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Alright Jo, 26 ADT's straight away :o well they got 2 of them lol Will keep you posted when the big boys start turning up, gonna be alot of action going on there. Would love to know when they been doing for the past few months, been digging down a few foot the entire lenght of the A46 ?? then fille...

Muck-shift & earthworks are still out at tender stage AFAIK, main works starting late spring. Job is JV Carilion & Morgon-Est (was Macs & AMEC but both been taken over since awarded!) This is only half the job from Dishforth to Leeming - the next phase kicking off in 2011 goes as far as ...

As a footnote of sorts it appears that Blackwood Hodge's UK operations were bought by Imaco, the plant sales business founded around the time of the demise of the Brown Group by David Brown, with ownership passing to Terex UK. Don't you mean Gordon - David was DJB Dumptrucks at Washington bought ou...

Think they did the earth-moving on the Leeds Bradford Airport runway extention in early 1980s

Great shots there ChrisMK1 :thumbs_up: Thanks for braving the weather to get them, as if it was the weekend I saw the announcement for in paper the weather was cold and foggy so i dropped the Idea of driving up there and freezing in low visibility (Memories of the hours spent waiting for the moving...

Had it on hire this summer, was 2nd hirer of it (only about 30 hours on clock) demolition co had hired it before & stuck a breaker on and then had someone driving it who can't of known what they were doing as they stuck the breaker through the boom and proceeded to peck with it!! :o Only driven ...

6530 with zero hours on when it came on hire. Had dump truck trailer/ dust supression bowser & post nocker on it this summer - sweet to drive

Some nice machines on the job, night closure of A1 at Wetherby few weeks back to demolish old Walton Rd Bridge. Think when Wetherby Grange Bridge was demolished back in the summer and the job ran over into the afternoon they played safe and just dropped the central deck that evening, then closed it ...

Rare shots Chris,it's not often you see them on grass before they start. :thumbs_up: From memory they were sat there nearly a week LOL, waiting for permit to work, something to do with archeology I think. Shot of them all lined up is taken just south of the River Nidd Bridge northern end of the job...

Think they wre same scrapers that were on the southern section (FHM - Ferrybridge-Hook Moor) of the Darrington to Dishforth DBFO A1(M) upgrade that RMG (Macs/AMEC & KBR JV) built 2003-2006. The northern section Wetherby-Walshford used company from Alconbury called Billings D8 & boxes (have p...