F Shephard'Hill Caterpillar 245 shovel?
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:38 am
Hello Everyone,
There doesn't seem to be many posts on here these days? .( So I thought I would ask a question.
F Shephard'Hill bought in the late 70s a new Caterpillar 245 front dump shovel & 3 new Caterpillar 769C trucks. I was an operator of 1 of the 769s (DT93) & spare driver on the 245 shovel @ their Pen Bryn Oer OCCS in the mid 80s.
Can anyone clarify for me whether the original purchase of the 4 machines was for ,either their dam job they built in the Isle of Man, or for its dam job they built @ Carrsington in Derbyshire?
I know they all worked together on all 3 of these contracts, but, what happened to these 4 machines after the Pen Bryn Oer OCCS finished up in South Wales?
These were excellent items of plant & the reliably of them was second to none. They were well maintained by SH & the story of this Caterpillar equipment is a testimony to Caterpillar itself.
Photos of the 4 of them, new can be seen on clockworklozenges flickr pages, if he wouldn't mind posting them on here.
I only know of 3 companies in the UK that used the Cat 245 front dump version, obviously F Shephard'Hill, RF Budge, Levak Construction.
I don't know if Stokey Plant had any in their large fleet of Cat 245s? I read last week, @ 1 time Stokey Plant had 60, Cat 245s on hire? Is this correct?
The front dump shovel had a higher load capacity than the bull-clam, but the bull-clam type had a slightly higher dump speed over the truck.
The only problem I found with the shovel, in various digging conditions, was that there was so much power in the crowd out, it used to skid the machine back & in hard digging it would make quite a mess on the area the machine was standing on, so clean up & re-leveling had to be done often, thus wear on the track groups & undercarriage was inevitable.
If anyone can fill in the gaps, that would be great,
Regards from Ontario,
Mark Williams.
There doesn't seem to be many posts on here these days? .( So I thought I would ask a question.
F Shephard'Hill bought in the late 70s a new Caterpillar 245 front dump shovel & 3 new Caterpillar 769C trucks. I was an operator of 1 of the 769s (DT93) & spare driver on the 245 shovel @ their Pen Bryn Oer OCCS in the mid 80s.
Can anyone clarify for me whether the original purchase of the 4 machines was for ,either their dam job they built in the Isle of Man, or for its dam job they built @ Carrsington in Derbyshire?
I know they all worked together on all 3 of these contracts, but, what happened to these 4 machines after the Pen Bryn Oer OCCS finished up in South Wales?
These were excellent items of plant & the reliably of them was second to none. They were well maintained by SH & the story of this Caterpillar equipment is a testimony to Caterpillar itself.
Photos of the 4 of them, new can be seen on clockworklozenges flickr pages, if he wouldn't mind posting them on here.
I only know of 3 companies in the UK that used the Cat 245 front dump version, obviously F Shephard'Hill, RF Budge, Levak Construction.
I don't know if Stokey Plant had any in their large fleet of Cat 245s? I read last week, @ 1 time Stokey Plant had 60, Cat 245s on hire? Is this correct?
The front dump shovel had a higher load capacity than the bull-clam, but the bull-clam type had a slightly higher dump speed over the truck.
The only problem I found with the shovel, in various digging conditions, was that there was so much power in the crowd out, it used to skid the machine back & in hard digging it would make quite a mess on the area the machine was standing on, so clean up & re-leveling had to be done often, thus wear on the track groups & undercarriage was inevitable.
If anyone can fill in the gaps, that would be great,
Regards from Ontario,
Mark Williams.