

[Anonymous]

Sorry my misunderstanding, I thought the backhoe here was originally made to fit on Ransomes crawlers when they were new

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