Digger

It just slipped off boss!

How many of us operators have had that sliding feeling when you are loading a tracked excavator onto a low loader/lowboy trailer. Picture the scene, its cold, muddy and wet the trailer bed is all metal and it is parked...

Posted by Nick Drew on November 3, 2009 1:36 PM

New Komatsu 830E's down under

A fleet of these big trucks are in the process of being assembled & delivered to a new mine near Ulan in NSW. These large trucks from Komatsu are powered by komatsu's own SDA16V160 engine which develops 1865kw @1900rpm. The...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 26, 2009 11:13 AM

Cat and Komatsu dumptruck graveyard

Mike Bullock sent in this amazing series of photos from Russia where hundreds of heavy dumptrucks from top manufacturers Caterpillar and Komatsu just seem to have been abandoned and left to the ravages of the wind,rain and snow. So who...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 20, 2009 10:12 AM

Komatsu rips it up!

Following a request from Digger blog reader Bob Rocker for more big dozer shots our good friend Gary Steen from Australia has stepped in to help with these shots of a Komatsu D475A-5 in action during very hard ripping duties....

Posted by Nick Drew on October 11, 2009 9:17 AM

Downwell Demolition Brings Flyover Down to Earth

Demolition contractor Downwell Demolition has recently completed a 6 week project demolishing the Sir John Hawkins flyover in Chatham with help from excavators by Hitachi and Komatsu. The flyover's demolition is part of a multimillion pound redevelopment of Chatham city...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 7, 2009 2:07 PM

Auf Wiedersehen Pet (Plant at work in Germany)

In response to last months request for your holiday snaps with a plant flavour reader David Wylie from Scotland has sent in some great shots from his recent trip to Germany. These shots were taken just outside the French town...

Posted by Nick Drew on August 11, 2009 3:57 PM

Digger goes to Cyprus part two

With the much hyped British "barbeque" summer in full swing...rain, rain, and more rain It seems like a good idea to bring a bit of sunshine into our lives and look back again to some of my plant shots taken...

Posted by Nick Drew on August 1, 2009 9:49 AM

Oops down under!

Shaun Hall from Australia recently joined the friends of the digger blog group that is currently running on Facebook and added some fantastic photos of accidents from sites down under. This first series of shots shows a giant Hitachi mining...

Posted by Nick Drew on July 29, 2009 3:26 PM

New Komatsu PC2000 delivered to Abi group

Gary Steen our resident man down under has sent in these shots of the Abi groups latest acquisition a Komatsu PC2000-8 excavator. This first set of photos show the machine being delivered to site without it's boom, dipper and bucket....

Posted by Nick Drew on July 20, 2009 8:53 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

Another flipper from down under!

Diggers resident man down under Gary Steen sent in these top photos of a Komatsu WA500 wheel loader that had taken a tumble and the subsequent recovery of the machine. WA500-6R is a 263kw - 353hp shovel and weighs in...

Posted by Nick Drew on May 24, 2009 12:26 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

New Cat & Komatsu kit delivered down under

Australian Digger blog reader Gary Steen has sent in yet another fantastic batch of photos showing some of the latest arrivals down under. First machine is a Caterpillar 16M motor grader which has been delivered to a new site in...

Posted by Nick Drew on May 9, 2009 8:27 AM

Digger down under

I was recently contacted by Gary Steen from Australia who is a regular reader of the Digger blog. Gary has sent me some fantastic material that I hope to be sharing with you all here soon. In this first spectacular...

Posted by Nick Drew on May 3, 2009 9:38 AM

Komatsu D575A dozer vs. pickup truck

This cracking little video has some very interesting facts and figures in it and the fun element of the destruction of the pick up truck towards the end. Eagle eyed machine men will note that the dozer in the truck...

Posted by Nick Drew on April 26, 2009 11:21 AM

Top 5 machines on fire - PHOTOS

Anyone who has witnessed a machine catching fire would tell you that it can be a frightening experience, the sheer speed and ferocity of the ensuing fire really takes some believing. I have only experienced this once in my operating...

Posted by Nick Drew on April 26, 2009 9:17 AM

Komatsu PC5500 loading 300 ton trucks - VIDEO

Have you ever wondered what it must be like to operate one of these giant mining excavators? Well in this excellent video you can get a feel of what it must be like as you scoop up 29 cubic metres...

Posted by Nick Drew on April 13, 2009 1:43 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

LGP Komatsu PC160 for HQC (Scotland)

Despite the economic downturn, Highland Quality Construction Ltd, better known in Scotland as HQC, is busy working on a number of civil engineering, quarrying and construction projects, one of which is the Glendoe Hydro Project at Fort Augustus, overlooking...

Posted by Nick Drew on March 29, 2009 11:43 AM

Side Loading machinery is it a lost art?

When I first started out in our industry as a young machine operator in the late 70's it was always common practice to load any kind of machinery on to a low loader "over the side". And indeed with one...

Posted by Nick Drew on February 15, 2009 3:14 PM