bowser:
Goldfinger:
As the old national lottery slogan went…IT COULD BE YOU!!!.. One day!
We’re all ‘perfect’ on here, aren’t we?..
blimey are you drunk ? no one said they were perfect .
had a bad day have we ? …
Bad day? Bad week more like.
cieranc:
So which bit is the back-acter/back-hoe then?
I saw that picture and the first thought I had was Hiab or Hook Loader.
that terminology is usually applied to a 180 machine , ie jcb 3cx etc
although its the same as in it has a boom and dipper , it is mostly referred to as a back actor / back hoe
then you have the regional sayings for a 360, slew ,swing shovel ,trackhoe etc
cheers graham
Going to be closed till next weds 
thisisgrimsby.co.uk/A180-clo … story.html
It looks like a single track farm bridge thats been hit, the digger looks remarkably unscathed and still standing upright, but will have taken a couple of fair old clouts, the second one being when it landed on the deck 
Hiya …i was reading where a woman driver had swerved and hit the center barrier with a car
and then did a spin. the police made a mobile road block while she turned and drove away to
the hard shoulder, The barrier was inspected at a later date.no damage to report the bill was
just over £3k. The woman said she’d have risked driving off if she’d have known how much the
claim would have been.
In the write up it said the councils was charging thousand’s of pounds for oils spills after accidents
and repair damage to surfaces. That bridge will cost a few quid at that rate
John
It’s grim up north…
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JCB
JJ192:
The driver is suspended apparently and it was a hewdens low loader
Probably suspended from the dipper arm 
Muckaway:
selby newcomer:
A fella at work said it was a digger that hit it, it was on the back of a low loader, but the driver hadn’t put the bucket arm down properly.Ps I’m not sure if its called bucket arm, but it’s the bit that swings about
The boom or dipper. On a 360 excavator (old timers may call it a Hymac after the ancient defunct digger maker) the boom is the up and down part that comes out of the main machine beside the cab.The dipper arm is the bit that draws the bucket in toward the digger and pushes it back out. The bucket is tipped and crowded by the bucket ram. CatD4C will no doubt be more upto the correct description than me.
Station Bridge in Broadway was well known for digger and low loader combos hitting it, pre the bypass.
We always knew them as Hymac’s (the only 360 with a RHD cab?) and a Ford engine,good machine could load the old Thames Trader muck tipper quicker than a Drott!, any one remember them? (fuel tank & rear wings smashed by the tracks!!) 
Goldfinger:
bowser:
Goldfinger:
As the old national lottery slogan went…IT COULD BE YOU!!!.. One day!
We’re all ‘perfect’ on here, aren’t we?..
blimey are you drunk ? no one said they were perfect .
had a bad day have we ? …
Bad day? Bad week more like.
Don’t tell me, you were carrying a JCB on a low loader and…
The last Hymacs were dinosaurs in comparisson to Komatsu, JCB (remember the “Power Slide”? Why not just track that bit closer?) and Akermans. Still very common though, hiding on farms in a paint colour I call “vomit green with a dash of rust”)
I wonder if the low loader driver hadn’t folded the boom and dipper in toward the machine or had the arm resting on the buckets?
check this out…youtube.com/watch?feature=en … NcrJY&NR=1