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Just to clarify the position - I sold the machine. I thought it was only a couple of months ago, but just checked and to my amazement it was November last year - posts amended accordingly. A leaking oil cooler (corrosion on tank bases) prompted a quick decision - no time for a proper repair and the ...

Just realised it was the end of last year that she left - post amended accordingly. Here's a view of the old lady (then into her 30's) giving a much younger Heathfield H28 a helping hand into the scrap trailer! The bucket is a new one from a 30t Hitachi - the original bucket with it's distinctive sh...

And it was Derek Rowell I spoke to about the long dipper! He'll possibly remember as I doubt many people would have known about it.

I think the bucket ram might be on there - it seems to be an extended boom and the top of the ram would be just hidden by the bucket?

Tony

Richard - am I right in thinking Bradshaw had just the one H16B? In which case I was custodian of this very machine for 22 years, selling it on only last November! I'm guessing the photo is of the machine being collected when new from Peterborough. Bradshaw H16B.jpg Bradshaws sold m/c no. 108 when s...

It might have been the 38RB dragline (it was yellow but could have been a bit smaller?) (edit: no, I'm sure it was a 33RB) I saw one day 12 years or so ago, digging shale from a high flat topped stockpile and depositing it behind. I was chatting with an old boy while we stood and watched for 10 minu...