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  • Cat "rubber duck" shoots and scores!

    Check out this amazing video which has been highlighted to me by friend of the Digger blog Guillaume Poitras from Canada. It features some outstanding machine operating skills and co-ordination as the operator of the Caterpillar M315C picks up basketballs in a clamshell grab and shoots to score 5 baskets...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-17-2009

  • 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 to flip over! Bearing in mind that a Cat 785B is...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-15-2009

  • American legend and an Italian classic

    This big dozer video is currently doing the rounds on the machinery forum circuit and features a Caterpillar D11R and an ageing Fiat-Allis FD50 that are working together in a coal mine in America. The Fiat-Allis FD50 is quite a rare beast these days having been introduced in the early 1980's as a...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-29-2009

  • 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 in South Lanarkshire in the UK. The Caterpillar...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-27-2009

  • 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 let these earthmoving monsters rot away like this...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-20-2009

  • 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

  • New Cat 432E Utility Plus Backhoe Loader

    Aimed at filling the gap between Caterpillar's 428E and 432E Premium, the new UK built CAT 432E Utility Plus model is a value based proposition for customers wanting to reduce costs, without compromising on the Cat 432E machine performance. With a 95 horse power engine, replacing the 101 horse power...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-11-2009

  • 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 which have an operating weight of 2,652,000lbs...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-28-2009

  • Classic plant steals the show at Dorset steam fair

    Digger blog reader Tony Wagner sent in some fantastic photos of classic plant which was on display at last week's Great Dorset Steam Fair which is held annually at Blanford in Dorset. The classic plant scene is now a thriving hobby with many people devoting their spare time to restoring old items...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2009

  • First scraper job in Sweden in over 30 years

    Fellow machinery forum member Peter Sjögren has emailed us about a job in Stockholm, Sweden where a scraper is being used for the first time in over 30 years. The tractor and box combination is owned by Peter's friend who is also called Peter and features a Caterpillar D8R pulling a Cat 463 scraper...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-07-2009
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