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Thanks for posting Graham/Martyn. Looks like you are being kept busy Graham. Hello angus, Yes always busy which is a very good thing,lots of big tackle to move in the coming few weeks,To help we are having a couple of top spec 5 axle nooteboom stepframe trailers which will be 9' 6'' wide,our 4 axle...

B100 LOADER wrote:Some smashing heavy haul photos fron Graham
Martyn

Thanks for putting them on martyn, there are 4x 777Gs 1 x 992G 1 x Cat 390 1x D8R and various pieces of support plant as well for the new load and haul contract at Whatley Quarry Nr Frome Somerset.

68a wrote:top pics

hello all,
there was a large allis working on the A48 beetween cross hands and carmarthen in the 80s ,cant remember the size but i think it had two engines and was owned by Fynnon Plant.

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gah1950 wrote:i remember using a yumbo years ago steve,but it was on wheels and i think they were marketed by saville tractors,they also had the o&k dealership here in south wales back in the 70s.

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cheers steve ,thats the one.

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i remember using a yumbo years ago steve,but it was on wheels and i think they were marketed by saville tractors,they also had the o&k dealership here in south wales back in the 70s.

Here here Jeremy thats exactly what i was shouting at the radio in my car on the way home! Everyone comes to us for the handouts or we are the first country to dig deep into its (empty pockets) so we are told. But this has become very political and points scoring, and personally i think it has back...

Thats what I though Graham, a smooth job though. Have you done you trip yet ? I was down Aberthaw yesterday in the hopper house.Two Cat scrapers on the stockpile which is huge now.We are running coal into Uskmouth again. Will phone in the week :thumbup: Martyn Hiya martyn, No i have,nt yet,i am off...

B100 LOADER wrote:Just under 120 tonne load
[video]http://youtu.be/wLg6Fx3TmsM[/video]

very good video,
cant understand why was,nt the car park coned off to make the drivers job easier to turn in,as always struggle is the norm .

Some of the posts here bring back old memories. I was the erector on the 4 Marion 182s at the Butterwell site for Taylor Woodrow in 1976 and the 191 for Parkinson in '76 or ' 77. I was also the erector for a 195 at a Wimpy mine near Workington. I was the erector on the 7500 at British Steel in Scun...

Hello Richard, I have not got my search a 100% right yet but I am getting there slowly. My father was a plant fitter for Sir Lindsey Parkinson on many of their o.c.c.s in South & West Wales. When I was a young lad I had a visit one night shift to the Marion 191 which worked at the Parkys Dunrav...