New Cat D10 on M5 this week.

[Basilbrush]

I was going up the M5 this week & I could see beacons coming towards me, it was a low loader being escorted carrying a lovely new D10. I guess it would either be going to Portbury dock for export or peraps heading down to the china clay works around St Austell. Anyone know where it went? I couldn't get the camera out in time to snap it.

BB

[go back]

dont think it went in to cornwall talking to finnings last saturday nothing happening apart from selling a couple of wheeled diggers andthe firm that runs the dozers in ecc just canceled a d8

[Nick Drew]

dont think it went in to cornwall talking to finnings last saturday nothing happening apart from selling a couple of wheeled diggers andthe firm that runs the dozers in ecc just canceled a d8

Would that be Lobb Brothers Justin ??

Nick

[SRB]

D10T was heading for Ffos-y-fran on the back of west of scotland wagon.,

Tractor is fitted with additional sound suppression from factory, including different engine enclosure and sound suppression material and Idlers with a rubber wear material.

SB

[Renaultman]

D10T was heading for Ffos-y-fran on the back of west of scotland wagon.,

Tractor is fitted with additional sound suppression from factory, including different engine enclosure and sound suppression material and Idlers with a rubber wear material.

SB

I'll have to keep my eye out for her, I thought there were more dozers there today.

[Gavin84w]

We have a few SS D10T in our area, there has been some cases of the idlers breaking up the material but other than that the quiet package does the job. Removal of the carrier roller is worth 1 decibal on its own.

1 mine in the hunter valley has a very simple philosophy on sound suppression, instead of spending millions on modifying machines they just buy out the whining neighbour!!

[Deas Plant]

Hi, Gavin84W.
I LIKE that philosophy. For mine, an even better one is, "You don't like it, YOU move away."

The environmentalists and the 'do-gooders' have had way too much say for way too long. One guy over on the Heavy Equipment Forums has a signature line that reads, "Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?"

People don't want airports in their area 'cos of the noise. O.K., show us all how to teleport us and all our air freight for free.

People don't want power stations in their area. O.K., which of your appliances that use electricity are you prepared to do without - like ALL of them?

People don't want prisons in their area. O.K., show us how to get EVERYBODY to stop breaking laws and become model citizens - - NOW.

Think for a moment about how many people would be thrown out of work if the environmentalists had their way on just those three points.

Back to the noise issue - I have worked through an era where there was little understanding of ALL the effects of exposure to high noise levels. I am now paying for it with tinnitus and hearing loss. But can we take noise reduction too far? F'rinstance, a GOOD operator can and will hear some minor faults in a machine that he knows before they develop into BIG bucks. Is it possible to reduce the noise levels to the point where that is no longer possible?

Just my 0.02.

[Gordon 2]

Hi Deas hope yr well mate, We call them NIMBYs NOT IN MY BACK YARD. we were working in a sand and gravel quarry once, with a nieghbour that did nothing but whinge about the wrong we were doing to the planet !!!! One day i said to him over his BRICK wall, that i was going to track an 40 tonne digger into his garden and load his NEW house into my dumptrucks and tip it into the pit. after a blustering reply and threats to call the police i quietly told him that he would be doing his bit to save the planet by returning all the aggregate and stone used to build his house !! i then told him to go buy a dictionary and go look up the word hypocrite. We never saw him, again, oh dear Ha Ha Ha

[Tracshovel]

We have been working on a particulary difficult project since last year....very,very wet and difficult conditions. We stopped through the winter due to the weather and went back into it in May this year when the weather turned good. Over the time of the project we had some neighbours (wealthy suburb) complain about our working times...like 07.30 in the morning is early . Anyway the other day this woman phones up the project manager and tells him that there's something wrong with one of our dozers! "Ah.. what would that be" says the PM? The resident says "theres definantly something wrong with it.....you better get it looked at, it's making a different noise!" "somebody might get hurt". PM says " so when did you become an engineer"? By this time the resident was having none of it and was complaining bitterlly about the noise that the machine was making and that we better get it looked at . Oblivious to the fact that we have been working in stinking wet conditons for months and months with the same equipment....only now we have some dry weather, the ground has dried out and the tracks are running dry. She WAS hearing a different noise.....the tracks banging away, dry, as we raced on with the work while the weather was good! Music to our ears...we were actually getting somewhere now that the ground had dried out.

[Basilbrush]

D10T was heading for Ffos-y-fran on the back of west of scotland wagon.,

Tractor is fitted with additional sound suppression from factory, including different engine enclosure and sound suppression material and Idlers with a rubber wear material.

SB

I'll have to keep my eye out for her, I thought there were more dozers there today.

Any chance of a photo or two next time you're there, if you get a chance Renautman??

BB