by Richard Cosgrove | Tue 08 Oct 2019
Ashcourt add more Volvos
The Hull-based Ashcourt Group has added more Volvo excavators and loading shovels to its plant fleet, together with a P6870C wheeled paver that will go to work for the Group’s civils and highways divisions.
The excavators in question will go to work on a range of activities undertaken by the Group’s civil engineering division. These include a sixteen tonne ECR145E and the larger forty tonne ECR355E, both of which are reduced swing machines. Additionally, four Volvo compact excavators have joined the fleet in the guise of an EC15E, an ECR25D, ECR58D and an ECR88D, following on from SMT GB’s Live It Dig It event that took place at Ashcourt’s Partridge Hall Quarry back in May. Joining the Ashcourt stable for the first time comes a Volvo P6870C paver. Replacing two competitor models, the new Volvo P6870C will be deployed in the Group’s Highways division.
Two new loading shovels have also been included in this recent package of machines. A Volvo L120H has replaced an older variant at the company’s Foster street recycling facility, and the larger twenty five tonne L150H has been purchased for a new contract on Hull docks.