Mogman
What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
See you’ve not got over your pyrotechnics problem yetBurn it burn it a fecking drott burn the barsteward......................................
See you’ve not got over your pyrotechnics problem yetBurn it burn it a fecking drott burn the barsteward......................................
Did you ever get into Aberthaw Aiden? ..... what a s**t hole that was ..... a vasthole
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yeh the quarry and cement plant down there Aiden .... a sea of slurry in the winter months .... there'd usually be a loader at the workshops, waiting for me, then take that one down to the quarry, a couple of miles and fetch another back ..... was never enough dry ground down there to service/repair 'em and no way could you get the van down there .... bloody horrendous placeI think I was in the quarry at Aberthaw, and maybe the power station too. Don't remember anything to bad so not the same end as you by the sounds of it.
Spend most of my time in the workshop at walters yard, did get out a bit but not as much as the other boys.... mainly on saturdays and sundays when no one else would work![]()
built to run hard, 24 / 7 / 365 ..... C@T powerOur local quarry run a Cat - this replaces the one that was loading me in the photo below when I had landy and trailer back in 2007- apart from testing it and setting it up this morning I was his first load (has bloke from cat in with him showing him whats what) - they have had old one for about 13 years and ive never seen a stand in suggesting it was out of action and must have well over 20000hrs (even with France shorter working week)View attachment 3406View attachment 3407 ..... bit of an accuracy test sprinkling it in the 7.5 tonner
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They’ve got a couple of Cat loaders in a sand quarry we do some work in. They are both less than 5 years old and look brand new. They were both broken down last time I was there though, one with an earth fault in the wiring loom that kept making the machine shut down, and the other one with regen issues. I think they have Volvos coming next....
as a backhoe for agricultural work in the countryside for farms, what you recommend, with forks to be used as a forklift, to buy used, which makes an economic model that you can find spare parts in case of repairs in the workshop
forgot the big C A T there RossJCB / Case / New Holland all reasonable brands with good parts networks and if you buy right you will lose very little in depreciation