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Liebherr Wheeled Loader Handles Rock Salt

Cobra Middlesbrough Limited has been operating Liebherr wheeled loaders at their rock salt processing facilities in North Road for a number of years and these highly specialised materials handlers are fully equipped and protected for what is an extremely corrosive...

Posted by Nick Drew on November 18, 2009 11:32 AM

New Liebherr Waste Handler for Alex Smiles

Alex Smiles Limited has been a Liebherr customer for over 25 years and, in a recent investment, continues the company's long allegiance to Liebherr-Great Britain Limited with the purchase of a specialist L 5382plus1 PK-HL high-lift wheeled loading shovel waste...

Posted by Nick Drew on September 30, 2009 11:00 AM

Liebherr find a glitch with their new car wash!

This video was sent to me by Rob Sinclair a regular reader of the Digger blog who works for Volvo in Germany. It shows the results caused by dropping 10,000 litres of water onto a car from the bucket of...

Posted by Nick Drew on August 23, 2009 9:11 AM

Augean PLC Takes Four Liebherr Landfill Crawler Loaders

Augean PLC is one of the UK's leading waste management groups, specialising in providing a wide range of services in the hazardous waste sector. The company has recently taken delivery of the first Liebherr machines to join their large materials...

Posted by Nick Drew on August 20, 2009 4:59 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

Liebherr monster trucks in Canada

Patrick Snider a regular reader of the digger blog has sent in some fantastic photos of the Liebherr T282B dumptrucks that he works with in Alberta Canada. Patrick was working as a mechanic with these trucks for over a year...

Posted by Nick Drew on June 28, 2009 8:49 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

John Deere in a hotspot

Hot on the tracks (forgive the pun) of the recent post about the specially adapted Liebherr tracked loading shovel at work in a steel mill comes this interesting set of photos sent into us at Digger by regular reader Tom...

Posted by Nick Drew on March 17, 2009 7:39 PM

New Liebherr long reach excavator

Liebherr-Great Britain has recently supplied another specialist hydraulic excavator to The Welland and Deepings Internal Drainage Board in Lincolnshire. A new generation R 317 LC Litronic is being used for general dredging duties, as well as drain clearance and...

Posted by Nick Drew on March 16, 2009 7:27 PM

Hot work For Liebherr track shovel

Liebherr has developed a specialist crawler loader in its fully hydrostatic range, specifically designed and built for slag handling in steel mill applications. The LR 634 STM Litronic incorporates numerous safety and operating features for the efficient handling and loading...

Posted by Nick Drew on March 1, 2009 9:47 AM

Liebherr R312 climbing stunt part 2

Well I make no apologies for returning to this topic which I covered in an earlier posting on Digger. As an amazing video has now come to light of this incredible stunt being performed live for a German TV game...

Posted by Nick Drew on February 7, 2009 2:31 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

Four Liebherr mining machines head for Scotland

As reported in last weeks Contract Journal the first two of four Liebherr R 9350 Litronic mining machines have been delivered to The Scottish Coal Company Limited. It is one of the largest single orders for hydraulic excavators ever received...

Posted by Nick Drew on January 31, 2009 10:06 AM

Liebherr-rental equips dozers with Topcon laser systems

Liebherr-Rental is increasing its hydrostatic bulldozer holding, following an early demand on their arrival in this growing company's expanding hire fleet. Varied applications, from earthmoving and grading to coal and aggregate materials handling and stockpiling, have resulted in a...

Posted by Nick Drew on December 19, 2008 6:03 PM

The new Liebherr Generation 6 crawler excavators

A world premiere. With its Generation 6 crawler excavators Liebherr achieves new levels of performance, economy, operating convenience and reliability. The new series of machines, to be shown to the public for the first time at the 2009 'Intermat' trade...

Posted by Nick Drew on November 15, 2008 9:23 AM

Coleman's massive Liebherr R984

News reaches us here at Digger that Coleman demolition's new Liebherr R984 has moved onto site at the Matthew Boulton College in Birmingham. The Liebherr R984 is the third tallest high reach demolition machine in the world and the highest...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 12, 2008 3:42 PM