Conor
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Yeah we ordered semi quick hitches and grading buckets to suit all mini diggers from Strickland in Bauma
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6feetdown
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Like Christmas every few weeks
Conor
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That almost all the new toys for this year
we have one more secondhand Brokk 500 coming from the Netherlands, and a new crewcab isuzu tipper due next month. Need to get them all out and earning now!
Conor
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Company I used to work for doing big earthworks and civil have wound down operations drastically the past few years meaning most machines have been parked up. They've sold a lot off now, apparently to upgrade the fleet so went for a look around and bought a couple of generators. Well over 1000 items of plant and commercials for sale
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Lancs Lad
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Pin heck! Demand dropped ?
Conor
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Things had slowed down around 5 years ago here which didn’t help but basically came down to a family dispute. What began with two brother grew exponentially at their height they had 15000 employees here, now 3rd generation involved and disagreements on direction brought a lot of the business to a grinding halt.
HuntingHicap
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one generation to start it, one to grow it, one to f~@# it up....seen it a few times.
Conor
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Few pics of some of what we've been up to the last while. First trip for the new low loader picked up the doosan 470 and back to yard to put on high reach arm then out to our big project in Abu Dhabi. Couple of pics of the workdown going on for those interested.
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Conor
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Cheers Graham, no not much in the way of rain here, in fact last time I saw any was when I was back in Ireland in August
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
to quote our Vinny, yet again ........ " you lucky bas***d "Cheers Graham, no not much in the way of rain here, in fact last time I saw any was when I was back in Ireland in August
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6feetdown
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And you've not died or had a droughtCheers Graham, no not much in the way of rain here, in fact last time I saw any was when I was back in Ireland in August
Lancs Lad
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Maybe they should have clocked that more folk means store more water ...And you've not died or had a drought
Report warns of widespread drought in 2026 without a wet winter
Record dry spring and summer heatwaves mean that without winter rain there will be drought next year with impacts on nature, agriculture and navigation
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6feetdown
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Crazy that this country has shortages every summer or so.Maybe they should have clocked that more folk means store more water ...
Report warns of widespread drought in 2026 without a wet winter
Record dry spring and summer heatwaves mean that without winter rain there will be drought next year with impacts on nature, agriculture and navigationwww.gov.uk
Invest in the infrastructure properly stop allowing the population to drain through mass expansion and relax some of the bs that stops stuff being built.
I love nature and think animals are way better than the majority of people, so do it properly animals will die but create areas whilst building the schemes and stop so much red tape, quangos etc in front of them
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muckyman
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I would be under that big umbrella
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
and stop the water companies losing a lot more water than is actually delivered to consumer's supplies ... Approx 130% more than what is used, never reaches our taps because of leakage and losses in the decrepit systems
stop paying divi.s and massive salaries and INVEST in the infrastructure FFS
Conor
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Swings and roundabouts Graham, working in 50 degree heat during summer you may as well be in the rain you sweat that much it's miserableto quote our Vinny, yet again ........ " you lucky bas***d "
winters great though 25 to 30
Conor
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Lancs Lad
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Great Pics Connor. Local drivers or ex pats? Good rates?We're back in the biggest shopping mall again for the next phase of demo for their expansion project - cos it's not big enough already
Just looking at the forecast here tomorrow and pondering...
Giles
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Great Pics Connor. Local drivers or ex pats? Good rates?
Just looking at the forecast here tomorrow and pondering...
Not sure if it’s true but heard drivers are usually Bangladeshi etc on sh1t money and ruin machines / trucks etc but foremen engineers etc are westerners
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