Diggers Hillhead Highlights (Part One)

Mon 02 Jul 2018

Diggers Hillhead Highlights (Part One)

Wall to wall sunshine and record temperatures made this year’s Hillhead Quarry and Mining Show the hottest ticket in town on the UK show circuit. Those who made the biennial pilgrimage to Tarmac’s Hillhead Quarry near Buxton were treated to a feast of new products and technology and left with beaming smiles if not a little weary from exploring the extensive showground in plus 30^otemperatures. This year’s event was the largest ever, 10% larger in fact according to the organisers, with 525 companies all taking space across the showground which covers an area of around 140,000m². Indoor space was also increased this year with the registration doubling in size to accommodate more exhibitors to the sell-out event. One of the highlights of Hillhead is the working demonstrations at the live quarry face where some of the larger kit are deployed to break, rip, and load rock and aggregate into a wide variety of processing machinery and equipment. Although focusing on the mining and aggregate industries the show is also a popular showcase for the global machinery industry to show off their latest construction machinery products.

Photo Credit: Eoghan Daly. The long awaited and much anticipated fully cabbed version of Wacker Neuson’s dual-view site dumper concept made its first public appearance in the UK at Hillhead. Available with payloads from six to nine tonnes, the dual-view is said to offer new standards of site safety and flexibility on site. Operators are able to change the seat and console position through 180 degrees offering the very best visibility in either direction.

Bobcat displayed examples of its new R Series mini excavator range including the E26 which features the company’s new patented cylinder-inside-boom (CIB) design. Tipping the scales 2,560kgs in its cabbed variant, power comes from the ever-popular Stage V emissions compliant Kubota 3-cylinder engine. For what is officially a conventional tail swing excavator the E26 has an extremely minimal tail overhang of just 70mm.

Doosan are celebrating 40 years since the launch of the manufacturers construction equipment range this year and presented a number of its latest products at the show including a new version of its 30-tonne capacity articulated dump truck the DA30.

Coupler and bucket manufacturer Hill Engineering chose Hillhead to showcase its new 2T TEFRA fully automatic hydraulic quick coupler which is designed for mini excavators from 1.4 to 2.5 tonnes. A keen selling point of the TEFRA product is that it only includes three moving parts.

A&Y Equipment are the recently appointed dealers for the German built Bergmann range of site dumpers. The company displayed both wheeled and tracked models including this 4010 tracked model which also features a swivel skip arrangement.

Tiltrotator’s are the must have attachment in the UK market at the moment and the increase in uptake in the last 12 months has been nothing short of phenomenal. Swedish manufacturer Engcon were once again displaying various examples from their range including the EC209 with EC-Oil for ease of changing hydraulic attachments and detachable gripper.

The company also demonstrated the system fitted to a JCB X220LC hydraulic excavator. Operating the machine on the demo plot were Digger Man Blog Facebook group members Scott Hastings and Owen Mays who shared time between them.

Following its debut appearance at ScotPlant and Intermat earlier this year, Hyundai displayed its new 13 tonne class compact radius offering the HX130LCR.

The HX130 LCR excavator is powered by a 73.6 hp (55 kW) Perkins 854F Tier 4 final / Stage IIIB compliant diesel engine. According to the manufacturer, when it comes to performance and productivity, the engine and hydraulic system of the HX130 LCR are said to be unbeatable. Its ‘Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF)’ equipped engine delivers optimum power and fuel efficiency, without the need for SCR. So, users do not have the hassle with AdBlue. Take a quick look around the Hyundai stand in my walk-around video.

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