September 2025 Issue 257
Published Friday 8th August 2025
FIRST DRIVES: HYUNDAI HX360 & HX19E: Hands on with the latest Hyundai 36-tonne excavator and electric mini.
LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW: AARON DAVIS: In conversation with the safety & skills director of Flannery Plant Hire.
NEW PRODUCT: JOHN DEERE 622GP: One of the first JD motor graders to be put to work on UK forest roads.
TECHNOLOGY: ELECTRIC EXCAVATORS: Swedish contractor puts a heavyweight electric excavator to work.
CUSTOMISATION: HIDROMEK HMK230-5: Porteous Groundworks’ Hidropony, star of the recent Royal Cornwall Show.
ATTACHMENTS: ULRICH BUCKETS: Custom-designed high-tip bucket fitted to a new Develon wheel loader.
MATERIALS HANDLING: SENNEBOGEN 835G: One of two machines recycler Ashvin Metals recently added to its fleet.
SITE VISIT: ERKINA SOLAR FARM: The piling aspect of a huge solar farm project in County Tipperary.
OPERATOR FEEDBACK: JCB 145XR: Gary Brown and Daughters have just bought their first JCB excavator.
FLEET FOCUS: IONIC GROUNDWORKS: Groundworks firm decided to invest in high-spec Liebherr excavators.
SITE VISIT: FOUNDRY LEA: MJL Group team make best use of technology on a large housing project.
PROCESSING: SBM JAWMAX 450: Latest additions to the Skillings fleet is a pair of Austrian jaw crushers.
OPERATOR INTERVIEW: OSCAR MIRANDA: In conversation with a 21-year-old American operator of a motor scraper.
TRANSPORT: D-MAX ROAD-RAILER: An Isuzu 4x4 crew cab vehicle converted for road-rail plant operation.
And much, much more ...
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