Dear All
Just joined as a member, been looking at the site for ages. I've got quite a few machines that I'm looking for new homes for, where's the best place to sell please ?
Here's a brief history and some picture, I have more if someone wants to see them:
My father started the firm not long after he had finished his national service in the REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) in the army he had worked on various bits of kit including tanks ect. He borrowed the money, from a farmer he had worked for, to buy a D4 and started working. He built the firm up over the years until in the late eighties when had two teams of TS14s four in each two D8Ks various other D8s including a cable blade 14a various towed scrapers, a D6D two 22RBs with skimmers, face shovel, dragline and crane rigs, a 977K and various other bits of kit that came and went along the way.
We carried out various works motorway construction, reservoirs and lakes, clay stockpiling in brick works, cliff trims on the chalk cliffs near Seaford ballast extraction ect. ect. Sadly, my father passed away last year and now I am trying to organize things for my mother and sisters. Now to the photos I have listed:
D7E You will see that this tractor was the ideal tool for various jobs with a hydraulic and when teamed with the Birtley box I have also shown was perfectly matched, I drove this tractor a lot and thoroughly enjoyed it. This also contains the engine that Caterpillars spent a great deal of money developing, back in the day, to get a few more horsepower out of.
D8K This machine came to us from Wimpeys and was teamed with the 463 scraper that is also photo’d to carry out clay stock pilling and general other duties and was used to great effect on a couple of golf courses we built. Interestingly it featured in the David Bowie video for the song Ashes to Ashes which was filmed on a bypass we built for Hastings in 1976.
D6D this machine had an angle blade and we used to use it for trimming batters formation cut and various other smallish jobs it was adapted to a tilt blade by Dad so that it could do more sculptural work on the golf courses like bunker, tee and green construction.Lastly, I have shown some rather unusual boxes manufactured by Blaw Knox which may also be of interest.
If anyone requires more information, please get in touch. Richard Benge
