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At Christmas a local earthmoving firm lines up all its machinery in one parkup - what a sight! Gambier Earth Movers, you rock. :)
mamiya 6MF 50mm f/4 + kodak portra 160. lab: the icon, los angeles, ca. scan: epson V750. exif tags: lenstagger.
The M101 Peeper, built on the chassis of the M114, uses a hydraulic turret to fire its 8 ATGMs over obstacles while the hull and crew remain in complete cover. The Peeper excels in defensive scenarios, when engineers have time to build dedicated shelters: the turret can elevate to fire over a 7' tall barricade, and can lower to place the entire vehicle behind cover. To help dig these positions while on the move, the crew can fit the Peeper with a removable dozer/shovel blade, allowing the driver to handle the heavy earthmoving while the crew follows behind with shovels. The Peeper carries a crew of three: a driver/missileer, a missileer/dismount, and a mechanic/dismount. Both dismounts sit in the rear cabin, a holdover from the Peeper's roots as an APC. When the Peeper is parked under cover, the dismounts guard the flanks while the driver aims the missiles; on the move, one of the dismounts can access missile controls from the rear compartment to fire on the move, without extending the turret's hydraulics.
These missiles are stolen directly from Erik.
Chatsworth House
Chatsworth is home to the 12th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and has been passed down through 16 generations of the Cavendish family.
Grade I Listed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatsworth_House
Paine's Bridge
by James Paine
c.1759–c.1761.
The three-arch bridge carries the main drive over the River Derwent up to the house.
The bridge was carefully angled so as to be seen from the house and oriented in such a way as to provide a striking view of the house from the entrance driveway.
On the south side of the bridge, the two cutwater pedestals support late C17 sculptures by Caius Gabriel Cibber.
Grade I Listed
River Derwent
The largest river in the Peak District and a major tributary of the River Trent, which it joins just South of Derby.
The Derwent rises on the Eastern flank of Bleaklow and is approximately 50 miles long, draining a large proportion of the county of Derbyshire.
The Park
The 1,000-acre park was chiefly designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown between c.1760 and c.1764.
Lancelot Brown and his foreman Michael Millican oversaw an extensive programme of earthmoving, drainage, levelling and tree planting in the park.
His signature features of rolling green slopes and trees carefully placed singly or in clumps particularly on hills to enclose the view can all still be seen today.
The park is enclosed by a 15-kilometre dry stone wall and is home to red and fallow deer, sheep, cattle and many wild animals.
Stabilised Pavement's Cat RM500 reclaimer/stabiliser being used on the upgrade of Ryrie Street. Subbase stabilisation is commonly used to improve the strength or permeability of the host material within either pavement rehabilitation or construction applications. Common binders for subbase applications include cement, lime or a blend in conjunction with slag or fly ash. Michelago, New South Wales, Australia.
with few vehicles left here like this Liebherr 580 (there is another Liebherr 566 and an excavator).
In fact it was seized by justice few days ago, so I enjoy as much as possible before they sell it or some stupid people destroy it...
And it was the first photo trip with my new Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 HSM !
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Steam engines were used to drive corn-mills, centrifugal pumps, stone crushers, dynamos, chaff-cutters, hay-balers, threshing machines, and saw benches. Portable steam engines were typically towed using horses or in the latter part of the steam engines era, motive power including self-propulsion or towing by tractors, trucks etc were used.
Many Davey Paxman steam portables were exported to Australia in large numbers. The businesses of the Intercolonial Boring Company (IBC) and John Blyth/Moffat-Virtue Limited provided a steady stream of customers. IBC operated a large number of water drilling rigs all over Queensland and Northern Territory as well as a considerable merchant business in hardware and machinery. Every bore that IBC sunk needed pumping plant which in turn required an engine to power it. Many of these bores are still in use albeit with more modern prime movers. Moffat-Virtue Limited, which had branches in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Toowoomba, were major suppliers of overhead shaft gear, especially for woolsheds, and customers needed engines to drive such gear.
