Projects and daily going on’s

Bri963

Bri963

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Great picture, Mark. How many bits of kit do you have?
 
Mark

Mark

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Some photos from con expo in Las Vegas just before the pandemic took hold. If I wasn’t so hungover would have grabbed some better quality photos. By god the Americans do know how to put a show on you could walk around the place for a week and still not see it all. Last day of the show got cancelled as the Covid 19 progressed we were flying home that day anyhow made it home just before the travel ban.
 

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Mark

Mark

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Couple photos of me standing infront of the big komatsu shovel and Volvo 950. The the large Volvo ridged Dumptruck in the photo was manufactured in the Volvo plant in Motherwell, Scotland. Only about 20 miles from where I stay.
 

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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Couple photos of me standing infront of the big komatsu shovel and Volvo 950. The the large Volvo ridged Dumptruck in the photo was manufactured in the Volvo plant in Motherwell, Scotland. Only about 20 miles from where I stay.
that is some lube truck Mark :oops: :cool:
 
GazCro

GazCro

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Some of the field service truck set ups they had on show there really does put out way of working in the uk to shame. You can’t compare the set up they have to us working out of the back of a van.
But it's all relative though. And a bit like the Scandinavian machines that have been discussed on here before, there must be a lot more money in some areas of the industry over there. They travel some big distances to a job a well
 
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Lynchy

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How's work last as up in Scotland these days?
Was up there all the time,rail piling Glasgow,egip,Stirling dunblane Alloah,Aberdeen to Inverness,last job was up Tulloch for machine hired to Qts,between road n rail was fair bit spending
Used to work with some good lads from AB
 
Mark

Mark

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How's work last as up in Scotland these days?
Was up there all the time,rail piling Glasgow,egip,Stirling dunblane Alloah,Aberdeen to Inverness,last job was up Tulloch for machine hired to Qts,between road n rail was fair bit spending
Used to work with some good lads from AB
Works ticking over in Scotland just now count do with some big road jobs or some wind farms starting to keep everything going. Most of the work atm is housing market related.
 
Mark

Mark

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New Rammer 5011E added to the fleet this week. It weighs in around 5.5ton and is for carrier weights of 40 ton to 70 ton. Big investment for us as it’s only an attachment hopefully the planned work for it all comes off. I’ve been hiring in for the past couple of years and looking at the hire costs it made sense to purchase instead of hiring.
 

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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
New Rammer 5011E added to the fleet this week. It weighs in around 5.5ton and is for carrier weights of 40 ton to 70 ton. Big investment for us as it’s only an attachment hopefully the planned work for it all comes off. I’ve been hiring in for the past couple of years and looking at the hire costs it made sense to purchase instead of hiring.
that must be some breaker at 5.5t :oops::oops::unsure:
 
Grahams

Grahams

Don't complain - suggest what's better
New Rammer 5011E added to the fleet this week. It weighs in around 5.5ton and is for carrier weights of 40 ton to 70 ton. Big investment for us as it’s only an attachment hopefully the planned work for it all comes off. I’ve been hiring in for the past couple of years and looking at the hire costs it made sense to purchase instead of hiring
Looking at the pictures it looks like you attach the pipes direct rather than use quick couplers. Do you do that for extra flow?
 
Mark

Mark

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Looking at the pictures it looks like you attach the pipes direct rather than use quick couplers. Do you do that for extra flow?
Anything bigger than a 30 ton machine we direct mount them. The couplings never last with the vibration. Normally when a client is paying for this size of machine (cat 349e 52ton) and breaker you would have a 20 or 12 ton machine there to do the cleaning out of the track. It’s been brought in to break out 5/6 meter deep service tracks.
 
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Monkeybusiness

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I’m amazed you even have that under a QH seeing as it’s at the lower end of its carrier weight range - what a beast!
I’m sure the investment will pay off for you!
‘He who dares Rodders...’
 
GazCro

GazCro

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The photos don’t do the length of it any justice. It’s over 3.5m long. We’ve always ran Rammer hammers for over 30 years now and always had a good return from them.
Knowing what they cost for a 9 tonner you'd need to be getting a return off what i imagine that would cost. Can't beat self sufficiency if you can afford it though.
 
Mark

Mark

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I’m amazed you even have that under a QH seeing as it’s at the lower end of its carrier weight range - what a beast!
I’m sure the investment will pay off for you!
‘He who dares Rodders...’
This time next year Rodney...

We change between Digging bucket, Ripper tooth and hammer regularly on the machines so quick hitch is must. To be fair the machine is fit for more weight than that. I once had a 9.5ton hammer on that sized machine, it was cheap Chinese brand though wasn’t up to much in the way of power and limited your working range. The 50 ton machine we have Mass excavation sticks on them so are a good couple meters sorter than normal sticks on 50 machines that’s why there able to cope with the weight. We once used the Cat 345d for lifting a 10 ton culvert door on that was probably right at it’s limits of what it could do.
 

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