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Plant & Demolition man strikes out on his own with Komatsu PC290-8

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Austin’s father bought an old JCB 806 hydraulic excavator and a Thwaites 2 ton dumper to do all the demolition and groundwork’s for the new family home, and it was in this classic JCB machine that Austin fine tuned his operating skills from a young age. It was at this time that Austin caught the digger bug!

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Fukushima: The Disaster That Won’t Go Away

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We’ll probably never know how many of them died hideously within days from radiation poisoning, or slowly over the years from radiation-induced cancer. Level 7 is as bad as it gets. So we’ve built up smoldering clumps of the stuff all over the world, atom bomb-ready waste with a radioactive half-life of 50,000 years.