Building a Cat 6030 South Wales

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Building a Cat 6030 South Wales

Post #1 by martyn williams » Thu May 10, 2012 3:31 pm

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Post #2 by Gavin Phillips » Thu May 10, 2012 4:58 pm

Is this the first of the CAT 6000-series excavators over here in the UK?
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Post #3 by Joes1989 » Thu May 10, 2012 5:40 pm

It was the first of four that Hargreaves have got coming! I'm pretty sure the last on will be the face shovel version that's going to be on display at hillhead!
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Post #4 by martyn williams » Thu May 10, 2012 7:40 pm

All the machines at Tower have been given names by the local primary school children.Will take photos when I am up there next
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Post #5 by jasonfisher » Thu May 10, 2012 8:13 pm

the one at hillhead will be no 3 for Hargreaves, 4th one still to come, so far one hoe (1st) and one shovel there
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Post #6 by SRB » Sat Apr 20, 2013 12:49 pm

Passed by Tower this morning, managed to grab these couple of pics, not the best as i was a fair bit away! This is no3 the Hillhead display machine....

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Post #7 by Joes1989 » Sat Apr 20, 2013 5:01 pm

Is it an easy site to find? I really want to take a road trip over to see the machines in action! Whats the viewing into the mine like?
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Post #8 by jz145 » Sat Apr 20, 2013 6:02 pm

Joes1989 wrote:Is it an easy site to find? I really want to take a road trip over to see the machines in action! Whats the viewing into the mine like?


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Post #9 by GIZZY » Sun Apr 21, 2013 10:27 am

I got offered to drive a rigid on this site a few weeks ago but its too far for me to travel
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