Many old steam portables have survived in Australia's hot dry climate. They have suffered far less rusting and corrosion than machinery exposed to the British climate.
The relatively good condition of some surviving Australian portables appears to attract the interest of dealers looking to profit from prices available in overseas markets. This is a sensitive issue to preservationists in Australia who naturally wish to see historic machinery retained in their own country. Portable steam engines are protected under the Removable Cultural Heritage Act 1986.
The Paxman portable steam engine positioned on the Marian Street island in Mount Isa, northwest Queensland, is a prominent feature when driving into town from the east. Although there are some features of a classic Paxman engine missing, it has been nicely painted and appears to be in good order.
The Machinery Mile:
Otherwise known as the Great Machinery Mile, this collection of pastoral equipment hosts a range of equipment from standing engines to earthmoving machinery. A wonderful display of machinery, some of it very rare and almost all collected within 100 miles of the town, can be seen.
Visitors can expect to see many forms of old machinery, including a 1917 Ruston Proctor Tractor (only two more of this model left in the world), Steam Devil, a big Excavator driven by three horse powered steam engine, which runs along one railway line. Made in 1880 and sold in 1882, it would be safe to say this excavator is the only remaining one of its kind. There’s also a 12 tonne Stuart Tank that has been converted to a dozer; the first series grader made by Caterpillar in 1935, an early 1900 Lacre Light Truck, and a 1914 Republic Truck.
Ilfracombe, Queensland:
Ilfracombe, a small railway town in central-western Queensland, is on the Landsborough Highway, 600km west of Rockhampton. The nearest large town is Longreach, 30km to the west.
Situated west of the Barcoo River, the Ilfracombe district was explored by the New South Wales Surveyor-General, Thomas Mitchell in 1846, by Edmund Kennedy in 1847, and by William Landsborough in 1862. Pastoral occupation followed Landsborough's expedition, the first pastoral station occupied in 1863, and the Portland Downs station (which continues until this day) taken up soon afterwards. In the early 1870s the New Zealand and Australia Land Company (headquartered in Scotland) acquired a vast tract, 'Wellshot' comprising almost half of the territory of the future shire. Wellshot Station, named after a major shareholder's Glasgow estate, was broken up for closer-settlement in 1948.
In 1890 the colonial government indicated its intention to extend the railway line from Barcaldine to Longreach and named a temporary terminus 'Ilfracombe', apparently so as to clearly distinguish the new railhead from Wellshot Station, the latter name having given over to the district generally. Ilfracombe had a brief boom: its status as temporary railhead in the early 1890s gave rise to five hotels and several businesses. A school opened in 1893, Anglican and Catholic churches within a few years, and artesian water supplemented the meagre town dam supply in 1896.
Teamsters or carriers as they were sometimes known, provided an essential service of carrying goods and stock across trackless country to the new stations of western Queensland. The first teamsters into a new country were limited to the use of drays, which were more manoeuvrable than wagons. Among the essential equipment of these first teamsters were axes to clear tracks of land, picks, and shovels to make creek crossings and a piece of brightly coloured rag. The rag was tied to a wheel so that its revolutions could be easily counted. These rough measurements of distance gave carriers a guide for cartage charges and provided a bush standard which remained in use until the introduction of surveyors and roadmakers. Ilfracombe provided work for teamsters up until a branch railway line was opened from Jericho to Blackall in 1908. At this time many teamsters traded in their horse and ox and replaced them with motor lorries. Others hung up their reins and looked for work with the railways or at the wool scour which opened in Ilfracombe in 1898/1899.
In 1902 widespread drought depressed the local economy, and, according to local historian Peter Forrest, within two years Ilfracombe's 'golden years were over'. Ilfracombe Shire was severed from the existing Aramac division in 1903 and the post office was converted to a shire office, which functioned in that manner until 1966. The surrounding pastoral stations employed workforces sufficient to keep three town hotels going up until the 1920s. During its heyday, Ilfracombe was very much a town of firsts - in the 1890s Wellshot Station boasted the largest head count of sheep in the world, while Beaconsfield Station, to the town's north, developed innovative sheep wash that was at the forefront of wool processing technology (the ruins of which are listed on the Queensland heritage register). The motorised postal service from Ilfracombe to Isisford, begun in 1910, was Australia's first.
