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  • 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

  • Beats a flymo any day!

    Nick Drew Operator Services has recently taken delivery of a Berti CKT/SB80 flail mower from South West machinery dealership Machine serve The Berti CKB/SB80 is a hydraulic flail head for mini-excavators in the 2,5 - 4 tons range and is ideally suited for mulching grass, bushes scrub, etc. Compact in...
    Posted to Digger (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2009

  • 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

  • New Switch at Ashford

    Posted to Hammer (Gallery) by Hammer on 06-26-2009

  • 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

  • Hitachi Zaxus 210 at Amsterdam factory

    Posted to Colin Sowman (Gallery) by Colin Sowman on 12-24-2008

  • Euclid Hitachi rigid dump truck in Welsh open cast mine

    Posted to Colin Sowman (Gallery) by Colin Sowman on 12-24-2008
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