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Honister - How to pull a JCB up a mountain

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Uploaded by on Nov 11, 2007

Mark Weir - Owner of Honister Slate Mine, Lake District, UK driving / draggind a JCB up a mountain. Its all at honister.com

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  • he certaintly had a taste for danger! took a lot of risks! a top bloke! sadly missed

  • That is one steep and high location on loose rock. Maybe 131paval would like to take his own machine there and try for himself without assistance. I am sure someone will have a gas axe handy to cut up the remains of 131pavel machine.

  • Rubbish, for a start, that 360 should have been able to pull or push itself up the slope; without the tow cable. The driver must have been inexperienced. I have been operating diggers for forty years, and I could have done that cable free and on my own, blindfolded.

  • Praying for family great man sadly missed

  • RIP Mark Wier

    Mark died in a copter crash yesterday 08 march 2011

  • Abosoulte ledgend R.I.P Mark

  • @John69Wolf the guy on the digger is Mark Wier, owner of honister slate quarries

  • y not just make a bench up the side ?

  • Great vid

    !

    The breaking strain of the steel cable must be considerable, but I too am puzzled as to why you did not drive it up the road? Only the dump truck that appeared to do the pulling had to get up there somehow?

    If the dump truck was pulling, was it going up a similar slope also?

    Incidentally, the guy who had to get in the cab as the tracks seemed to be digging into the slate-If he doesn't own the company or is a partner, then you are not paying him enough...

    Impressive.

  • And why?

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