The Classic Machinery Network

My father-in-law, who passed away last October worked for Derek Crouch and was responsible for bringing Big Geordie - the giant, 3,000-tonne dragline which was once the biggest machine of its kind in Western Europe. This worked on the open-cast coal mines in Northumberland. A Bucyrus Eries 65 - 65 b...

I do wish I had some photos, if I have my 1st wife has them and I will have to wait until she is pushing up daisies before I can get my hands on them!!!

I first started work for Dick Hampton's on the 27th February, 1967 on the A1 (M) Durham Motorway, following an interview with, I think his name was Dennis Bateman. I started on the same day as another trainee called Maurice Smedley. We had 2 young surveyors as our managers, one was called Philip But...

68a wrote:I,m currently working on the backfill of one Hamptons docks at Liverpool
Over 5 million cube getting pumped back in getting spread about with 4 D6's and an 8

I worked on this Contract in 1970 digging it out!!!!