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American legend and an Italian classic

This big dozer video is currently doing the rounds on the machinery forum circuit and features a Caterpillar D11R and an ageing Fiat-Allis FD50 that are working together in a coal mine in America. The Fiat-Allis FD50 is quite a...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 29, 2009 6:38 PM

Classic wheeled loader safety video

I found this classic video on front end loader safety on the American heavy equipment forum.There are some real vintage machines on show in this film which was produced in the States by the Mine Safety and Health Administration Behind...

Posted by Nick Drew on September 29, 2009 8:59 AM

Would you be happy down this trench?

I came across this old photo on the American heavy equipment forum and It just made me think that todays health and safety officials would be having nightmares if they saw this kind of practice going on. Not a trench...

Posted by Nick Drew on September 27, 2009 11:16 AM

Some all American classics

I was recently contacted by a great supporter of the Digger blog Bob Rocker who hails from Pompano beach Florida. Bob used to operate Cat dozers for many years but now aged 67 has retired from the seat. Like so...

Posted by Nick Drew on July 27, 2009 11:04 AM

Cat D10R dozer gets crushed by rock fall

This series of photos is currently doing the rounds on the internet plant forum circuit. They show the results of a Caterpillar D10R dozer that has got caught under a massive rock fall in a quarry somewhere in America. Amazingly...

Posted by Nick Drew on July 21, 2009 1:42 PM

Sideboom work Italian style!

One of our Italian readers Franco Daccapo has sent in some shots of this unusual sideboom at work in Calabria in Southern Italy. This machine is an American built Superior SPX-960 Pipelayer which is a 100 ton hydraulically controlled unit....

Posted by Nick Drew on June 15, 2009 10:01 AM

Miniature bulldozer from USA

Over the past few months on the Digger blog we have seen massive dozers like the Caterpillar D11T and Komatsu D575A but today I have found something at the other end of the scale. The Magnatrac RS1000 is a tiny...

Posted by Nick Drew on June 13, 2009 5:19 PM

Cat 16M Grader wrecked

I found this series of photos on the American Heavy equipment forum website. The photos were posted by Bryan Abernathy who is executive vice president of Champion motor graders in the US. They show the unfortunate results of what appears...

Posted by Nick Drew on March 8, 2009 9:45 AM

Electric mini excavators - shape of things to come maybe?

Here is an interesting video of a JCB micro excavator that has been converted to run on electricity by a company in America. With the ever decreasing supply of oil could this be the shape of excavation in the future?...

Posted by Nick Drew on December 22, 2008 6:59 PM

Flying Caterpillar 315CL

I was sent this series of photos of Caterpillar 315CL hydraulic excavator being lifted by crane onto the top of a building somewhere in America. I have no details of where, or what the machine was going to be doing...

Posted by Nick Drew on December 21, 2008 11:24 AM

Gradall unusual American excavator

This video clip shows a machine that is rarely seen here in the UK but is very popular in America. The legendary Gradall excavator traces its roots back to the early 1940s -- a time when World War II created...

Posted by Nick Drew on November 22, 2008 8:18 AM

Excavator challenge - VIDEO

Check out the skill involved in this clip! This is quite obviously filmed in America as the machine in question has a "Thumb" attachment that we don't see very often here in the UK...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 20, 2008 7:57 PM