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CBL chairman Barford dies (15 August 2007 00:00) Clive Barford, chairman of compact equipment specialist CBL, died suddenly on 30 July. Having trained as an accountant, he joined the family business, Aveling Barford, as managing director, leaving some time after British Leyland took over to start hi...

The one to watch out for is Terex with their 12 tonne site dumper they unveiled earlier in the year at SED.

I took this photo whilst in Spain earlier in the year I cant remember much about it except I recall it to be an Ausa dumper.

Great photos

The JCB HMEE is quite an impressive machine that has been specifically developed to satisfy the needs of the US armed forces: --- THE HIGH MOBILITY ENGINEER EXCAVATOR (HMEE). The Fastrac tractor, launched in 1989, was the first agricultural tractor that could cope with rough terrain and travel on ro...

I think this is the best place to put this? Ive found a video on Youtube of JCB at the Indiana State Fair 2007 which includes a 3CX centremount doing some showing off, a 524-?? Loadall and a JCB HMEE (the High Mobility Engineer Excavator)- the very large backhoe loaders designed specially for the US...

Superb shots Richard, Thanks for sharing them!! Hawkins were a firm from up country who have operated under quite a few different names over the years :dizzy: Less said about that the better me thinks!! They are called Hawk Plant at this moment in time :roll: Nick. :thumbs_up: Now Im not absolutely...

I have seen second-hand (used) Hitachi excavators for sale with telescopic dippers in the UK press, but never seen a excavator with such an adaption in use. Bobcat to my knowledge offer a telescopic dipper on some of their 3-5 tonne mini ecavators. There was a recent article in the UK magazine Earth...

A Triple Articulated Boom (description as used by JCB) perhaps?
Click link for photos of the boom configutation im thinking of:
http://www.tchjcb.co.uk/usedequipdetails.aspx?ID=11611

Tana machines are also sold for soil compaction purposes by Atlas Copco owned compaction equipment manufacturer Dynapac.
http://www.tana.fi/tana.php?page=news&id=2