Godkin OCCS
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 10:14 am
Hi,
I thought that I would follow Mark’s example and write down my memories of Godkin OCCS. I was very young so a bit sketchy.
My first memory of the site was seeing the Demag H241 shovel sitting up on the surface, presumably opening-up the initial cut. The RH300 then arrived from Donnington with three 170C Wabco trucks. The H241 (acquired from the McErlain purchase) was transferred to Ryefield OCCS (Denby) and several RH75C backhoes were brought to site – one of which was branded Socmin (likely from NSM’s work in Belgium). All of the 75’s were matched with 33-11C’s.
After a large bench was made at the far side of the site the two W700 draglines were assembled by two Scott Greenham crawler cranes. This bench and the first cut for the draglines would eventually become tip 19 (the largest tip on site). There was a large wash plant on site and lots of Magirus Dutz tippers carrying slurry around. All of this was to re-process old deep mine waste I believe.
Eventually the W700 drags were parked (apparently due to a different mine plan due to the geology) and the RH75’s left site (sold abroad I think). A yellow RH120C backhoe was purchased to work with the RH300, closely followed by a red RH90C backhoe and a second RH120C backhoe (this time red).
Towards the end of the site the Wabco’s were sold and the RH300 loaded Cat 785 trucks from Roughcastle for a while (interestingly they had previously been loaded by the Demag H485 and all had damaged skips). The 785’s then disappeared and the RH300 was parked alongside the draglines (the W700’s were sold and the RH300 was scrapped on site). Just before the RH300 was parked the Demag H241 returned from Ryfield and was put to work taking tip 19 down.
The site offices were moved to work the last cut – by this time there was only the H241 and one RH120C remaining I think. Some other interesting bits of kit were a Komatsu 375A dozer, the O&K G350 grader and a Cat 245ME backhoe.
My last memory is of the H241 being removed from site by Hills Heavy haulage and the place being covered in TS24’s and 631’s. Many of which were from Fitswize.
Dave
I thought that I would follow Mark’s example and write down my memories of Godkin OCCS. I was very young so a bit sketchy.
My first memory of the site was seeing the Demag H241 shovel sitting up on the surface, presumably opening-up the initial cut. The RH300 then arrived from Donnington with three 170C Wabco trucks. The H241 (acquired from the McErlain purchase) was transferred to Ryefield OCCS (Denby) and several RH75C backhoes were brought to site – one of which was branded Socmin (likely from NSM’s work in Belgium). All of the 75’s were matched with 33-11C’s.
After a large bench was made at the far side of the site the two W700 draglines were assembled by two Scott Greenham crawler cranes. This bench and the first cut for the draglines would eventually become tip 19 (the largest tip on site). There was a large wash plant on site and lots of Magirus Dutz tippers carrying slurry around. All of this was to re-process old deep mine waste I believe.
Eventually the W700 drags were parked (apparently due to a different mine plan due to the geology) and the RH75’s left site (sold abroad I think). A yellow RH120C backhoe was purchased to work with the RH300, closely followed by a red RH90C backhoe and a second RH120C backhoe (this time red).
Towards the end of the site the Wabco’s were sold and the RH300 loaded Cat 785 trucks from Roughcastle for a while (interestingly they had previously been loaded by the Demag H485 and all had damaged skips). The 785’s then disappeared and the RH300 was parked alongside the draglines (the W700’s were sold and the RH300 was scrapped on site). Just before the RH300 was parked the Demag H241 returned from Ryfield and was put to work taking tip 19 down.
The site offices were moved to work the last cut – by this time there was only the H241 and one RH120C remaining I think. Some other interesting bits of kit were a Komatsu 375A dozer, the O&K G350 grader and a Cat 245ME backhoe.
My last memory is of the H241 being removed from site by Hills Heavy haulage and the place being covered in TS24’s and 631’s. Many of which were from Fitswize.
Dave