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Michael Bullocks dozer diaries

12 Sep 12 Regular reader and contributor Michael Bullock has recently headed off to sunnier climes down under in Perth, Western Australia. He has sent me some great photos from his current exploits in Oz, but in this post I am going to take a look back at some dozer’s Michael has worked on/with here in the UK.

It’s a close call for classic O&K excavator

11 Sep 12 Whilst researching for the recent O&K post here on the Digger Blog, I came across this video on You Tube and felt it was yet another one I should share with you.

Sanderson Forklifts gone but not forgotten.

10 Sep 12 During a recent chat with our good friend Roy Vinden, who is the Telehandler Product Specialist for Caterpillar Building and Construction Products at Desford, we were reminiscing about the now long gone UK forklift manufacturer Sanderson, with whom Roy was a former employee, which I thought deserved a post here on the blog.

Crane jib gets caught up down under

9 Sep 12 I have kindly been sent these crane incident photos from my ex school friend Michele McNulty, who has lived in Australia for the past 25 years.

Takeuchi micro digger gets forked!

6 Sep 12 Over the years we have been fortunate to receive some very interesting and often amusing photos from our Scandinavian plant & machinery friends, and here is another one I just had to share with the Digger Blog readership.

Hitachi EX8000-6s delivered into Africa

5 Sep 12 A gigantic fleet of Hitachi mining excavators has been expanded with the recent delivery of two EX8000-6s to Vale’s Moatize coal mine in Tete, Mozambique. The EX8000-6 is the largest excavator made by Hitachi and these are the first of these models being operated outside North America and Australasia.

Crusher bucket is a Champion addition

4 Sep 12 Fred Champion Groundwork’s has recently added a crusher bucket to its plant portfolio. The Digger Blog paid a visit to the site where the attachment is currently being put to good use, on its Doosan DX340.

Accidents will happen!

3 Sep 12 We haven’t posted many “oops” moments for quite a while now, so here is a small selection that some of our readers have submitted on our Friends of the Digger Blog page.

From the operators seat to salesman (Part Two)

2 Sep 12 Continuing our look back at the operating career of current M&M Plant salesman Luke Harris, with more photos from his excellent archive collection.

Flannery Plants Hyundai R480LC-9 is a prime mover in Nottingham

30 Aug 12 Machine operator and regular Digger Blog reader, Scott Hastings, has been out and about on his travels, and snapped some shots of an impressive Dash 9 Hyundai excavator at work.

Chinese wheeled loader 40 not out!

29 Aug 12 A loading shovel produced by Chinese manufacturer LiuGong, is still working on a daily basis some 40 years after it rolled off the production line.

“Duck” driver has a lucky escape

28 Aug 12 I came across this video recently, and despite the rather dodgy camera work involved, I thought I would share it with the Digger Blog audience.

O&K excavators from the archives

27 Aug 12 I’ve been digging deep into the Digger Blog archives for some shots of the famous red and white liveried German excavators that were manufactured by Orenstein and Koppel (O&K).

From the operators seat to salesman (Part One)

26 Aug 12 Luke Harris is well known in the South West for being a top class operator, and in more recent years a machinery salesman with M&M Plant Sales Ltd, the local dealership for Case, Manitou, Rammer and Wacker Neuson. Luke has kindly shared some photos from his machine operating past.

Finning customers get to grips with the latest Cat’s at Desford

23 Aug 12 Last week the Digger Blog was once again invited to visit Caterpillar UK’s impressive visitor centre facility in Leicester, for a Finning customer day’s event.

Rusty old Broyt still puts in a days work

21 Aug 12 One of my followers on our @TheDiggerBlog Twitter page, Ian Robinson, has recently come across a late 1950’s Broyt excavator in its homeland of Norway, and he has kindly sent in some photos of it.

Tilt & Rotate with Engcon and win a Cap & T- shirt

20 Aug 12 Its Digger Blog competition time again, thanks to our friends at leading tiltrotator manufacturer Engcon Group, who have kindly offered ten baseball caps and five T-shirts for our lucky winners.

Big Komatsu & Cat mining kit in action. (A fitting tribute to a friend)

19 Aug 12 Here is superb action video featuring large mining equipment that I am dedicating to the memory of one of my Digger Blog readers who has sadly lost his fight for life.

Digger gets hands on with the Kubota KX080-3

19 Aug 12 This past week I have spent some time on Kubota’s 8 ton class offering, the KX080-3, which has been on demonstration on the site I am currently working on in Looe, Cornwall.

Eddie Warrener’s Kubota KX080-3 in action

16 Aug 12 The Digger Blog has recently got hands on with Kubota’s KX080-3, which I will be reporting on in an upcoming blog post. In the meantime, here is a video featuring one of the UK’s most famous Kubota 8 tonner owner/operators in action.

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