• Thank you for visiting HeavyEquipmentForums.com! Our objective is to provide industry professionals a place to gather to exchange questions, answers and ideas. We welcome you to register using the "Register" icon at the top of the page. We'd appreciate any help you can offer in spreading the word of our new site. The more members that join, the bigger resource for all to enjoy. Thank you!

Search results

  1. M

    Dresser 4000 Loaders ?

    pair of Dresser 580s in Charles Hull yard in Waroona, Western Australia. apparently they were bought from rio tinto iron ore in the pilbara, for the job near perth, but that got shelved and they have been parked up for many years.
  2. M

    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

    lots of countys used here in herefordshire over the years in forestry operations that ive seen mate! heres some more pics!
  3. M

    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

    alot of contractors over here use farm tractors with blades and winches for skidders, old county tractors being popular! but big contractors use proper skidders
  4. M

    CAT vs Komatsu

    i bought all the stickers indivdually off ebay, didnt cost that much, like £1.50 each, after seeing a similar setup on a john deere tractor, the owner there had the deere logo pissing over a case logo! haha!
  5. M

    CAT vs Komatsu

    there is a bit of friendly banter between the cat boys and the komatsu crew on my site....so i added a sticker to the 320cl that im on to stir things up for lunch time discussion!! haha!
  6. M

    dont you just hate it when another operator drives 'your' machine??!

    i work for a kinda small outfit, im sort of the main operator on the cat 320cl, but for the last month ive been on a different job on a 13t, anyway return to one of our large sites, to a right wreck, cab full of mud, arse end in the ****, no grease on the pins, before i left is pic 1, and now...
  7. M

    more pics of equipment stuck!

    i was back to our large site today, been installing a bio disc for a campsite, but first day back, and our dozer driver got bogged 3 times! the 1st photo is from a work collegues phone, i was the other end of site at the time. Next 3 are from my phone, which came out good! We are capping off...
  8. M

    JCB 814 Super

    here is a pic of a local 814 that has been parked for around 2years plus, maybe more. The owner was an ex forestry contractor, basically some of his kit got parked up, and never used again! I remember many years ago it was on a clearfell near my home and had a harvesting head, no doubt its last...
  9. M

    Who Backdrags?

    i dont drive the dozer much on our firm, as im an excavator driver, but when i do my foreman and boss insist on backblading everything, they like to see no trace of machines ever being on site, and want every job real tidy, so im always smoothing out my excavator tracks aswell! here is a...
  10. M

    D8N on bondi beach, Sydney, Australia

    for the whole of 2007 i took a gap year to Australia after graduating university, and traveled all over and worked on a few sites etc. Anyway my first week there, took a bus from Manly where i was staying with a few lads to check out the girls on Bondi beach, but for the first 5mins i was...
  11. M

    Cat D6M lgp that im now operating (usually an excavator driver)

    hello mate, peterborough dosnt sound that close, we are based on the hereford/welsh border! thats a fair trek!
  12. M

    Cat D6M lgp that im now operating (usually an excavator driver)

    yeh i find it easy to work with, it does have the finger tip steering, which is a joy to use. It is really wet clay sub soil, but it seems no problem for the LGP pads. Although we have been lucky with the weather lately with about 2weeks of sun and breeze which is drying the soil out. Hopefully...
  13. M

    Cat D6M lgp that im now operating (usually an excavator driver)

    well we have alot of work on this year now, and my boss had finally bought a dozer, a US import, D6m LGP. Im a 360 driver, but due to staff shortages, and the other sites we are currently on, there is just 2 of us on a big muck shift. At the moment we had the pc210, the cat 320cl that i drive...
  14. M

    What sort off machine do you operate?

    tyler please find the story in the https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=1624 thread of equipment accidents, cheers
  15. M

    Equipment Resprays??

    Neil D: well all us lads on the firm like the 8080 as its zero swing, i had a track motor hose go last summer, the fitters had to take the exhaust manifold, belly plate, the whole back weight off and a whole afternoon just to replace the hose. So service wise is crap. Also we have had problems...
  16. M

    Equipment Resprays??

    well dirt digger, JCBs are a british made product and a very good machine. http://www.jcb.com/ i believe that jcb have probably not established a good dealer network in the usa, so that would reduce the amount of units sold there. They have now developed there own engine, instead of using a...
  17. M

    Equipment Resprays??

    you have hit the nail on the head there! if they didnt make such a song and dance about it, it wouldnt be as bad as everyone makes out it is, because its in the news day in day out!
Top