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Case CX130 gets that sinking feeling

These photos were recently posted on to our Friends of the Digger blog page on Facebook by Bugsy Cwalinski. They were taken near Chester at a settlement lagoon where silt is allowed to settle and seperate from the river water...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 12, 2009 10:27 AM

Case CX130B chosen thanks to Digger blog

After reading Diggers post SED review of the Case CX range of excavators earlier in the year 15 year old Canadian plant enthusiast and trainee operator Guillaume Poitras was so impressed with what he had read about them that he...

Posted by Nick Drew on September 20, 2009 3:24 PM

Opportunity Knocks for plant hirer in Barrow

For many, the recession is simply bad news: businesses closing, jobs being lost. For a few brave souls, however, the recession is also an opportunity. When a major national hire company pulled the plug on its Barrow-in-Furness depot in February,...

Posted by Nick Drew on June 10, 2009 1:48 PM

Digger visits the Royal Cornwall Show

This weekend I took the oportunity to visit the Royal Cornwall show which takes place at the beginning of June each year, at Wadebridge in North Cornwall. The show lasts for three days and attracts approximately 120,000 visitors annually, making...

Posted by Nick Drew on June 7, 2009 9:05 AM

Case CX210B SED test drive

Whilst at the recent SED 2009 show I was given the chance to take a test drive in one of my favourite machines. I am no stranger to the B series models as I have been operating a CX130B for...

Posted by Nick Drew on May 18, 2009 7:20 PM

Engcon puts on skills super show at SED 2009

As ever Engcon put on a fantastic display at this year's event with their stand featuring no less than three machines all equipped with tiltrotators. Fronting the demo area was a 14ton Volvo EC140B equipped with the Engcon EC15 tiltrotator...

Posted by Nick Drew on May 17, 2009 9:39 AM

Digger's SED round up

As Freddie Mercury and Queen once sang "the show must go on" and go on it did at SED 2009 last week at Rockingham! Understandably in the current climate the show was considerably smaller than in previous years but most...

Posted by Nick Drew on May 16, 2009 1:59 PM

Quick-Hitch training

Over the past few years the safe use of Quick-hitches has become something of a health & safety "hot potato" subject. There have now been several workplace accidents and sadly some deaths relating to the use of quick-hitches. This has...

Posted by Nick Drew on April 5, 2009 12:13 PM

"Sorry boss, I broke it" - Top ten broken machinery - PHOTOS

Here is a compilation of my favourite busted, snapped & bent machinery photos. Machinery owners please don't have nightmares! These kind of incidents are extremely rare. 10) This Cat D8 couldn't wait to get off the low loader and decided...

Posted by Nick Drew on January 31, 2009 7:35 PM

Case excavator takes a tumble

I recently received this amazing series of photos showing a Case 21 ton that had tipped over on a grassy slope in Cornwall. Details of what happened are not entirely clear but it is obvious that the driver had a...

Posted by Nick Drew on December 14, 2008 10:10 AM

Britain's motorways reach 50

This week Britain's motorway network reached a milestone 50 year birthday. The first official opening was the Preston bypass in 1958 which is now part of the M6 and on Friday 5th December 2008 the latest six mile stretch of...

Posted by Nick Drew on December 6, 2008 8:12 AM

I'm a stubborn tree stump... get me out of here!

I took this series of photos on the site I am currently working on back in the summer. I was assinged the task of extracting this tree stump with my current mount a Case CX130B but quickly discovered that the...

Posted by Nick Drew on November 25, 2008 8:27 PM

Case backhoe loader takes a mudbath - VIDEO

I think we can safely say that this guy is in a spot of bother! Not much hope of getting out with the front bucket firmly rooted in the mud! This footage was probably taken somewhere in South America, note...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 29, 2008 9:18 PM

Case CX130B for P.J. Kingwell (Plymouth)

Plymouth based P.J. Kingwell & Sons Ltd have recently taken delivery of a brand new Case CX130B hydraulic excavator as part of a three machine deal with south west Case dealership M&M plant sales. The 130B was on display...

Posted by Nick Drew on September 12, 2008 5:09 PM