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Don from South Africa is pictured here with one of his Crab Mini Excavators that he builds

This Crab has been used to build a dam in South Africa. If you want to find out more about this machine see http://www.mini-excavator.co.za/

Peter emailed these great pictures taken in 1964 of him driving what he recalled was a Whitlock digger. Julian has kindly confirmed that it is a Whitlock DozaLoader fitted with a Shawnee Scout excavator made under licence by Steelfab at Cardiff

The Whitlock had a distinctive high loader tower with a cross member in the line of the driver's sight.

Wayne emailed these interesting pictures of the Yeti track system. It was built in 1984 by 4X4 Developments Ltd, Dento, Northampton. The designer was Peter Sullivan. (Source: http://www.unusuallocomotion.com/ accessed 19/02/13)

It was very effective but looked rather cumbersome. The tracks could be locked so that the vehicle could climb out on the points of each triangle if the tracks lost adhesion!.

Here's the same Yeti system fitted to what looks to me like a Winget 2S dumper.