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VtsTom
11th August 2009, 16:19
My new toy for work:

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j160/vtstom/liebherr550.jpg

Its a Liebherr 550 2by2 so it pivots just under the cab. Had 40mph out it today, not bad for something that weighs 21400kg unloaded.

Cant see shit behind you though. Theres a reversing camera but its pants. Any one stupid enough to walk behind one of these buggers deserves to get run over anyway.

Only got it to move loose paper about it. Its fun crawling up a 20foot pile indoors, back end bottoms out and you cant actualy go any higher.

Work doesnt seem so bad afterall :D its like being 5 all over again
Bickerton
11th August 2009, 16:23
Enjoy lol
Vinny_VSX
11th August 2009, 16:28
Now that looks like good fun. What is it that you do Tom?
Liam_LFC_VTR
11th August 2009, 16:29
Bet thats a change from the saxo LOL :D
Bickerton
11th August 2009, 16:34
Now that looks like good fun. What is it that you do Tom?

Drives a digger in a place that deals with paper? ;)
smiith
11th August 2009, 16:36
Im scared of diggers. Especialy ones with arms on the back.
VtsTom
11th August 2009, 20:15
Now that looks like good fun. What is it that you do Tom?

Work at a paper mill, basicaly we make nice new paper from old skanky re-cycled paper. I sometimes get to shovel the old paper into big piles ready to use. Usualy on a clamp truck or in the office sorting transport with German drivers, fun times.
L33h
11th August 2009, 20:45
haha go wild in it
potatopete
11th August 2009, 21:26
What size engine do they have? And what sort of power?
Matt_West_Mids
11th August 2009, 21:40
Needs lowering.
Paul
11th August 2009, 21:44
Always wondered how people put petrol in these... Do they drive them off work premises and to the local petrol station? Or buy hundreds of petrol cans, fill them all up at local petrol station, then take them to the digger and pour them in the digger?
furiomike
11th August 2009, 21:45
Im scared of diggers. Especialy ones with arms on the back.
ha, scared for life.

i don't think they weigh 21400kg btw, looks about half that.
saxo1992
11th August 2009, 21:47
Always wondered how people put petrol in these... Do they drive them off work premises and to the local petrol station? Or buy hundreds of petrol cans, fill them all up at local petrol station, then take them to the digger and pour them in the digger?

Well there almost all diesel! And generaly speaking if its on private land they will have a holding tank and be able to burn red taxfree diesel at if im correct atm 65p a litre.
Stissy
11th August 2009, 21:55
Well there almost all diesel! And generaly speaking if its on private land they will have a holding tank and be able to burn red taxfree diesel at if im correct atm 65p a litre.

i think it is mate