Not much info here on JCB/Volvo machines

[Nige]

....not everyone knows how brutal a "miner" can be to a piece of equipment.

We always questioned whether the word miner should be spelled with an “e” or an “o” at the end.

 

[kshansen]

So, I guess the old diesel uni-loader is all the beast I remember it to be. . I'm dying from laughter because not everyone knows how brutal a "miner" can be to a piece of equipment.

Well like I often said when I started at the quarry back in 1968 and all spillage was cleaned up with a hand shovel. Now days the people treat a skid-steer like an old shovel, just drop it when done and let someone else worry about it!

That's if they even bother cleaning up spillage! The last I was there I saw tail pullies that I know were installed a couple feet of the bedrock that nowadays are below ground level a couple feet!