Earth Movers in Scotland

Hardback

As Scottish Correspondent for
Earthmovers Magazine, David Wylie has
enjoyed privileged access to the mines,
quarries, road projects and forestry
sites across Scotland. On his visits he
has seen some of the biggest and
arguably the best, earthmoving machinery
in the world, in action.

Earthmovers in Scotland brings together
32 of David’s reports from these visits
to tell the story of the highly skilled,
experienced owners, drivers and managers
that work with earthmoving equipment and
explains why they select, maintain and
operate these machines. The book
features some of the largest earthmovers
in the UK, such as Caterpillar’s D11R
bulldozer, Liebherr’s massive 320 tonne
R9350s and the mighty 520 tonne Q&K
RH200 at Banks Mining Shotton surface
mine in Northumberland, a short hop over
the Scottish border. It also takes a
look at a 1.5 tonne mini digger, special
trailers that can lift and transport
1800 tonne bridges into position, and
covers Demag’s H485 record breaking
mining shovel amongst others.

Taking pride of place in the book are
over 400 stunning photographs, many of
which have not been seen before and many
of which feature machines that were the
first of their kind. Each high quality
photo has been carefully composed to
capture each machine in all its power
and brilliance with the spectacular
Scottish scenery as a backdrop and 80 of
the most important and detailed images
are presented as double pages to help
you get close to the action.

This beautiful book sets out to provide
its owner with a comprehensive look at
Scottish earthmovers scene, and will be
of interest to enthusiasts, owners,
drivers and site managers worldwide.

David Wylie is a professional Engineer
and Photojournalist. David is a regular
contributor to Earthmovers magazine and
covers interesting machines, sites and
people all over Scotland, as well as the
occasional reports on mining machine
factories and tradeshows in Europe.
David has received many commissions from
the major earthmoving manufacturers to
supply stunning images and video work
for their in-house magazines,
advertisements, online media and machine
brochures.

• 438 Pages
• Mainly Colour Photographs Throughout
• Hardback
• 230 mm x 293 mm