Hawk representing the uk in Malaga - Finnings operator challenge
The Hawk Group are proud to announce that Nigel Prichard who has worked for the Hawk Group for 19 years initially as an operator and more recently as a CPCS trainer for Safety and Training our construction training division, has been selected to compete in the Caterpillar Operator Challenge in Malaga starting on the 1st November.
The Hawk Group are proud to announce that Nigel Prichard who has worked for the Hawk Group for 19 years initially as an operator and more recently as a CPCS trainer for Safety and Training our construction training division, has been selected to compete in the Caterpillar Operator Challenge in Malaga starting on the 1st November.
To make it to the final Nigel took part in Finning’s UK final of the Caterpillar Operator Challenge, held at Caterpillar’s new visitor centre, at its Discord factory in Leicester
In total there were four tasks detailed below
· 302.5C Mini Hydraulic Excavator. Operators had to load a bucket attached to a TH220B telehandler in the fastest time possible without spillage, touching the telehandler bucket, touching the sides of the trench or moving the machine itself. Once the telehandler bucket was full and the excavator back to its starting position, the clock was stopped.
· 725 Articulated Dump Truck (ADT). Operators we asked to negotiate the ADT around a custom-built course including cones, a wheel loader, an excavator and to dump a load before returning to the start/finish line.
· 908H Compact Wheel Loader. This task involved maneuvering the wheel loader around a tight track with a pallet on the machine forks. On the pallet were a couple of cones with a ball on top of each one.
· 305C CR Mini Hydraulic Excavator. The 305C CR was fitted with a hydraulic kerb grab. Operators were challenged with using the grab to pick up the kerb stones and to place them into a neat line. For every 1cm the stones were out of line, operators would pick up a 10 second penalty.
Nigel was top operator in the dumptruck category and good performances on the other machines ensured that he made it though to the final in Spain.
In Malaga Nigel will be competing on a range of equipment from mini excavators to 100 tonne wheel leaders, with operators from throughout Europe the Middle East and the CIS.
Thursday, 30 October 2008
