Our DVDs feature some of the world’s largest earthmovers: hydraulic excavators, draglines, diesel rope shovels, bucketwheel excavators and massive haul trucks, including equipment from Caterpillar, P&H, Liebherr, Bucyrus-Erie, Hitachi, JCB and Komatsu. Some ultra high-reach demolition machines at work include conversions by Kocurek and Rusch based on Cat, Hitachi and Liebherr excavators. Scrap shears from Verachtert, Genesis and Montovanibenne.
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Big Earthmovers (DVD)
Ref: 805D
This programme features some of the larger earth-moving equipment working on major projects in Britain...
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Big Plant: excavators and cranes in action (DVD) - Geoff Lewis
Ref: 266D
In 1998 Geoff Lewis began recording big plant at sites in Wales and elsewhere. This compilation on five disks offers more than nine hours’ viewing. This constitutes a unique view of draglines, grab cranes, dozers, excavators, scrapers, dump trucks, face shovels and graders at work during the past decade.
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Britain’s Massive Miners Part 1 (DVD) : Steven Vale
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Komatsu and Hitachi star in the first of Steven Vale’s films about the hydraulic excavators to be found at work in Britain’s surface coal mines.
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Britain’s Massive Miners Part 2 (DVD) : Steven Vale
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A Northumberland surface coal mine is the setting for the hydraulic excavator which is currently the biggest in Britain and the biggest Terex model in Europe – the Terex O&K RH 200. It works with advanced noise- and dust-suppression technology to load nearly 50 tonnes at a time with a 26 cubic metre bucket.
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Britain’s Massive Miners - two-DVD set offer (DVD)
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Special offer: the two Britain’s Massive Miners DVDs for £29.95
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Demolition Giants (DVD) - Steven Vale
Ref: 201D
The technology of demolition has changed beyond all recognition over the past two decades. The dust-raising ball and chain have gone, replaced by telescopic high-reach extensions to tracked machinery. In this programme you can see some of the world’s tallest demolition machines at work in Holland and the UK.
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Extreme Earthmovers at Work (DVD) - Eric Orlemann and Keith Haddock
Ref: 315D
Extreme Earthmovers at Work is a compilation of film recorded by Eric Orlemann in 2005-8 at surface mines in the United States. Keith Haddock has written the script. He has focused on some of the largest and most impressive machines of their classes.
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JCBs at Work (DVD) - Jonathan Theobald
Ref: 816D
This programme looks at how some of the larger JCB machines are used on sites. Filmed with the co-operation of three major UK contractors, it takes in earthmoving for warehouse construction, landfill site work, road building and house construction....
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JCB’s Backhoe Loader: Workhorse for the World (DVD) - Tim Starkey-Smith
Ref: 872D
On all sorts of construction sites, in road-building, on farms and estates, everywhere you go all over the world you’ll see a JCB backhoe loader at work. The principles of the machine were laid down in the 1950s, yet successive developments have kept it at the forefront of its market.
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Know Your Diggers (Paperback) - Paul Argent
Ref: 656B
This selection is designed to satisfy the curiosity of people becoming interested in the plant and machinery they see as they travel around the UK. Paul Argent’s selection includes diggers, excavators, backhoes, rollers, cranes, demolition machines, loaders, dumpers and a road planer.
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Manapouri The Toughest Tunnel (DVD) - NHNZ and TVNZ
Ref: 301D
New Zealand’s remote Doubtful Sound, in the south-west of the South Island, is a stunning area of tranquil lakes, plunging fjords and dense rainforests fed by 200 inches of rain a year.
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Massive Backhoe Dredgers (DVD) - Steven Vale
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Steven Vale shows some of the world’s largest and most powerful hydraulic backhoe dredgers at work on their pontoons. These enormous machines – often adapted mining excavators – serve the needs of ports, deepening their seaways and building new facilities to handle ever-larger cargo vessels.
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Massive Earthmoving Machines Part 1: Belle Ayr and Beener Coal (DVD) - Keith Haddock
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Two contrasting open-cast coalmines in America use some of the largest machines of their kinds to be found anywhere.
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Massive Earthmoving Machines Part 2: Black thunder and Garzweiler (DVD) - Keith Haddock
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There are the two absolutely exceptional pieces of machinery in this programme recorded at open-cast coalmines in Wyoming and Germany - Black thunder and Garzweiler
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Massive Earthmoving Machines Part 3: Aitik copper mine, Sweden (DVD) - Steven Vale
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The third in Old Pond's 'Massive Earthmovers' series deals with just one mine - but what an exceptional mine it is. Boliden's Aitik copper mine, north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden, is a hole 3 kilometres long, 1 kilometre wide and 400m deep.
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Massive Earthmoving Machines Part 4: mountain movers (DVD) - Steven Vale
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The large, specialised machines in this programme have one task: to move mountains. In the Fabero coal mine, northern Spain, you can see a 520-tonne Hitachi EX5500 hydraulic excavator making light work of overburden. This beast feeds 200-tonne capacity Cat 789C trucks in just three or four passes. Nearby, a Komatsu D475A dozer the biggest in Europe is ripping through rock.
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Massive Earthmoving Machines four-DVD set offer.
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Special offer: all four Massive Earthmoving DVDs for £54.95
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Massive Wheeled Loaders Part One: Caterpillar - Liebherr - Volvo (DVD) - Steven Vale
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This is Part One of a two-DVD set in which Steven Vale shows examples of wheeled loaders working in surface mines and quarries in Europe and the UK. He focuses in particular on the larger, more impressive models.
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Massive Wheeled Loaders Part Two: Hitachi - Komatsu - LeTourneau (DVD) - Steven Vale
Ref: 300D
This is Part Two of a two-DVD set in which Steven Vale shows examples of wheeled loaders working in surface mines and quarries in Europe and the UK. He focuses in particular on the larger, more impressive models.
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Massive Wheeled Loaders 2-DVD set (DVD) - Steven Vale
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Massive Wheeled Loaders 2-DVD set. £31.95 inc. VAT
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Opencast Images: An Informal Look at British Coal Opencast Sites 1986-1994 (Hardback) - Dave Wootton
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In the United Kingdom surface coal mining began in 1942 in response to a national shortage of deep-mined coal. By the 1980s, when Dave Wootton began touring sites and taking photographs, the industry was firmly established with major operations and very large machinery.
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Scrap Metal Giants (DVD) : Steven Vale
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Scrap metal is handled in bulk by some truly large and exciting machines. Steven Vale starts by taking us to a site at Liverpool Docks where each week 200-250 cars are processed for 85 per cent recycling.
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Walking with Giants: Europe’s Massive Earthmovers (Hardback) - Steven Vale
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Steven Vale looks at massive earthmoving machines in fourteen European countries from Spain and Italy to Swedish and Finnish Lapland. He describes the regions in which the mining is set, provides information about the industries they serve and portrays some of the characters involved.
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