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All the bells and whistles for new E-series Water Tankers
Local original equipment manufacturer, Bell Equipment, has expanded its range of water tankers and now offers eight tank sizes having introduced 16 000-litre and 50 000-litre offerings.
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Kobelco and Bell are a winning combination for J & B Timbers
Barend Steenkamp faced a somewhat unique problem in his felling, extraction and loading of pine thinnings operation in forests in the west of Eswatini. His contract called for full tree-lengths, up to fifteen metres long, to be loaded onto specialised stinger-steer truck-trailer combinations, but there was not enough space in the narrow roads between forest compartments to do this safely.
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Roseleigh Estates achieves in-trailer compaction with CanePro
The old saying that time is money rings very true for a KwaZulu-Natal sugarcane grower as a new cane loader drastically cuts loading time while maximising the usable space in a cane trailer.
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Procrete thrilled with combination of JCB brand and Bell support
After Jonathan Sussman had completed his BCom degree in Management, he found the prospect of merely being a manager of anything, rather boring. This is when he turned to the craft in which both his grandfather, John Sussman, and father, Nathan Sussman, had excelled, which is building.
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Kobelco SK220XD-10 has most frugal fuel in Henra excavator fleet
After receiving a call from André Rall in Upington regarding the fuel consumption of the new Kobelco Excavator on site, Gerrie Matthee was puzzled. There had to be a mistake. The figure he received from André couldn’t be correct as it was far lower than the average his company’s five other similarly weighted excavators returned.
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New Kobelco and JCB machines benefit Martmol Trading
When Martin Molewa was a bank teller, he learnt to count money. Jump ahead a few years, by which time Martin was a borehole contractor, and while laying water pipes with his own hands he learnt about the value of money and what it could buy in terms of mechanised means to make the job easier and faster.
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Wheel Loader delivers versatility and productivity for GI Projects
Imagine a machine, albeit a small one, that could do the work of fifteen men and at the same time steadily speed up the process of constructing luxury homes in one of South Africa’s most sought-after towns. This is exactly what two brothers in a small, specialised construction company found when they bought a multi-purpose wheeled loader.
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JCB is a game changer for women’s brickmaking cooperative
The village of Mabitsi lies in a rural area in the Limpopo Province just north of Marble Hall and the area surrounding it is dotted with rocky hills, so typical of the northern bushveld area where one can imagine leopards keep watch from the outcrops. With many of its men working in the larger cities to the south, it’s an area which offers little economic growth with subsequent few employment opportunities; that is until a group of mothers decided to take matters into their own hands.
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