The new Volvo EW140D and EC220D are the latest models to join David Smith Contractors’ fleet
and overall performance we’ve found with the machines.”
The latest models to join the fleet herald new ventures that David Smith Contractors are entering into such as demolition contracts, crushing and quarrying contracts, piling and major multi million pound groundworks con- tracts. “Moving into these areas and to be able to offer our client base a
complete package of services is vital for the long term,” said David Smith. “And to carry out the work in a cost effective manner means increasing the size of the machines and their capacities in terms of lifting and hydraulic capacity to suit the applications. In doing so we’ve become a one stop solution for our clients.”
For instance the new EW140D delivered to David Smith Con- tractors features Volvo’s two piece boom arrangement and is the very first Volvo excavator to be supplied complete with a factory fitted Steelwrist tiltrotator and a Cambus derived Xcontrol G2 operating system. This combination offers a very versatile and specialised machine giving a high degree of manoeuvrability for a whole range of applications. This is just one example but it follows an approach David Smith has taken in diversifying his business for some time as he evolves his business. Last year for example he modified a new Volvo EC240C to accept a bespoke piling rig which includes the fitting of an Indexator rototilt hitch and a hydraulically driven sheet piling head of the company’s own design and manufacture. The two tonne head runs off the EC240C’s hammer shear circuit requiring up to 230 litres per minute in high mode and can handle sheet pile sections up to 14
metres in length at a reach of 7 metres. Another initiative has been to equip half his fleet of 30, predominantly branded Volvo excavators with GPS for bulk earthmoving, profiling, digging foundations and hard landscaping jobs.
David Smith Contractors provides a complete range of Civil Engineering Services from demolition and earth moving to petro- chemical site maintenance and road construction. Most recently the company has won prestigious contracts from leading super- market chains for stores built in Inverness and Nairn, the runway extension at Aberdeen airport and the new prison at Peterhead. The company operates from Crimond near Fraserburgh and provides a comprehensive service throughout Scotland.
The EW140D is the first Volvo to be supplied with factory fitted Steelwrist tiltrotator
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