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Big Earthmovers  
VHS Video or DVD, PAL format
 
 
Released 2003
 
 
approx 70 minutes
 
Price £15.95 including VAT
Price £15.95 including VAT
  
 
ISBN 1-903366-54-2
ISBN 1-903366-74-7
 

This programme features some of the larger earth-moving equipment working on major projects in Britain. It includes excavators up to 85 tonnes; crawler tractors up to D9; articulated dump trucks from Bell, Caterpillar and Volvo; rigid dump trucks from Euclid; scrapers, including the Cat 637G; loaders, compactors and graders.
The programme has been made with the full co-operation of CA Blackwell (Contracts) Ltd whose contracts at Heathrow Airport Terminal 5, the re-development of the Corby iron ore extraction site and the White Horse chalk quarry require a wide range of machines for a variety of tasks. The programme describes why the company uses particular machines and shows the equipment at work in this exciting and specialised world of large-scale earthmoving.

 
Big Earthmovers
 
  At Terminal 5, Heathrow Airport: a Bell B40D articulated dump truck being loaded with clay from a stockpile.
A dual-engined 637G Cat scraper being given a hand by a D9L excavating a the Corby site.
 
  An 80-tonne Hitachi EX800 back-actor loading one of two Euclid R65Cs operated by Blackwells at the White Horse chalk quarry near Westbury, Wiltshire.