D9L & 637G - D9H & 637C

[andrew campbell]

Roly,

Superb Photos.

I wondered if you knew where Becher is based.
They used to do a fair bit on opencast around Leeds,Wakefield and Barnsley.

When I was 18 I had an afternoon riding shotgun in a D9G.
It belonged to Fitswise I remeber it was really noisy and sat in the seat vision was poor.
That driver said it was designed to shift muck and FFFF the driver.
Ive had on and off five years on D6's and D65's although would love a shift an a D8/D9.

Regards

Andrew

[bob]

great photos take me back to sixty's and seventy's when I was driving scrapers
i will have to find some photos of Blackwells when I was with them at aldliegh,normans cross
wittlesea, liddlington and orfordness haven't got any of orfordness as it was USAF early warning radar site cameras forbidden.I would have liked a picture of a 38rb which had sunk so that top of cab was below ground Blackwells had to get it out because it would stop radar working
PS Neil Becher base is Cransford in Suffolk
Bob

[Martyn Henley]

intresting to see a Mc Geoghan kobelco 210 there, i drove for them for a few years, furthest north i went with them was Milton Keynes.

[Rolyd8k]

The only other hoe i saw on the job were two PC600 LC,s with
very big buckets

[penfold]

Excellent pics Rolly,
you get on some great sites,

thats the kind of site i'd like to get on, someting to really get your teeth into, big 360, blade, or shovel, dont think i'd cope on them scrapers,

[Gavin84w]

We have 2 CEH s/n 637G,s in our used equipment lot at the moment down under and they have that distinctive little extension on the overflow guard the same as Blackwells in these pics, does any one know if Blackwells unloaded some of there 37,s?

[innes]

Hi Roly,
Superb pictures, thats real muckshifting, unfortunately dont see many spreads like that in the Uk anymore

[SRB]

Hey Gavin,

Blackwells sold the 637's a year or two ago and replaced with 31's, However, they didn't have the push pull arrangment on them.

SB

[bob]

looking on Blackwell website it looks like they have only got 2 single engine scrapers now
http://www.blackwellgroup.co.uk/company/plant

Motorscrapers (single engined) 2

Articulated dumptrucks (20t to 40t capacity) 65

Bulldozers (D3 to D9 capacity) 26

Excavators above 40T 13
Excavators below 40T 24

Motor graders 4
Towed hydraulic scrapers 4
Loading shovels 9
Crushers 3
Screeners 3
Compactors 45
Towed rollers 35
Water bowsers 8
Wheeled tractors 11
Rotavators 3
Cranes

4
Road Planers 1
Fork Lifts 4

when I worked for blackwells they had several 657 on orfordness we were running ts 14 with them
Bob

[BulldozerD11]

Some great photo Roly at start of thread

Cheers
Dave