Hands on with a Volvo D Series excavator

by Nick Drew | Wed 28 Aug 2013

Hands on with a Volvo D Series excavator

Another opportunity has arisen for the Digger Man Blog to get in the seat of a new machine. At this Sunday’s Family Plant Show & Operator Open Day Volvo have invited me to test drive its 22 tonne offering the EC220DL.

It’s been a while since I operated a Volvo excavator, having spent a considerable amount of time in EC140’s and EC210B’s in the past. The EC220DL hydraulic excavator will be displayed on the Volvo stand alongside a BL71 backhoe loader, at the L Lynch Plant Hire sponsored, UK Plant Operators event that we covered on the blog recently, which takes place on Sunday 1^st September, just off junction 24 of the M5. Our regional salesman Richard Shelbourne will be on hand, to offer advice on the latest Volvo products and deals. My last encounter with an EC220DLC took place in the glorious setting of Lorient, in France last year as seen in the photo below.

Here is a promotional film from Volvo featuring the D Series hydraulic excavators.

Look out for my report from this show here on the Digger Man Blog next week.

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