Lucky seven for a&v squires... and happy 10th birthday to utility dealer – Rickmar
The voice sent Dan Gilkes along to report Earthmoving specialist contractor
A&V Squires
has added seven Volvo BL71B backhoe loaders to its fleet, all equipped with a powered backhoe sideshift supplied by local dealer Rickmar Plant Sales. The machines use a hydraulic ram fitted behind the backhoe
mounting, to move the kingpost
from one side of the machine to the other, reducing stress on
the frame and allowing operators to relocate the backhoe without having to dig the bucket into the surrounding ground.
THE VOICE PAGE 40
“The BL71s are a very good piece of kit, the powerslide works very well, there is loads of power and we have had no reliability problems,” says Managing Director Rob Squires. “They are also as fuel efficient as the JCBs that we had before, which was a surprise as they are much more powerful.”
Squires is a big user of Volvo equipment, 35 of the machines in its growing 50-strong fleet come from Volvo and the company invested more than £2 million in 2012 on additional excavators and backhoes. “We were at a size that I wanted to be at two years ago, but we keep on growing,” says Mr Squires. “We’ve had no option as we keep being asked to supply machinery. Over the last two years the jobs have got bigger and we end up putting more machines on site.”
This is partly due to a changing focus at Squires, as the family-owned company has moved into more specialised work in flood defence and
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52