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  • Nick Drew gets the tiltrotator factor with Steelwrist

    Nick Drew Operator Services has recently purchased a Steelwrist X04 tiltrotator system for use on their Hitachi Zaxis ZX30 mini excavator. Having been a big supporter of the concept for many years and doing a lot of research on the major players in the tiltrotator industry I finally decided to take the...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-14-2010

  • Nick Drew my life in plant part three

    After being made redundant from Wimpeys around 1982-83 I became a bit like a fish out of water for a while as I had like so many people become stuck in a rut with what I thought was the security of a big company. But I set off in earnest to find a new job which I found the very next day for a company...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-11-2010

  • Hitachi excavators tackle underground job

    We have seen a massive rise in readers from Finland following the publication of Olli Paivio's excellent article on the Digger blog in the latest edition of Finnish magazine Koneporssi. One such reader is Hannu Rinne-Laturi who works for the family business Rinne-Laturi , a company which was established...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-31-2010

  • Young Swede looks for excavator and loader work

    Henrik Fredriksson, a keen plant and machinery enthusiast, from Sweden is 20 years old and has faced many challenges in his life. Henrik was born with a handicap which affected his legs and as such he has been confined to a wheelchair for most of his life. They lived in the countryside and his father...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-26-2010

  • Hitachi's take centre stage in Quebec

    Canadian plant enthusiast Guillaume Poitras has been out an about taking photos of machines in Quebec and recently came across one of his favourite excavators at the moment a Hitachi Zaxis 200LC-3. This machine is a demonstration model which is being field tested by local company Les Entreprises Bourgeois...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-22-2009

  • Downwell Demolition Brings Flyover Down to Earth

    Demolition contractor Downwell Demolition has recently completed a 6 week project demolishing the Sir John Hawkins flyover in Chatham with help from excavators by Hitachi and Komatsu. The flyover's demolition is part of a multimillion pound redevelopment of Chatham city centre which includes the...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-04-2009

  • Hitachi excavator recovery video

    I came across this excellent video on the Dutch machinery website Bouwmachineforum which is a very friendly and informative source for all things involving plant and machinery. It shows the recovery of a Hitachi ZX110 11 ton excavator which has ended up in a river. I can imagine a very expensive repair...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-05-2009

  • 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 has slipped off a ledge and the cab has collided...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-29-2009

  • Excavators take to the water

    This interesting series of photos was sent to me last week by Michael Lyne who is Plant Co-ordinator at Saltash based national plant hire company W.H. Bond. They show their Hitachi Zaxis 225USR-LC excavator at work in the river camel in Wadebridge Cornwall. The machine had to be specially fitted out...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-28-2009

  • Which machines do you use?

    Having been in the plant hire side have used most machines from the small ones up to the larger ones, the largest being a 46 tonne volvo, and numerous road rail equiptment. I do find the newer machines to be slighty under powered compared to the older machines, I'm not sure if this is to do with...
    Posted to Plant and Machinery (Forum) by jim_james on 02-24-2009
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