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Nice shots Pblack, especially the ones with the slow shutterspeed blurring the background!


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Mike D550

Think the guy who designed that only had a 30/60 set square in his pencil case, I do not like the look of that!!!!! The glass to the side of the cab looks like an awful after thought!!!!!!!!!!

I hope that is not the future design of large cat mining excavators!!!!!!!!!!

Mike D550

Here's a couple of photos I took of the EX1200 at Gateshead last year!

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Mike d550

Hi Joe, yes I normally only photograph cats but there are a few machines which are not part of the cat family that I am happy to take a photo of, the 777 ex1200 being one of them! I have a couple of photos I took of it taking down the Dunston rocket last year which I will get round adding one day!!!...

Thanks for the info Bigkit, i'll try and get up there tomorrow.

Which buildings are getting pulled down in Gateshead? I am on a training course tomorrow at Team Valley and have a day off work on Friday to do some digger perving!!!!!!!!!!

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Mike d550

It seems the whole opencast mining sector is a mess with costs of fuel rocketing, coal prices plummeting and cheap imported coal coming in by the ship load :thumbdown: certainly not good times!!!!!! I keep hearing mutterings about UK coal being 100's millions of pounds in debt, could the same situat...

That is bad news indeed :( , especially for all the workforce who are now facing an uncertain future in this economic climate! I agreed with Argie, I just hope the administrators keep the sites open for as long as possible and hope for a buyer. Was there any particular reason for the company's demis...

Excellent pics Joe , I wish I could get some time off work to head down to Lodge House and get some photos there.
I might try and head up to Park Wall North this weekend and see what going on up there, thats if its not totally under water!

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Mike D550

Have not seen any 475's in the UK Ian, the biggest K dozer I've seen is a 375 operated by Blackwells, it was push loading Cat 631G's in the North East!

(EDIT):- Am I correct in thinking there was a 475 in the UK that went to Greece (Cyprus) to work?

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MikeD550