Other town facilities, though, were rudimentary, the galvanized iron housing decidedly primitive by the onset of the postwar years. The wool-boom of the 1950s saw a spurt of civic improvements; a swimming pool was built in 1948, a war memorial park (1951), reticulated water (1953), a shire hall (1956), and new shire offices in 1966. The collapse of wool prices in the late 1960s ended Ilfracombe's second episode of prosperity, with many rural workers laid off, sheep properties operating on rationalised workforces.
Ilfracombe today is a one-pub town, (the Wellshot Hotel), and has a shire hall, a racecourse (two meetings a year), a caravan park, the State primary school, a swimming pool, a golf course, two churches, and machinery and heritage museums. Romani Hall (1999) has a display dedicated to the 2/14th Ilfracombe Light Horse Troop. Ilfracombe's best known citizen is Dame Quentin Bryce, Governor of Queensland 2003 - 2008, and Governor General of Australia from 2008 - 2014.
Source: Queensland Places (queenslandplaces.com.au/ilfracombe-shire), Outback Queensland, Queensland Heritage Register, & Richard Carr's Paxman History Pages (www.paxmanhistory.org.uk/portsaus.htm)
Capacité de la décapeuse : 28,28 m³
Travaux de terrassement de la tranche 3 de ZAC Europôle 2 de la Communauté d'Agglomération Sarreguemines visant à créer 3 plateformes pour un total de 234 915 m².
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Hambach (57910)
Adresse : ZAC Europôle 2
Construction : Avril 2025 → Novembre 2025
Un pezzo dell'interessantissimo parco macchine di un'impresa vicentina, oggi purtroppo non più attiva.
Il proprietario era un' appassionato di macchine movimento terra e spesso acquistava macchine dalle aste nel nord Europa.
Sossano (VI), 25-03-2014
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A very interesting machine of this contractor from Vicenza, today closed.
The owner liked earthmoving machines and sometimes he buyed equipments from the auctions in the north Europe.
Sossano (Vicenza, Italy) 2014-03-25
Standing abandoned, rusting and neglected in the long grass, this earthmoving vehicle looked like it would appreciate some attention, such as posing for one of my nightscape photos. I don’t know why this and the half-dozen or so other metal monsters were left to the elements at the Jaspers Brush Airfield, Australia, but I did my best to restore some of their collective dignity.
With the Milky Way climbing the southeastern sky over Coolangatta Mountain, I made my best effort to provide foreground lighting and backlighting of the cabin to give a sense of an implement standing by for some destruction or construction, as the case may be. A light ground fog in the background added some atmosphere while another abandoned device lurked on the right of the shot, waiting for its turn to shine, or rather, to be shone on.
I blended two near-identical single-frame shots to create this image, with one shot exposed for the tractor and the other trying to capture the Milky Way’s delightful details. Each photo was captured with a Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera & a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens, using an exposure time of 13 seconds @ ISO 6400.
Chatsworth House
Chatsworth is home to the 12th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and has been passed down through 16 generations of the Cavendish family.
Grade I Listed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatsworth_House
River Derwent
The largest river in the Peak District and a major tributary of the River Trent, which it joins just South of Derby.
The Derwent rises on the Eastern flank of Bleaklow and is approximately 50 miles long, draining a large proportion of the county of Derbyshire.
The Park
The 1,000-acre park was chiefly designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown between c.1760 and c.1764.
Lancelot Brown and his foreman Michael Millican oversaw an extensive programme of earthmoving, drainage, levelling and tree planting in the park.
His signature features of rolling green slopes, and trees carefully placed singly or in clumps particularly on hills to enclose the view, can all still be seen today.
