video links thread anyone??

[V8Druid]

one for Kevin @Furniss

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=923778115760288

 

[V8Druid]

interesting vid on Menzis and their factory

 

[kabin man]

don't waste money stuff such as over the top scaffold and needle props..

https://x.com/i/status/1928792006169366549

 

[TiltyShaun]

don't waste money stuff such as over the top scaffold and needle props..

https://x.com/i/status/1928792006169366549

I don’t know that many people I could count on to turn up!!

 

[kabin man]

I don’t know that many people I could count on to turn up!!

same here.. I recon they are passers by who got roped in to earn a quick 10...

 

[HuntingHicap]

don't waste money stuff such as over the top scaffold and needle props..

https://x.com/i/status/1928792006169366549

Being on the larger side I've got a few builder mates who will pay me a drink to help lift beams if its an awkward one and not easy to use a genie. I don't mind it, its a question of confidence and knowing what you can manage. As for the homemade prop pals looks decent size timber at least?

 

[Gecko]

I don’t know that many people I could count on to turn up!!

All you need is a keg

 

[6feetdown]

Being on the larger side I've got a few builder mates who will pay me a drink to help lift beams if its an awkward one and not easy to use a genie. I don't mind it, its a question of confidence and knowing what you can manage. As for the homemade prop pals looks decent size timber at least?

Props are a long way out

 

[V8Druid]

Fascinating ..

used to be loads of 'em around here and can still recall seeing many operating when i was a kid, but mostly taking spoil uphill to coal tips and obviously powered ... last one I can remember coming down was at Newbridge/Abercarn area ... used to cross the road between the bottom of Hafodyrynys / the Pant and Abercarn

Crumlin viaduct, which can also recall seeing coming down, as a kid, crossed the valley above Hafodyrynys ... pity it couldn't have been saved ... was spectacular ... was used as a location in Arabesque https://live.staticflickr.com/video...kMGYwNzdkOWI1ZDQ1ODEzMDQ2NzY1YmYxYyIsInYiOjF9
was also a film where a biplane flew under it too, but can't recall the name of it ...
was one hell of a structure for the 1850s

crumlinviaduct.co.uk

This domain may be for sale!

www.crumlinviaduct.co.uk

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just tripped over another impressive pic of the Crumlin Viaduct

 

[kabin man]

Space dozer..https://electrek.co/2025/05/30/lumi...akes-them-the-tesla-of-heavy-equipment-video/

 

[Lancs Lad]

Space dozer..https://electrek.co/2025/05/30/lumi...akes-them-the-tesla-of-heavy-equipment-video/

I feel we've heard about this on here before....but they hadn't decided it's name.

 

[kabin man]

I feel we've heard about this on here before....but they hadn't decided it's name.

Big Trax.

 

[Bri963]

There was a clown on here a year or two back who was working on an electric dozer that was going to wow everyone in the industry. I think he might have been working on this machine. There was an article in Earthmoveronline today about this, apparently it was built in the UK. So the footprint of a D6, weighs about 30 tonnes, and will push as much as a D9. If you look at the video carefully, they show it “pushing” something like loose clinker. Well, let’s be honest, they don’t show it pushing very much at all.

 

[TiltyShaun]

just tripped over another impressive pic of the Crumlin Viaduct
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Trouble with some innovations is simply…….just because you can…..doesn’t mean you should!!
I wonder how many technical structures have been put up on a false economic basis with poor financial modeling.
Not saying that is an example, as it might have brought massive investment into the area at the time!!

 

[Lancs Lad]

There was a clown on here a year or two back who was working on an electric dozer that was going to wow everyone in the industry. I think he might have been working on this machine. There was an article in Earthmoveronline today about this, apparently it was built in the UK. So the footprint of a D6, weighs about 30 tonnes, and will push as much as a D9. If you look at the video carefully, they show it “pushing” something like loose clinker. Well, let’s be honest, they don’t show it pushing very much at all.

Thats the one

 

[Gecko]

Space dozer..

And, of course, the Blade Runner will feature state-of-the-art autonomous operating technology

“Even if you spend all morning heavy dozing and you’re a bit worried about how much juice you’ve used — well, your operators are going to take a union-mandated lunch break, right?”

The robots have a union already?

 

[Canal Navvy]

It's all very well being able to fast charge, getting infrastructure in place where dozers work could be interesting.
I don't know anyone who can see it being practicable and I have have spoken to quite a few as it was built pretty locally to me

 

[Gecko]

I was wondering along the same lines - what workplace has a 300kW charge cable close enough to the works site - then I got it.
This would be perfect for pushing coal into a coal fired power station.

 

[V8Druid]

Thats the one

yeh remember him

There was a clown on here a year or two back who was working on an electric dozer that was going to wow everyone in the industry. I think he might have been working on this machine. There was an article in Earthmoveronline today about this, apparently it was built in the UK. So the footprint of a D6, weighs about 30 tonnes, and will push as much as a D9. If you look at the video carefully, they show it “pushing” something like loose clinker. Well, let’s be honest, they don’t show it pushing very much at all.

 

[Bri963]

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Hello everyone, I think this may be somewhat of a long shot...
I am working for a startup company designing a new bulldozer! There are a couple of us engineers who, whilst we have experience with other offroad machinery, don't have specific experience with bulldozers! We are trying to find someone/somewhere where we can just come for an hour or so and either just see one working up close or it would be awesome to have a little drive forwards and backwards in one!

Does anyone know anyone with a Bulldozer, preferably in the midlands/northwest area (UK)??!

(preferably in the 25-30 tonne range like a CAT D6, and even more nice to have, one with a V-PAT blade!)

Thanks for any tips/hints!

DH

Think we've found him. Got a feeling I won't be invited for a test drive. Mind you fair play to whoever has put the money up and whoever sold the idea.