Podcasts


Swedish Black Beauty
After his family and snowmobiling Jimmy Väisänen’s biggest passion is operating heavy equipment, specifically larger machinery. Growing up in Gothenburg, Sweden, Jimmy’s first operating experience was on a wheel loader in his mid teens. After finishing school in 2009 he searched though job listings for many of the mines in Sweden, eventually landing a job […]

New Liugong 95t Excavator
For contractors looking to add a 100-tonne class production excavator to their fleet, the list of manufacturers offering such a machine has just got a little longer. Liugong, a leader in China’s construction equipment industry, has recently added their 995F excavator into their European range with the first example coming into the well-known fleet of […]

Bringing in the heavy squad
South Wales based KJ Services are probably best known for the work they undertake stripping and refurbishing construction and mining equipment at their vast HQ in Rhymney. Formed in 1970 as a plant hire provider, the company has diversified into a variety of sectors including contract crushing. Until recently, the core of their own hire […]

World’s Largest Wheeled Loader
The P&H L-2350, a 2,300hp behemoth, has arrived in Europe. Premiered by LeTourneau Technologies at the 2000 MINExpo in Las Vegas, it has taken 20 years for the first L-2350 to come to Europe. One of two new P&H L-series wheeled loaders recently commissioned at the Swedish Aitik copper mine, the other is an equally […]