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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 on a slight camber, you make it up the ramps and then she just starts sliding off...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-03-2009

  • 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 hardly surprising that this happened when you consider that the...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-13-2009

  • 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 drinking. A local company had been contracted to empty...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-12-2009

  • 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 some of the accident shots I have in my collection which feature mini diggers which as...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2009

  • 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 to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-05-2009

  • 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 where I live use this method to move machines around locally but...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-17-2009

  • 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 I am told that the operator got out alive with just a few minor scratches...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-21-2009

  • 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! I suspect a quick change of underwear was required for the operator involved in this accident. Don't...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-08-2009

  • Re: Quick hitches - what solution do you suggest?

    New to these forums. Came across this discussion at the bottom of the Skanska story on cj.com . Judging by what a lot of you have been saying, Skanska's decision to ban semi-automatic and some automatic quick hitches might not be all that welcome. Personally, I support the decision. I realise that...
    Posted to Plant and Machinery (Forum) by Lancs Jeff on 05-11-2009

  • Construction is a safer place to work

    A long-overdue fall in construction fatalities looks on the cards. The HSE will not publish official figures for the year-ending March for several months, although monthly accident figures already indicate fatalities will be below the 72 recorded last year. After several years of bitterly disappointing...
    Posted to CJ Construction Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-08-2009
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