The park is enclosed by a 15-kilometre dry stone wall and is home to red and fallow deer, sheep, cattle and many wild animals.
Composition of 2 separate Raw image adjusted using Photomatix, Photoshop and Topaz Adjust.
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Foyle & Marine Dredging Hitachi EX1200 triple boom known as Grizzly 2.0 with a Hitachi Zaxis 490LCH under its huge arm before it left for another project.
The machine was modified by Luyckx in Belgium and worked for Aertssen before being sold to Foyle & Marine Dredging.
Just another incredible excavator that has been used on the Aberdeen Harbour Expansion Project!
FV180 CET (Combat Engineer Tractor) (1977-on) Engine 12,200cc Rolls-Royce C6TFR turbocharged diesel engine, developing 320 hp.
Dimensions Length 7.54m, Width 2.9m, Height 2.67m
Combat Weight 17.5 tonne
Road Speed 35mph (56 kh.h
First produced at the Royal Ordnance in Nottingham in 1977, the CET entered service from 1978, In 2013 the CET was withdrawn from service by the British Army.
The FV180 Combat Engineer Tractor or C.E.T. is an amphibious specialist armoured vehicle formerly used by the British Army. A tracked, lightly armoured vehicle, with amphibious capability, the CET was used by Royal Engineers in ground preparation for bridge construction and towing activities in the front line of battle, such as digging vehicle fighting pits, constructing earthen barriers, repairing roads, recovery of disabled vehicles from water and other obstacles, preparing riverbanks for vehicle crossings and clearing obstacles
Its two man crew sit in tandem positions on the left hand side of the vehicle, each with a set of driving controls facing opposite directions. A large earthmoving bucket is fitted at the rear of the vehicle and a rocket-propelled anchor on a 100m hawser attached to an 8 tonne winch can be fitted to the front. When operated from the rear seat the bucket is used for earth moving; clearing obstacles, paths or digging tank or gun pits and anti-tank ditches. When operated from the front-facing seat it can be driven on the road, and the anchor can be used to pull the CET up steep obstacles such as riverbanks.
The vehicle is NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) proofed and has an air filtration unit, supplying clean air to the crew when operating with the crew hatches closed down in a contaminated environment. The NBC air system is also used to inflate the buoyancy aids required to trim the vehicle when swimming.
The amphibious propulsion is provided by two Dowty water impellers, one mounted on each side of the vehicle and controlled by the commander in the rear seat facing forwards. The water jets are used to steer the vehicle when swimming, this is with the use of movable cowls directing the flow of water. When not in use, the propulsion unit water intakes are closed off with armoured covers to prevent damage during digging operations. Flotation aids are required to trim the vehicle for swimming
Maximum speed in water is 8.5 knots, the vehicle will wade in 1.8m of water and requires preparation for operating in deeper water than this as it achieves buoyancy. FV180 can tow a Giant Viper anti-mine system. is air-transportable weighing 17.5 tons by a C-130 Hercules aircraft.
In 2013 the CET was replaced in British service by a new, larger vehicle: the 30 tonne Terrier armoured digger. The CET is still used by Forces of India, Singapore and the Ukraine.
Diolch am 94,425,826 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 94,425,826 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 28.05.2022 at Smallwood Steam Rally. Cheshire REF 160-212
Another load of gold bearing ore being transported from A1 mine between Gaffneys Creek and Woods Point, to their processing plant at Maldon, Victoria. 15 loads each day are shipped to Maldon. The processing plant at A1 was closed down due to environmental concerns, The company A1 Consolidated Gold then purchased the mine and plant at Maldon so they were able to stay in production, 750k round trip. This image was taken on the Mansfield-Woods Point Road at Kevington, Victoria, Australia.
Snijder CAT articulated truck that has been modified to carry one accropode after it was unloaded at the Aberdeen Harbour Expansion Project.
Chatsworth House
Chatsworth is home to the 12th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and has been passed down through 16 generations of the Cavendish family.
Grade I Listed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatsworth_House
A view from The Stable Block looking West.
