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I think you boys would be impressed with this machine/company
http://www.huddig.se/default.asp?lng=en
Theres been a leccy company up round my croft using one of these .. Its huge and an impressive beast.gif "thumbs up")
When I enquired about the boys using it, they wanted to put a power line through the middle of a bog next to me, and I said "youre joking .. right ?"
They said .. " it never gets stuck" .... well ... it went straight down
I wished I was there at the time to see it ... the mess afterwards looked pretty impressive 
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Lol thats funny Muz, over here they use tracked vehicles like Nodwells and Foremost with digger derricks and man lifts stuck to them I've seen one or two with backhoes and little dozer blades attached but a lot of the time if it's major work they just wait for winter and for the ground to freeze. Ian the Canadian Army bought a number of those highway speed backhoes, from the looks of it they just use off-the-shelf components like the backhoe is from Case and the engine is a Cummins. Just to bad they can't make a wheeled excavator that can go that fast. lol
http://www.casr.ca/101-army-engineer-mpev.htm
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I found a vid of one of them equiped for doing pole work on their site.. its quite impressive
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Pretty versatile machine Muz especially when he used that picker to hold the pole while he backfilled with the backhoe part, crews here would likely break the thing whenever they had the chance as it's rate of production would be to high. lol
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Yeah ... here they just drive them into unfeasable bogs to get the same resultOriginally posted by 245dlc View PostPretty versatile machine Muz especially when he used that picker to hold the pole while he backfilled with the backhoe part, crews here would likely break the thing whenever they had the chance as it's rate of production would be to high. lol
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Originally posted by ianoz View Post
No, this is a backhoe www.jcb.com/hmee
http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/...s-backhoe.html
Almost a 1000 built for the US Army, 50 for the UK and handfuls for a few others.
JCB beat the Canadians and Australians in the tender process so there's a reason that thing on eBay is barely used, it's barely a backhoe.
nothing that's 18t is going to be great in a bog though.
oh and it works http://www.army.mil/article/23961/
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These Huddig backhoes are quite impressive with that grab on the back of the bucket it handles telephone poles like they're hockey sticks. Oh and with the outriggers up in the air!
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