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Here is a preview of the next release from Gaz Evans and the first model he will supply fully built, painted and assembled in a very small quantity. Click on the image for more details.  Steven
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Must have!!!!
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Yes, a must have for my collection.
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Wow!!! That is just crazy!!! looks amazing! I have spoke to Gaz a few times and how he finds time to make customs,let alone make them to this standard! and not just one offs amazes me! Gaz if you're watching,put my name on one  I have a funny feeling the bucket will be special too 
Why is "phonetically" spelt with a "ph"? ... It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt The complex of Newgrange was originally built between c. 3100 and 2900 BC,[2] meaning that it's aproximately 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[3] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge by about 1,000 years.
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A quick update from Gaz, No more than 25 of the 320D coal shovel are being produced and 15 are already pre-sold. A pricing estimate is around £130. Steven
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Would be nice if he made a similar attachment for the Liebherr R 954 C, that would be great!!
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Remko, the 954 is way too big a machine for the coal shovel. They are typically found on 320-329 Cats and 916-934 Liebherrs.
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argie wrote:Remko, the 954 is way too big a machine for the coal shovel. They are typically found on 320-329 Cats and 916-934 Liebherrs.
Paul Well, a Front shovel then. But for the R 916 advance would also be cool.
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This looks like a great custom! Truly amazing work.
A question though, what's the purpose of these 20-30 ton front shovels? At first glance to me it seems as though larger machines are much more efficient at mining coal...
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J D wrote:This looks like a great custom! Truly amazing work.
A question though, what's the purpose of these 20-30 ton front shovels? At first glance to me it seems as though larger machines are much more efficient at mining coal...
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J D Its a very popular machine to load coal into trucks or ADT's in the UK and Europe.
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I think quite a few coal seams are only a few feet thick,I have seen these load straight into 8 wheel tippers,when I first seen this method I thought the same but it does make alot of sense,the bigger machines just strip back the over burden
Why is "phonetically" spelt with a "ph"?
... It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak up and remove all doubt
The complex of Newgrange was originally built between c. 3100 and 2900 BC,[2] meaning that it's aproximately 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[3] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge by about 1,000 years.
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gbarnewall wrote:I think quite a few coal seams are only a few feet thick,I have seen these load straight into 8 wheel tippers,when I first seen this method I thought the same but it does make alot of sense,the bigger machines just strip back the over burden Try inches thick. Lol
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renaultman wrote:gbarnewall wrote:I think quite a few coal seams are only a few feet thick,I have seen these load straight into 8 wheel tippers,when I first seen this method I thought the same but it does make alot of sense,the bigger machines just strip back the over burden Try inches thick. Lol Yeah, a little off topic, but I sometimes wonder how companies such as UK coal actually turn a profit on the smaller sites, when you factor in price of equipment, rising fuel costs, staff wages, bunging the local population with a "community fund", the cost of reclamation/restoration after coaling, sometimes having to change a road or rail layout! All for a few seams of coal that may only be a few inches thick.... compared to some of the mines in the US where a coal loading shovel could quite well be a P&H cable shovel!
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Has anyone heard from Gaz recently? I've been trying to contact him for a month or so and haven't had any luck. I have an order with him that I'd like to touch base about.
thanks
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