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JCB 1400B Sitemaster Review Problems
You rang ? .
Everything you supposed is true, they are very well thought out and built machines.
I don't know what you are facing in the way of price, but up here that machine you described, including the nifty side-shift hoe, a must have IMHO, would cost you about US$20,000 to buy.
The one in my pic.'s (# 3) is one of several I own. When it came time to up-grade it was in too good a condition to give away, it had been operated by the same person since day one. I retired it to my 'personal' fleet and bought a new one for the company.
I have never had any serious problems with any of them, they work very well and are very easy to operate, very 'user friendly' if you will.
If you are looking at a used one, the things you want to watch for is, a good maintenance record, no welds on the loader or hoe (a sign of overload or abuse), very little sway or slack in the pins (a sign that it lacked regular lubrication), past that just pay attention to the little things, does it look like it's been cared for or thrashed, is the owner conscientious or would they have neglected the machine.
Feel free to drop me a line if you have any more questions.
Best of luck.
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JCB 1400B Sitemaster Review Problems
Sounds fair enough.
The only other item I might mention is with regard to the hours on it. The British are not famous for their 'mobile electronics', just ask anybody who ever drove a British car. Many sports car types firmly believe MGB stands for Might Get Back.
The JCB uses an electronic instrument cluster. On some machines the central cluster justs stops working. This means you have no speedo or tach, no biggie, you will NOT get a speeding ticket or over-rev the engine, , but it does mean that the hours meter stops working as well.
I have seen machines like this for sale, one I saw had so much wear on the bucket itself the lead edge between the teeth had worn back about 1.5", the hours meter said it had 5000 hours on it.
Best of luck.
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