Lafarge, Mountsorrel quarry

[argie]

Some photos taken of the plant at work at Lafarges granite quarry, Mountsorrel in Leicestershire. These were taken 2 years ago whilst the first of their RH120Es was being built.
Aveling Barford water bowser.

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Slightly dented 777B

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Cat D300

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Cat 988F

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Paul
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[Mike d550]

Sweet photos Argie, i like the green/red paint scheme on those machines, that 988F has moved about a bit, it once worked at the Thrislington quarry near Ferryhill, i only managed to get a couple of pics of it before Lafarge seemed to subby out all the work to local companies who now use Bell ADT's and Daewoo shovels, shame really because i love cat 988's

Regards

Miked 550

[637E]

Ive a feeling the 988F has been sold and shipped to the middle east in late 2007.

Regards

[davej]

mike, that subby is one of my best customers!

they are ramping up production at thris..there;s a Case cx700 upthere, D9L goes up on thurs..plus a few more dumpers

Dave

[Mike d550]

I will have to get a look up there and get some pics of the D9L working, Who does the machine belong to? The only D9L that i've seen recently in the North East belongs to Becher but that is working for UK Coal !

Regards

Mike D550

[Joes1989]

The site im working on now is literally 10 minutes away from there and is actually where all our stone,sands and gravels come from.

Joe

P.S Argie are you planning on posting some pictures of your trip to J C BALLS?

[davej]

Actually i checked it's a D9N...taking it up tomorrow...it belongs to Banner Contracts its spent most of its working like life pushing slag down at tarmac's roadstone plant in the steelworks at lackenby...

Dave