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- Thu Mar 12, 2015 10:05 pm
- Forum: Mining equipment
- Topic: UK Coals minorca site pics
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11358
Re: UK Coals minorca site pics
Phil, Great Pictures there :thumbup: I'm heading down there with a bit of luck this month in hope to get some shots, I was wondering how would I get to that crossing? Is there a street or road that I can get access to it from? I am not from the area but I am only a 40 minute drive away. Regards Hi ...
- Sat Aug 30, 2014 7:31 pm
- Forum: Earthmoving models
- Topic: NZG CAT 5130 project.
- Replies: 33
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Re: NZG CAT 5130 project.
There was something I forgot to mention on your dhs thread, seeing as this has been stripped of all decals, how are you going to replicate the side vents, as those we're very finely done in decal form?
- Mon Jun 03, 2013 12:13 am
- Forum: Mining equipment
- Topic: UK Coals minorca site pics
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11358
UK Coals minorca site pics
I finally had a little spare time last Saturday morning, so I jumped on my bike & had a look at UK Coals Minorca site, situated just to the edge of the village of where I live, in Measham. There's a public ftpath that cuts straight through the middle of the site, & the haul road to t...
- Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:21 pm
- Forum: Models Events/Show reports
- Topic: Spalding 2013
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18029
Re: Spalding 2013
I will not be going this year. this is because , it is the same weekend as the big holland show. :thumbdown: Most of the traders / collectors are going to Holland. :arrrrgh: so i feel that it will not be a good show this year. Bummer. Though they always seem to pick a bad day, i.e, snow, mothers da...
- Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:00 pm
- Forum: Models Events/Show reports
- Topic: Spalding 2013
- Replies: 3
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Spalding 2013
Just thought I would ask.....who's making the trip to Spalding Model Show this Sunday, 17th March?
- Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:54 pm
- Forum: Mining equipment
- Topic: ATH in administration
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9982
Re: ATH in administration
Reading in the Sun City pages today, UK Coal has split itself into two, & will now be known as Coalfield Resources, with the company divided into a mining business & property firm. It seems without restructuring the business - hit by falling coal prices, UK Coal would almost certainly have g...
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 10:33 pm
- Forum: Mining equipment
- Topic: ATH in administration
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9982
Re: ATH in administration
Very interesting, but apart from the jobs of the machine operators & the like, I think there is a bigger problem for the UK opencast scene if small mining companies start to go bust. One of the arguments for the protest group set up in my own village of Measham towards UK Coals new Minorca site ...
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 10:10 pm
- Forum: Mining equipment
- Topic: Some big iron at bauma China 2012; shovel, trucks & dozer
- Replies: 11
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Re: 105t, 950HP bulldozer at bauma China 2012
It pains me to say it but I bet that'll be better than you think! :eh: It a copy no doubt of the Komatsu, but look what the Japanese and the Koreans have done to the earthmover and crane markets! Slow to start, copy the best and buy their way in. :shock: People said Hitachi would n't be any good in...
- Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:13 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Hillhead 2012 - Mining Machinery News
- Replies: 42
- Views: 18495
Re: Hillhead 2012 - Mining Machinery News
Jeremy Rowland wrote:Nice pics Phil shame you could not have met up with the rest of us.
Jeremy
No worries, maybe next time? It was all a bit of a rush for me on the day as I had to do a job in Warslow on route! Even missed my usual partner in crime, Mr R M Furniss.
- Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:56 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Hillhead 2012 - Mining Machinery News
- Replies: 42
- Views: 18495
Re: Hillhead 2012 - Mining Machinery News
Here's a few of my phone pics.... http://www.classicmachinery.net/forum/images/post_img/4839638024fe829867c7d5.jpg URL of the original image: http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e53/philblack1260/IMAG1739.jpg http://www.classicmachinery.net/forum/images/post_img/1937014494fe829880d5fb.jpg URL of the o...