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Familiar looking dozer hides a secret

12 Dec 12 Former Wimpey employee and regular blog reader Micky Denne, has sent in some photos of a dozer he came across that has a very familiar look.

A new pride of Cats join the Champion Groundwork’s fleet

11 Dec 12 Leading South West civil engineering company, Champion Groundwork’s, has just taken delivery of eight brand new Caterpillar 8 ton hydraulic excavators, from W H Bond, the new Cat compact dealership for Devon and Cornwall.

Hitachi's largest and most advanced rigid dumptruck

10 Dec 12 Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV (HCME) has launched its largest ever rigid dumptruck, the EH5000AC-3.

Hard Rock digging was core to Montuoro Contracting Corporation

9 Dec 12 Our good friend Michael Palma from New York, sent me these classic archive shots earlier in the year. He was hoping to find out some background information on them, sadly this has not been forthcoming, and I simply cannot resist sharing these great old photos with you all.

007’s Cat excavator spotted on a mission in China

6 Dec 12 It looks like one of the biggest highlights at the recent Bauma China exhibition was the Caterpillar 320DL excavator ,that made such a spectacular appearance in the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall, which was yesterday revealed as the UK's biggest ever box office success.

Cat D6N’s ready for the Coldest Journey (Part Two)

5 Dec 12 Continuing our look at the 2 Caterpillar D6N’s that have been re-engineered by Finning in the UK and Caterpillar in Grenoble, before they and two Finning engineers join Sir Ranulph Fiennes and his team on his Coldest Journey Expedition.

Digger is on the Case with the new CX210C

4 Dec 12 Last week I took up my new operating job on Liskeard based Champion Groundwork’s, brand new Case CX210C, which is the first C series model to be delivered into the West Country. In this post I will offer my personal thoughts on the new machine.

A new kid on the blocks at Marshalls

3 Dec 12 Marshalls, the producers of premium natural stone has taken delivery of a new Volvo L150G for handling stone blocks at its Cromwell Works in Halifax.

It’s a Bond double act in 2012 as W H Bond join the Cat Compact dealership network

2 Dec 12 The name’s Bond, W H Bond. As 50 years of the James Bond franchise was celebrated this year featuring a cameo from a Cat excavator, a business with over 50 years of trading experience, W H Bond, has been appointed as the latest addition to the Finning network of Caterpillar compact dealerships.

Terex CC 2500-1 crawler crane lifts steel bridge over the A6 freeway near Kaiserslautern

28 Nov 12 Mainz-based crane service provider Riga lifted a 265-tonne, 70 meter-long steel footbridge over the A6 freeway near Kaiserslautern on the night of Saturday, September 29th, 2012. The constrained space conditions at the freeway made the Terex CC 2500-1 crawler crane the ideal choice for the lift.

Cat D6Ns ready for the Coldest Journey (Part One)

27 Nov 12 The Digger blog travelled to Finning’s UK headquarters in Cannock to witness the stunning modifications that have been made to two Caterpillar D6N track type tractors that will be joining Sir Ranulph Fiennes on his Coldest Journey Antarctic Expedition.

Volvo EC300Ds scoop Black Gold for Banks Mining

26 Nov 12 Banks Mining, a division of the Banks Group Ltd, Meadowfield, County Durham has continued an association with Volvo Construction Equipment with the delivery of five A40F articulated and haulers, two EC220Ds on backacter and two EC300D excavators rigged with bespoke front shovel coaling equipment.

New Holland’s E140C SR is a smooth operator

25 Nov 12 Before my recent visit to New Holland in Turin, one of our readers Stuart Jamieson, advised me to have some stick time in the new E140C SR if I got the chance, commenting that it is the smoothest machine I would ever operate. So I was keen to see just what the machine was like for myself.

Digger joins the Champions league

23 Nov 12 This coming week your blogger will be starting a new “day job” with one of the leading civil engineering and groundwork’s companies in the South West, Champion Groundworks.

You were only supposed to load the truck not squash it!

22 Nov 12 I came across this grainy mobile phone photo on Facebook and just had to share it here on the Digger blog.

Compact telehandler chosen by Milton Keynes construction company

20 Nov 12 A Milton Keynes based construction company specialising in barn conversions and individual house building has recently added a Weidemann T4512 compact telehandler to its plant fleet.

Old Akerman gets back to working ways

19 Nov 12 Keen readers may recall the post in May this year in which we reported about a rather sorry looking Akerman H25C, which was lying and occasionally being put to work in the North of Scotland, well thanks to Volvo service engineer Neil Bruce we have an update on the old girl.

German team victorious again in the New Holland Grand Prix 2012

18 Nov 12 During the Digger Blog’s visit to New Holland in Turin last weekend, we and the assembled press, witnessed the presentation of the brand new Series B PRO wheeled excavators. The following day we were present for the final of the New Holland European Operators Championships, which is now in its 6thyear.

Long boom JCB JS360 reaches into the past to find WWII bomber

16 Nov 12 The first Stage IIIB/Tier 4 Interim JS360LR (long reach) crawler excavator produced by JCB has played a key role in the excavation of remains of a WWII Lancaster Bomber, which was shot down in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Anglian Plant expands rapidly to meet customer demands

15 Nov 12 Like many successful businesses, Anglian Plant Hire was formed from humble beginnings. Managing director Joe Paterson talked to the Digger Blog about how the Norfolk Broads based company was started.

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