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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 before being cleaned for... Posted Oct 12 2009, 11:27 AM by Digger Filed under: excavators, Case, accidents

• 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 decided to try one out... Posted Sep 20 2009, 04:24 PM by Digger Filed under: excavators, Case, Canada

• 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, it left... Posted Jun 10 2009, 02:48 PM by Digger Filed under: excavators, Case, Plant Hire

• 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 it one... Posted Jun 07 2009, 10:05 AM by Digger Filed under: Takeuchi, Volvo, excavators, caterpillar, Mini-excavators, Case, wheeled loader, Duchy College, dumpers

• 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 the past year and indeed before the 130 was delivered I spent... Posted May 18 2009, 08:20 PM by Digger Filed under: SED, excavators, Video, Case

• 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 system... Posted May 17 2009, 10:39 AM by Digger Filed under: Volvo, tiltrotator, Komatsu, Sweden, Case, Engcon, Hanix

• 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 exhibitors and visitors... Posted May 16 2009, 02:59 PM by Digger Filed under: SED, Hyundai, excavators, JCB, Mini-excavators, Case, wheeled loader, New Holland, Doosan, Ammann Yanmar, Engcon

• 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 led... Posted Apr 05 2009, 01:13 PM by Digger Filed under: excavators, Komatsu, Case, PJ Kingwell, Safety, Quick-hitch