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• Dumptrucks upside down - down under!

  Here we go with some more fantastic photos from our resident man down under Gary Steen. Details about how this incident happned are sketchy but it looks like the Caterpillar 785B dumptruck has mounted the bank with a full load on and that has caused it... Posted Nov 15 2009, 10:17 AM by Digger Filed under: excavators, caterpillar, Dumptrucks, O&K

• More big dozer action shots

  In further response to Bob Rockers request for more big dozer shots here at Digger regular Construction Space forum contributor David Wylie has sent in some impressive shots he took during a recent visit to the Scottish coal mine operation at Broken Cross... Posted Oct 27 2009, 06:50 PM by Digger Filed under: caterpillar, Dumptrucks, dozers, Opencast

• 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 830E's unladen... Posted Oct 26 2009, 11:13 AM by Digger Filed under: Dumptrucks, Komatsu, Australia

• 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 can afford to just... Posted Oct 20 2009, 11:12 AM by Digger Filed under: caterpillar, Dumptrucks, Komatsu, Russia

• Bucyrus and Cats dig for gold

  The Boddington gold mine is a large open cut mining operation that produces more than 230,000 ounces of gold per year. The mine is located about 150klm south east of Perth Western Australia. The primary excavators at the gold mine are Bucyrus 495HD's... Posted Sep 28 2009, 10:30 PM by Digger Filed under: excavators, caterpillar, Dumptrucks, mining, Australia, Bucyrus

• Heavy equipment goes to sea!

  This incredible series of pictures were recently posted on our Facebook Friends of the Digger blog wall by Shaun Hall. They show a 395 ton O&K/Terex RH170 excavator making its way onto a barge somewhere in Western Australia. Read More... Posted Sep 23 2009, 12:39 PM by Digger Filed under: excavators, Dumptrucks, O&K, Australia, Terex

• Volvo EC210C has a heritage to look up to

  Isle of Skye contractor Ewan (Yogi) Grant has high expectations for his new Volvo EC210C excavator - and rightly so! It joins a vintage Volvo BM 860TL dumptruck circa 1968! A new Volvo EC210C has been delivered to local contractor Ewan (Yogi) Grant based... Posted Sep 07 2009, 05:51 PM by Digger Filed under: Volvo, excavators, Dumptrucks, Scotland

• Haulmax trucks in action

  Something a bit different from our resident man down under Gary Steen in the shape of these Haulmax trucks. Australian company Haulmax provides a purpose built product with inherent mining application design which offers cost effective haulage solutions... Posted Aug 19 2009, 04:56 PM by Digger Filed under: Dumptrucks, Australia, Haulmax

• 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 on our recent holiday to Cyprus.... Posted Aug 01 2009, 10:49 AM by Digger Filed under: Hyundai, excavators, caterpillar, Wheeled loaders, Dumptrucks, dozers, Komatsu, Hymac, Cyprus, Moxy, Samsung

• 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 backhoe that... Posted Jul 29 2009, 04:26 PM by Digger Filed under: excavators, Dumptrucks, Komatsu, Australia, Hitachi, Bell

• Top five ADT disasters

  Well we have all seen at least one of these incidents on site I should think, and they certainly make a good advert for the modern ejector systems that are gaining popularity. Here at no 5, This Volvo A35C is looking in a very bad way after attempting... Posted Jul 15 2009, 01:50 AM by Digger Filed under: Volvo, caterpillar, Dumptrucks, Terex

• 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 and has now moved on to become... Posted Jun 28 2009, 09:49 AM by Digger Filed under: Dumptrucks, Liebherr, Canada

• Komatsu PC5500 Loading 300ton trucks!

  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 of material and deposit the 50 tons of spoil into a massive... Posted Apr 13 2009, 02:43 PM by Digger Filed under: excavators, Dumptrucks, Komatsu, excavator video, mining

• SED Revisited part two (Whipsnade)

  With SED 2009 just around the corner we continue our revisited series with a look at the Whipsnade years. SED ran at Whipsnade from 1985-1990 and its chalky ground was to prove challenging for the demonstrators and their machines, rock hard when dry and... Posted Apr 04 2009, 07:44 PM by Digger Filed under: SED, Volvo, excavators, caterpillar, Dumptrucks, loading shovels, Poclain, Hymac, Ford

• SED Revisited part one (Hatfield)

  Site Equipment Demonstration (SED) ran at the Hatfield site from 1966-1984. I have been trawling through the archives and come across some very interesting old photos from these old days when many new innovations were coming out. Machines spotted in this... Posted Mar 22 2009, 12:11 PM by Digger Filed under: SED, Volvo, excavators, caterpillar, Dumptrucks, Poclain, Long Reach, Priestman, MF