The Classic Machinery Network

Pic from today

Nice one Nicky; I see the operators are getting younger too

Jeremy

This old D8 is working 14 hour days at the moment.
Been out since after Christmas.
Must be time for a rest soon.
The D8R has been stripping topsoil and overburden .
It's a great machine,but not as good as the older ones in soft going.

Proper muck shifting with proper kit. Thanks for posting.

Repairing blade skin on one of the D8's by the local welder.
Checking another one over ready for a scraper job on Monday morning .
Had to fettle the aircon on the D8R during this hotspell.
Was 35 degrees in bottom of pit the other day.
Got to get the D8R serviced this month too.
It will get all the filters plus new engine oil.
I change the tranny,hyd and fuel filters every 250 hours.
Filters are cheap in the battle against oil contam8nation and dirt.

Maintenance always pays dividends Nicky clean oil and filters go a long way to extending any machines life.

Jeremy

Currently stripping sod off fields to keep topsoil clean,to stack into heaps for garden centres around the country.
It has to be spot on to make the grade and a box is to only tool for the job for such a large area.
Currently have about 6 weeks to go at,then hoping for more to be released throughout this year and next.

Chucking it down with rain in that first pic; do you heap the topsoil for them after you have removed the sod? Not so hard on the equipment I'd guess?
Nice pics thanks for sharing.

Jeremy

Yes Jeremy,once sod is off,I strip soil and take it the gates.
This field will yield around 10000 ton and it's costing them around 0.58p per cube to get it there.
That's 7 quid a load in their eyes.
They've been spending 18 quid a load stripping it and making a mess since Christmas with hard-core roads and diggers etc.
The site is massive

The rain doesn't affect the tractor and box at this time of year.