Scottish contractor puts faith in Doosan brand.
Edinburgh-based Daltons Demolitions Limited has purchased a new full demolition specification Doosan DX300LC-3 30 tonne crawler excavator from Scotia Plant Ltd, the Authorised Doosan and Bobcat Dealer for the central belt of Scotland.
The new Stage IIIB compliant DX300LC-3 excavator has been supplied with a host of safety and demolition features, including a cab guard, heavy duty undercarriage, underguarding, side protection, additional hydraulic circuits, safety handrails, vandal guards and a warning beacon. The new excavator package also included a new Geith quick hitch and a new Doosan heavy duty bucket.
Tony Mill-Irving, Contracts Manager at Daltons, who was responsible for specifying the new excavator, working closely with David Nicholson, Sales Manager at Scotia Plant, said: “We purchased the new DX300LC-3 excavator, based on the performance of the Doosan DX300LC model it has replaced. Like the Doosan DL300 wheel loader in our fleet, we have been very happy with the DX300LC machine which we ran for 4-5 years – the feedback from our operators was very good, scoring highly on comfort and power to weight ratio. Since its arrival the new Stage IIIB machine has more than met expectations.”
The first project for the new DX300LC-3 model was on a demolition contract at Dunfermline, which involved demolition of a steel frame building, which had previously seen life as a supermarket distribution centre and before that, as a whisky bottling plant. The existing buildings have been demolished by Daltons to make way for a new office and manufacturing facility for a leading oil industry company.
Daltons started the 12 week contract using the older DX300LC machine which was replaced two-thirds of the way through by the new DX300LC-3 excavator. The additional hydraulic circuits on the new DX300LC-3 excavator are perfect for use with shears, pulverisers, grabs and the other attachments Daltons uses in the demolition process.
