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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

Oops those counterweights are heavy

Here is another mishap this time from our good friend down under Gary Steen. Someone didn't really think of the consequences of slewing a Caterpillar 345D LME excavator over the side when it's not got it's boom fitted! It is...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 13, 2009 11:28 AM

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

Mini excavator mishaps top five

Whilst watching Britain does the funniest things on Saturday night tv, I saw the video that I featured here on the Digger blog where the guy falls off the Takeuchi TB008 into the trench and It got me thinking about...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 8, 2009 3:50 PM

How not to unload your excavator and trench box!

I came across this series of photos from Joshua Gavin on the heavy equipment group on Facebook. They Show a Volvo EC160B excavator which has just slipped off a lowloader (Lowboy) somewhere in America or Canada....

Posted by Nick Drew on October 5, 2009 3:22 PM

Trailer takes excavator over the top!

This tractor and trailer which was carrying a 12 ton Caterpillar excavator took a tumble whilst swerving to avoid a learner driver last week according to regular Digger blog reader Justin Worswick. A lot of contractors in the West Country...

Posted by Nick Drew on September 17, 2009 7:25 PM

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

It's a rollover! Cat grader takes a tumble

This shot of a Caterpillar 140H motor grader was sent in by Gary Steen from Australia. The hired in unit was working on a site for the Abigroup when it slid down the bank and ended up on its side!...

Posted by Nick Drew on June 8, 2009 6:10 PM

Bogged machines top ten photos

Here are my favourite top ten bogged in shots from my extensive collection of machine accidents & mishaps. At number 10. This Volvo 360 got into a spot of bother down at the beach. At number 9. This Caterpillar motor...

Posted by Nick Drew on January 18, 2009 11:00 AM