Digger

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

Takeuchi's & cowboys don't mix

This incredible video depicts a whole catalogue of health and safety wrong doings and bad working procedures. In the first instance the "driver" tracks an 835kg Takeuchi TB108 on to a piece of plywood that is spanning a wide trench,...

Posted by Nick Drew on March 31, 2009 7:14 PM

JCB micro with added counterweight

I took this couple of photos on a site I was on a few years ago on Plymouth Hoe. The little JCB micro excavator was struggling to pick up some steel road plates which were too heavy for it, so...

Posted by Nick Drew on March 24, 2009 1:52 PM

JCB takes a tumble - VIDEO

This cracking video shows an unusually coloured JCB JS range excavator from a Dutch company taking a tumble. Just brings it home how easy it can be to find yourself in a spot of bother! There are more photos of...

Posted by Nick Drew on January 31, 2009 9:55 PM

Manitou goes off road

Following last weeks top ten bogged photos I was very pleased to be inundated with photos from readers of Digger. One of particular interest was this photo sent in by Simon Taylor of GenCat Ltd which was taken back in...

Posted by Nick Drew on January 24, 2009 6:08 PM

Massive Cat dumptruck skip slips off

These amazing photos were recently posted on the CMN forum. They show what I suspect to be the dump body from a Caterpillar 789C which has slipped off the low loader during transportation. The 789C itself when fully assembled is...

Posted by Nick Drew on January 11, 2009 10:06 AM

"Is that the demolition man?"

Well I think we all need a laugh at the moment to help us through the current economic gloom & doom. So here is a sound clip with pictures that I came across some time ago but it always makes...

Posted by Nick Drew on January 11, 2009 9:30 AM

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

Runaway pipelayer - VIDEO

The poor chap in this video has flipped his Caterpillar sideboom and is trying to upright it quickly on his own. When the machines comes down the strop he is using comes off and... well just watch the clip! How...

Posted by Nick Drew on December 6, 2008 11:16 AM

Wheeled loader wheelie - VIDEO

Here is a very clever stunt being performed with a Caterpillar wheeled loader which they very strangely describe as a "bulldozer"? All good fun I guess but not really very good practice for the machine involved? Please don't try this...

Posted by Nick Drew on November 29, 2008 5:52 PM

Little & large machines - VIDEO

This video caught my eye recently, two great machines from different ends of the machine selling market. Looks a bit hairy coming out of that bucket with the mini digger....

Posted by Nick Drew on September 20, 2008 8:50 AM

Huddig 1260 opens bottle - VIDEO

Check out this video of a Swedish manufactured Huddig 1260 backhoe loader opening a bottle, the machine is being operated remotely by Huddigs highly skilled demonstration operator. The Huddig range of machines are very high spec and extremely well built,...

Posted by Nick Drew on September 14, 2008 10:59 AM

Machines in trouble - VIDEO

I think we all like to laugh at other peoples misfortunes, check out this compilation of disasters for starters. Many of the photos in this clip are in my own private collection, if you enjoy these types of photos why...

Posted by Nick Drew on September 13, 2008 7:48 PM

How to strip a girl with an excavator - VIDEO

This particular video has been doing the rounds for a while now but I still think it is worth another look so we can fully appreciate the fantastic skill of the operator at the controls of the Case 210B excavator,...

Posted by Nick Drew on September 6, 2008 11:57 AM