Hitachi having a lye down

[Desert Driver]

Hi boys
This is the first time i've posted photos on here so I hope it works. Sorry only two and not that good but you get the idea.





This was a Zaxis 110 that I had delivered to Broxton. One hour later the driver rang in.He had been filling in a slurry pit on a farm when it fell through the ice. Lucky for him it went on that side and not down on the cab otherwise he would have been a goner. I went back with ( the JCB lads will love this ) a JS200 with a muncher on. We broke the top off the wall and let some of the water go then with a telehandler lifting the boom and me pulling on the track frame with the 200 managed to drag her out. We turned her over a couple of times then fired it up. Apart from a damaged fuel sender on the filter housing, bent side door and damaged drivers pride no real harm done.

Regards Keith

[bigkit]

He was lucky considering he was unlucky!

Was the machine new, looks like it?

[diggerjones]

hi keith, thats not the one you've sold to parkers [audlem] is it, ha ha. driver was very lucky just shows you how easy it is.

[Desert Driver]

Hi boys
Dylan, No he's had a 130 couple of years old. This one was a 110 and only 3/4 month old. The driver was, better not don't want to embarris him Geoff was not amused especially when the next day he broke the bottom front window.

BTW hows the new mini digger driver coming along?

Regards Keith.

[bigkit]

Keith, how do you rate the 130 against the 110?

Clive

[diggerjones]

what is btw or is that short for something like text talk. it was a good job geoff employed me in my early years because i must have hit everything going back then gas electric etc. it would bankrupt me in a week if i employed someone like my young self now. ha ha. i did see geoff dig the gas and electric up in one bucketful, the electric egnited the gas

[Desert Driver]

Hi boys
Clive,very little difference to top half, slightly smaller all round, tracks a little shorter with only one top roller.same engine and pumps. Go's out as a 130 and you would not know the difference. Even had one on sites working along side 130s and people never noted.cost to buy very similar but can be transported on a tractor and trailer legally unlike 130s which with three buckets,quickhitch weights out at 15 1/2 t and thats without two ton of soil in the tracks.
Dylon, BTW (by the way) sorry always using it on Trucknet but obvously to technical for plant men I was just wondering how your new lad was going on. We've had a few cable finders in our time but Geoff's got a big reel of insulation tape.

Regards keith

[diggerjones]

he hit the telephone wires once and had us stood in the bucket joining them together and then using the very same role of tape by the way i might be after a nother 1.5 ton mini, i am thinking takeuige wrong spelling. dose he have any with cab and exspanding tracks

[Desert Driver]

Hi boys
Dylan, we have one Takeuchi TB108 0.8t and three TB016 1.6t they all have expanding tracks but roll bars not full cabs. Oldest 18 month old.

Regards Keith

[diggerjones]

tell him to buy one with a cab on then i can buy it off him in a few years. by the the way it was a femail digger driver we got .

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