1970's Backhoe - Will it still push dirt? Hymac 370C
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- A little intro to our 1976 Hymac 370C Backhoe. We have plenty of restoration work planned for this old girl but is she still capable of moving dirt in her current state? Join us to find out!
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I’m still to get mine done for Welland. 🙈. Underrated machines with a huge cab. They should have made them 4wd like case and Ford did in the 70’s…. Well so should have jcb but when they got asked by people I know today their argument at the time was you’d never get stuck as you can push yourself out…. More than one person on different occasions was told that at the time. Just wished they had have listened then for their own advantage. Never mind though.
Time is the main factor Ben and not enough of it! You’ll get there and it will be great to see it at Welland👍
I buy in last year Hymac 370c Whitlock 1977 with Perkins 3P. Although it has a rusted floor and cab, scarred hoses plus a few minor things. The hydraulic control for this year is brilliant, leaving other designs behind. Therefore, i wants to do what I can in this condition and then I take it for a decent restoration. It is nearly 50 years old and no overhaul before, I want to keep it because it feels old decent engineering and mechanics. Great machine. I'm just wondering whether to try to improve it by retrofitting, for example, a compressor and an air seat, installing LED lights, or try to stick with the original.
Good luck and great to see another one saved! Interesting idea to install air compressor for an air seat, led lights would be a good upgrade, let us know how you get on👍
Rare old machine I never forget the sound of them old ford engines as when I was 14 I used to help out on my friends dad's farm driveing the old ford tractors thats all he would buy for the farm the first one is a old 4000 ford good to see you got the 370c as can't be many left as people used to have the JCB on the job
Thanks Peter, I learnt to drive on a Whitlock 505 which was based around the Ford 4000 I believe, again good strong machines which were the forerunner of the HYMAC 370c, the Detroit engine is something else mind, no wonder the driver wore ear defenders back in the day driving them🙈
That’s a cracking 370C. These machines were underrated in their day. She sounds sweet enough. Doesn’t look as if she needs to much work to be respectable and visit shows.
I worked for a company that made many parts for that 370 as well as 580s and others. The feet, bucket linkage and rear wheel strengtheners were provided for that machine. Takes me back a few years. Lots of stories how the 370s came into production but it could have been many years earlier. We used to transport the skids- engine, gearbox and drive axle in from Fords at Dagenham. As a teenager I spent many a Saturday morning in HY-MAC and later in life also. It was a great place to learn about diggers. I was very fortunate to know many people who worked there 👍🏴🇺🇸
Thanks once again Paul! I took it to Welland show a couple of years ago and there’s a video of it digging in a classic line up of Ford Autodig, case 580g! Strong machine and I learnt on the forerunner model a Whitlock 505, when Hymac went into receivership I heard that loads of 370c cabs and parts were simply sent to a local scrapyard , thanks for your support and we’ve got loads more content lined up, stay tuned👍
I know that machine …. I was parking mine down the yard beginning of the year near the garden centre
Yes it’s been there a while since we bought it👍 was in the main yard before it got extended
Enjoyed vid 👍 the old hymac sure looks a awkward numb thing definitely better than a hand shovel 😂
My uncle had the 370 and the 270 new in the 70s .from the. steel fab was heaven as a lad . We were scratching our heads how it operated with 2 levers .but soon mastered it .if only it was 4x4
I remember them very well.. a neighbour had two of these, an R reg, and a T reg one both Leyland powered and seen a W reg one with an torque converter, the T reg one had a pin through the middle like yours because the locking whole unit ram that moves it was nackerd and all three had there jibs cracked and welded and plated yours looks very good, fond memories 😊, definitely worth resorting as very few around now. Thank you for sharing.🙂👍
Thanks Callum, yes the swing lock pin as it was called was a great idea for the time and through two rods you could tell if it was locked or unlocked, revolutionary idea for its day but suffered from seals leaking and so very few survive with that system
I learned to drive a Whitlock 505 at the age of 14 and that had 4 big nuts and two pins and was very time consuming to move the arm!
We’ve got another video coming up of removing the ram which is leaking on the main boom and it fights us all the way😫
Thanks for your support hope you like the vids we post and stay tuned👍
Nice... those three cyl engines are good. Only ever worked on one Hymac backhoe loader , you will have to pop down and see my 10 RB dragshovel one day
Nice simple cheap engines to repair Martyn, no lift pump just electric feed pump👍
Same engine as my 1973 Ford 3000 2.9L
Yep! We ended up doing a full inframe rebuild on this one as it was left for 6yrs with an open exhaust port.
Love that old girl
Thanks, must have been quite a revelation in its day and the operator seat and levers are so well designed and positioned operating it is really comfortable compared to other backhoes of that era👍
👍 мне у этих тракторов стрела экскаватора нравится
спасибо, они хорошо сконструированы и крепкие, тяжелые машины, надеюсь, вам понравится наш канал👍
I know that yard 😮
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dam that thing is a beast
Thanks, would have loved to operate one new off the factory production line to see what they were like brand new!
best part of that machine looks like the rear mud guard's 😁😁
And not forgetting the front of the bonnet!👍🙏🙏🤣🤣🤣
Amazing to see it come back to life 😍
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