FIRST IMPRESSIONS: DOOSAN DL420-7: Latest 26-tonne Dash-7 wheel loader supplied to an Irish cement works.
SITE VISIT: JCB 100C-2: 10-tonne midi with an Engcon tilt-rotator has made an impressive start.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: CAT 320SLR: First new generation variants in super long-reach configuration in the UK.
PRODUCT LAUNCH: BOBCAT: Graham Black covers a significant multi-product launch of compact equipment.
TRAINING: STARS OF THE FUTURE: The cream of this year’s crop from the next generation of plant operators.
NEW PRODUCT: CAT 6060: Review of the new generation of Cat 600-tonne/3000hp mining excavators
HEALTH & SAFETY: CABBED DUMPERS: In conversation with the owner/operator of these new generation of dumpers.
AGGREGATES: FALKLAND ISLANDS: The Editor reports on aggregates processing in an East Falklands quarry.
SITE VISITS: BANKS MINING: Progressive restoration of Shotton and Brenkley Lane surface coal sites.
OPERATOR INTERVIEW: LLOYD PECKHAM: An excavator operator better known on social media as ‘Bearded Excavation’.
MARKET GUIDE: COMPACTION CONTROL: Review of the latest developments in compaction control technology.
DEALER PROFILE: WARWICK WARD: Husband and wife team’s remarkable achievements over the past 50 years.
SITE VISITS: EARLCOATE: Hampshire firm’s machines currently deployed at two very different sites.
SITE VISIT: i54 WOLVERHAMPTON: Machinery & systems on a large, self-contained earthmoving site in the Midlands
TECHNOLOGY: OFF-SITE CONSTRUCTION: Research enabling excavators to assemble pre-built structures on-site.
INTERVIEW: DUNTON ENVIRONMENTAL: Interview on the practical implementation of a so-called circular economy.
CLASSIC PLANT: LIEBHERR R911: Refurbished veteran excavator is proving useful on a Tipperary farm.
SERVICING: RH400 SLEW RING: Changing the slew ring on the world’s largest hydraulic excavator.
USED EQUIPMENT: Graham Black reports on a recent major UK auction of plant and machinery.
PLANTMOBILIA: CAT 375: Classic Construction Models has produced three different limited edition versions of Cat’s latest excavator.