Last month a new PC2000-8 Excavator with face shovel was
purchased by Babcock International and then contracted out to work for Lafarge
at their Dunbar Quarry in Scotland. The PC2000-8, which when fully assembled
weighs over 200 tonnes. It was manufactured in Japan and shipped in kit form
from the Far East into Tyne Docks. This Komatsu PC2000-8 with face shovel is
the first to go to work in Europe. Whilst there are three other PC-2000
excavators currently operating in the UK, in other quarry sites in Scotland and
Wales.
Over a period of two days the Excavator was transported on a
convoy of ten semi low loader and flat trailers. The largest part of the
machinery was the main body of the Excavator which weighed in at 31 tonnes and
was 3.4 metres wide. The transport was organised by WWL ALS who are based in
Hull and it also included Marubeni-Komatsu's own HGV as well as help from
Metcalfe Farms Haulage.