18/02/2022 | Safety

Leading UK housebuilder Countryside has made a big safety statement to the housebuilding sector by adopting the latest artificial intelligence driven safety solution for mobile plant with Safety Shield.

18/02/2022 | Safety

Testing mobile plant technology - How does the Safety Shield artificial intelligence-driven mobile plant collision avoidance system with real-time video capture work on a JCB telehandler?

15/02/2022 | Productivity

No more shaking around with this 'beast' of an innovation from Makita UK the new DC powered HR006G Cordless Rotary Hammer.

14/02/2022 | Productivity

Peter Haddock shines a light on innovation with Trime UK and Mark Taylor on the Executive Hire Show Innovation Trail.

14/02/2022 | Productivity

Peter Haddock talks to Andy Miles about the innovative new Husqvarna K1 PACE battery powered cutter. It comes with two batteries in the box with a fan-assisted charger which will power up a battery in around 45 minutes.

14/02/2022 | Productivity

Removing virus particles from the air with the HEYLO Air Purifier, a shortlisted Executive Hire Show Innovation Trail product.

14/02/2022 | Productivity

Peter Haddock talks to product expert and sales manager, Roberto Capone about the machine and its new controls that make it much easier to manoeuvre around a site and in particular through tight spaces.

14/02/2022 | Productivity

Peter Haddock talks to expert Paul Webster about the Net Zero product’s use and how it works with solar power and can also hybridise generators, reducing the size of generators needed onsite, saving more carbon.

12/02/2022 | Productivity

The STRUTSLAYR is a really innovative battery-powered tool with a strut sheer head. It comes with two battery options and its own built-in clamp.

12/02/2022 | Productivity

The Postpuller - Designed for the job, no electricity, no diesel and no packaging required. Just pump it up, pull it out and wheel it away in less than a minute. It's a very robust and cleverly engineered product from Post Pullers UK Ltd.

10/02/2022 | Productivity

Dragon Equipment Ltd launches its new CR300H Hybrid Concrete Crusher on the Innovation Trail at the Executive Hire Show

09/02/2022 | Productivity

Peter Haddock meets up with Paul Mabey on the JCB stand to find out all about its electric range, which is part of the Executive Hire Show Innovation Trail.

09/02/2022 | Productivity

On the Executive Hire Show innovation trail Peter Haddock talks with MHM Group about the introduction of its innovative new Eco ‘Streetlite’ lighting tower

04/02/2022 | Productivity

In a UK first Wooldridge Group purchases a new JCB 245XR fitting the machine with an Engcon tiltrotator & Leica Geosystems 3D machine control and operator Aide is very impressed.

31/01/2022 | Productivity

At the Highways UK event in 2021, Peter Haddock talked to supply chain manager Faye Hodgkinson of Tier 1 contractor Morgan Sindall and strategic manager Chris Matthew of Flannery Plant Hire about social value and carbon reduction.

28/01/2022 | Productivity

Peter Haddock talks to industry leader Neil Williams of Leica Geosystems part of Hexagon, about how the business is working with suppliers on a global and local scale to improve safety, productivity and efficiency, whilst supporting operators in the cab.

19/01/2022 | Productivity

How can the industry achieve Net Zero, cut carbon, improve efficiency and reduce fuel costs?

19/01/2022 | Productivity

Peter Haddock talks to Catplant MD Ronnie Harrod onsite with the impressive new Cat 395. We talk about why he continues to invest in Caterpillar equipment with dealer Finning UK & Ireland to support the tasks required to run the quarry, landfill and waste recovery site near Doncaster.

18/01/2022 | Environmental

As HS2 prepares for its biggest earthworks year to date and the house building boom continues at a pace, the one challenge above all others that faces the plant sector and particularly those that provide operated plant, like Flannery Plant Hire, is tackling the skills shortage.

17/01/2022 | Productivity

Surrey-based Wooldridge Group has recently taken delivery of four new JCB 245 XR reduced tailswing machines as part of its ongoing fleet renewal programme. Founded in 1975, the group owns both demolition and groundworks businesses. It's the groundworks team that had added the new machines, as I discovered when I visited one onsite at a prestigious house building site near High Wycombe for Berkley Homes.

14/01/2022 | Productivity

The dividing trench between UK earthworks PLC and the rest of the construction industry is set to be filled in by three simple words' Design for Machines'. They may be simple words, but they are fundamental to a change in approach and mindset that is accelerating through the sector, from large customers like National Highways and HS2 to Tier 1 contractors like Skanska.

14/01/2022 | Environmental

In just a six-week period from its auction on the 29th of March to the last auction on 10th of May 2023, Ritchie Bros. UK has seen a softening of used equipment selling prices at its Maltby auction, with some like-for-like equipment dropping by 15%.

10/01/2022 | Productivity

Peter Haddock visited RJC Plant Hire, where he met Depot Manager Kai Freeman to talk about how its two JCB 525-60E's have been performing.

13/12/2021 | Productivity

Peter Haddock talks to product expert, and Rokbak Regional Sales Manager for EMEA, Kenny Price, about the new RA30 and RA40 recently launched ADT's.

10/12/2021 | Productivity

Lucas Haddock visits the Caterpillar Malaga Development and Training centre talking a tour with Senior Operator Trainer Siggy.