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Hi Tone,

Not had anything to do with New Holland or formerly Kobelco excavators oh I just remembered I did do a few days on Phil Hills import Kobelco which was a good little machine and looked like brand new despite having over 6000 hrs on the clock!!

Nick

Great old time photos Tim, That old TS must of had a respray at some point ???? Very Grey??? Do you live around the North Hampshire area ? I can recall Rocon and #i think they were based around the Basingstoke area or somewhere nearby :dizzy: Done a fair bit of work up that way myself over the years...

They run on red diesel, we have used 18,000,000 ltrs of fuel at this fuel point in 4 years.Our record is 43,000 ltrs into 20 locos in 24 hours.We have a faster turn around than Wiiliams racing team! That is Amazing Martyn !!!! :o :dizzy: ;) I used to Load/unload stone from those EWS trains during m...

Spotted this old Case 580F today at a tractor sales yard we visited today. This machine was my first love mate,being around the age of 4 when dads were able to take there nippers to work this machine was a god send,i could sleep on the padded innerwing as being there was no door to open with access...

my grandad who recently passed away, had a jcb mk2 which he used to used and was recently parked up due to the engine siezeing up i think, his wife (my stepgran) has asked me to move it and get rid of it, i am not really sure what to do, is it worth anything as 1 piece? or maybe just cut it up for ...

is john craxford a owner driver or does he have a few machines i think i saw a new 320d the other day down at dobwalls on the new bypass along side john jones and coles! great bulking pics nick :thumbs_up: No Tone, John Craxford is a plant hire firm based in Newton Abbott, I think they also run oth...

Hi all,
Here are some more Cat Excavators that were at work on the Whiddon Down improvement works in Devon a year or so ago, John Jones was the principal earthmoving contractor but some machines were hired in from Coles plant & John Craxford.

Nick

So how did you rate the Mustang the 580D and the equivalent JCB against each other? Hi Peter, Well Firstly I have to dismiss the JCB 805/6 straight away they were simply awful things to operate IMO ;) Big slow and clumbersome!! The Hymac 580D was a great machine for grading I operated one for over ...

Yeh Cracking Photos

What a fantastic place to visit Would love to get over there some day!!

Please post more top pics Chris

I am sure also that our New Member Steelfab (Julian) will be interested in one of those photos

Nick

Hi Jocke,

And a big welcome to CMN We are glad you have joined us

You may recognise me from Maskinisten also...I am a moderator there in the English Hymac section it's a great site, But CMN is easier for us as the English language is very helpful

Nick