Machine operator, Mike Greenham, who has been employed by Wainwrights for the last 40-plus years
Volvo EC750E is chosen by
John Wainwright & Co Ltd A new seventy-five tonne excavator has been delivered to Wainwright’s Moons Hill Quarry in the Mendips Looking to replace a similar sized excavator specifically to clean
down exposed faces of blasted basalt in Moons Hill Quarry, Quarry Manager, Ben Dormer, started the process of finding a suitable replacement. “We carried out quite a lengthy and detailed review of the marketplace,” says Ben. “Overall we were looking for efficiencies in terms of production and fuel consumption, a long reach specification but still with a large enough bucket to load material into our haulers with a reduced number of passes. Equally important in our decision making process were the robust safety features specified on the machine along with a competitive, commercial package,” he adds.
Part of this process included a visit to the Volvo ‘Live it. Dig it.’event back in March by Assistant Quarry Manager, Alastair Gibson, followed by a visit to see the machine in action at a china clay pit in Cornwall. “Our first impressions of the EC750E were extremely positive,” says Ben. “We concluded that the machine
was a solid performer and very well balanced which is important for our operations here at Moons Hil.” Wainwright consequently settled on the Volvo EC750E from
SMT GB, specifying the 7.7m boom and 3.5m dipper arm offering a generous reach of 12m. The machine has been equipped with a 4.0m³ heavy-duty rock bucket and is able to dispatch the quarry’s forty-tonne haulers in one less pass than its predecessor. The machine has also been specified with an array of safety features. Most strikingly, the left hand catwalk has full height guardrails beside the boxing ring, skirting the top of the superstructure. Machine operator, Mike Greenham, has safe ingress and egress to the cab thanks to the addition of hydraulically operated access steps. Other features include a full fire-suppression system and fast refueling point which can be accessed from ground level.
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