To the left of my image:
North Front and North ‘Belvedere’ Tower
A belvedere is an architectural structure sited to take advantage of a fine or scenic view. The Belvedere at Chatsworth affords magnificent panoramic views over the estate.
The Park
The 1,000-acre park was chiefly designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown between c.1760 and c.1764.
Lancelot Brown and his foreman Michael Millican oversaw an extensive programme of earthmoving, drainage, levelling and tree planting in the park.
His signature features of rolling green slopes and trees carefully placed singly or in clumps, particularly on hills to enclose the view, can all still be seen today.
The park is enclosed by a 15-kilometre dry stone wall and is home to red and fallow deer, sheep, cattle and many wild animals.
Whatley quarry taken from the same location as the next picture but this one was at the start of the job. Earthmoving just beginning and in the background a Class 47xxx bringing in a Train of Empty Hoppers.
9024, 9034 and 9030 make quite the grimy trio as they drop downgrade with a loaded export coal rake bound for Newcastle on a warm spring day.
ABCO Marine backhoe dredger Capall Mara working on clearing a cable route for the Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm just off Thorntonloch beach.
The vessel is fitted with a Liebherr R984 excavator in a long reach configuration.
Tower City Center, originally known as Cleveland Union Terminal, is a large mixed-use facility located on Public Square. its most significant landmark is the Terminal Tower (1930). When it was built as part of the Van Sweringen brothers' Union Terminal station, it was the tallest building in North America outside of New York City until 1967, when the Prudential Center was built in Boston. The related earthmoving required for the Union Terminal complex was the second largest excavation in history after the Panama Canal. The Terminal Tower's 42nd floor observation deck is open to the public on weekends and for special events.
Elliott of Cheltenham Iveco T-Way 8-wheel tipper WU22YPC.
In service for just over 6-weeks, the driver keeps this lorry in immaculate condition.
I've been told this is a T-Way model but I've also seen similar lorries referred to as an X-Way.
Whatever this model is called this looks a great lorry in a great livery.
Capacité de la décapeuse : 28,28 m³
Travaux de terrassement de la tranche 3 de ZAC Europôle 2 de la Communauté d'Agglomération Sarreguemines visant à créer 3 plateformes pour un total de 234 915 m².
Pays : France 🇫🇷
Région : Grand Est (Lorraine)
Département : Moselle (57)
Ville : Hambach (57910)
Adresse : ZAC Europôle 2
Construction : Avril 2025 → Novembre 2025
Been working on more building instructions for my smaller construction equipment, available from here.
The dozer on the left is based on the John Deere 450J and has the standard features. The blade on the front can be posed or changed out, the tracks roll on certain surfaces, and the driver has easy access through a hinged cabin roof. There is also an attachment point on the rear for a ripper blade.
The skid-steer (wheeled) loader and the multi-terrain (tracked) loader are both build on the same chassis. The liftarm can hold a wide variety of attachments to suit the task. As the driver is demonstrating the wheeled loader is also capable of wheelies...naturally.
The Isuzu is one of my older designs but the chassis had a slight rework. I changed the way truck bodies attach so that I can switch between them seamlessly. I also added a trailer hitch so now I can get creative with some trailers to match the truck bodies.
Comments, criticism and questions are welcome, and as always keep an eye out for more.
Série : Des machines & Les Hommes (des Travaux-Publics) - Une livraison d'engins pour le chantier de terrassement.
Série : Machines & Men of Public Works - A delivery of machinery for the earthmoving site.
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BN westbound coal empties K51 "UFIX" round "Breezy Point" at 1707 behind C30-7, U30c, C30-7, U30c, (ATSF) SD40-2. The lead units have just come around the horseshoe curve at "Breezy Point", following #75 which I show in my last posting as it is about to start into this same curve. I was told this curve was even tighter than THE Horseshoe Curve; in three years the new version of "Breezy Point" would be much wider and would require an enormous amount of earthmoving to create the fill on which it would rest - to the right in this picture.