PIDGEON AMONGST THE CATs

[newjcb123uk]

This pidgeon is in the form of a new Hitachi purchased for my new Landfill Cell to replace a CAT 345B - the reason being that the local Cat representative refused to take the old Cat as a trade in for a new one as they just had too many trade ins I know have you ever! My contractor who was 100% loyal to the Cat brand was forced into buying a Hitachi 470 but also saved himself £60k in the process. This has been a huge mistake by the Cat dealership and suspect that this may not be the last orange machine to join the fleet. I should have some more photos of this big orange machine in action very soon

60K really?

Honestly - I thought you could only save big time on a Doosan or XMG or something but this saving is for real

[Joes1989]

how many cat models and how many hitachi models have you operated and for how long
also how old were they ,did you get them new ,are the comparable machines (i.e )same class
just interested
cheers graham

Graham,

Seeing as im only 19 ive only been on the newer cats and the newest hitachis!

Joe

[newjcb123uk]

Heres some more pics of the new 470 I've working for me - she did sport a bucket for a couple of weeks untill another 345 cat became available and now the big breaker has been fitted.

These same pics should appear in Northern Irelands Equip mag next month

[Nick Drew]

Fantastic photos Chris!!

I have always rated Hitachi kit But for some reason I don't seem to see so much of it around just lately ???

Nick

[Martyn Henley]

Chris ..what great photos ..have you had a go yet in the Hitachi ?

The other thing is great editing on the pics ..the sky looks really good blue

Martyn

[newjcb123uk]

Chris ..what great photos ..have you had a go yet in the Hitachi ?

The other thing is great editing on the pics ..the sky looks really good blue

Martyn

The thing is Martyn when you have such a wonderful array of machines at your disposal there is this thinking that "I must get a drive in that tomorrow" and like any great procrastinator tomorrow never comes! So I keep on promising myself the odd 15 minutes here and there and will eventually get round the lot.

Yes the photos turned out well and have to say these are the first photographs ever that I've published that haven't received as much as a highlight - to get a day like that this year was a miracle.

I was going to send you some model rain clouds next week just to make the models more authentic and real looking lol:

[Joes1989]

Fantastic bits of kit the new hitachis! Before i was on plant i never liked them for some reason...but i trained on a dash 3 ZX210 n i love them now. I think they are definately one of the best 360 makers out there along with komatsu and volvo.

How many hours are on the clock now? And how does the operator like it?

Joe

[Martyn Henley]

The thing is Martyn when you have such a wonderful array of machines at your disposal there is this thinking that "I must get a drive in that tomorrow" and like any great procrastinator tomorrow never comes! So I keep on promising myself the odd 15 minutes here and there and will eventually get round the lot.

I know what you mean Chris ..spoilt for choice dont help matters either ..

Now then ..dont need them model clouds Chris, thank you ..as i never have enough models here at one time

Martyn

[newjcb123uk]

There's a couple of week of break in hours on the clock - but to be honest the operators are totally spoilt by new machine that when I ask them "well? what do you think?" they usually just shrug their shoulders and grunt "sok" or something like that

[Joes1989]

Haha....Nice to get a review of the machines!



Joe