Fiddes Plant and Crane Training

Bit of west coast island hopping this week between Mull and Tanera mor,picked a cracking week,Marine knuckle boom cranes,ATVs,Rear tipping dumpers and telehandlers!Not to mention the views!!

Cracking day up in Thurso for compact cranes,working alongside CTS Highland Plant Training for SSE,not s categorie that comes up often but we had a good day.It was great seeing Alistair Rattray become the pupil,i thoroughly enjoyed putting him through his paces!!!

Sunday Slingers!Slinger/signaller today in an overcast Inverness(hi-ab courtesy of the boys Highland Lift & Shift )Always enjoyable as the paperwork is done at V8 cafe over a bacon roll!!

And we're off,first ADT tests done!!

Extremley proud and pleased to announce the adding of 2 new categories to my Instructor card today,we can now deliver testing and traing on Rear tipping dumper and all terrain vehicles.You asked for it,we went out and got it!!😁

Saturday testing,good operator,good weather,already hit the gym, lifes good!!

Test day yesterday and it was all going great until a sensor went on the machine,luckily we hired from Morris leslie and after a quick phone call the fitter arrived within 30 mins,changed over the sensor and we were back in action!3 passes and piece of mind that i can rely on my hiring companies to sort out breakdowns fast!Thanks to Alasdair Bowen and his team for being so prompt,and well done to the 3 candidates who smashed it out of the park this week!Love it when learners are keen to learn and genuinley seem to enjoy the course!!

Telehandlers this week in the sanctuary of our yard,here we are taking the machine to its limits to show the center of gravity changing when unloading!

Diffrent day,diffrent side of Scotland!!Isle of Mull today for knuckleboom cranes!!

Edinburgh today for Roto-telehandler,some impressive driving from the operator using rotating forks to side load a scaffold!!

Another late shift at Stoddart Crane Hire Ltd ,we got it done just before the sun went down!A succesfull night none the less!!

Evening slinger tests for Stoddart crane hire,nice varied lifts for a succesfull test!

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A very wet Saturday morning in Inverness for Slinger/signaller,here we have Donnie going through the motions on the way to a solid pass!

Cracking day in Dingwall doing lifting ops,hoping this weather holds out as its up to Skye tmrw!

Great start to the day today meeting new and old friends at the Highland Construction Training Group AGM,it gave me a wider perspective of what is happening in our area and will give me a chance to give something back so that our industry continues to thrive in our area!

Finishing a busy week with a trip to Mull!

Booked a day off today to service the most important part of my buisness!Filters,oil,grease,tyres and as shes such a good girl i treated her to some new wheel trims!!Thanks to Darren Fraser for putting up with my patter today and getting it done!

Early morning ferry to Mull for knuckleboom crane tests,looks like rain!!!🙈

Sunday morning testing on the 360,nice of the customer to say how much they apreciatte getting tested on a Sunday so it doesnt cost a days wage on top of the test!

Great week so far,crane supervisors,dumpers,rollers,plant marshall,and we still have NVQs and 360s to do later this week!!

Pre-use checks for Marine knuckleboom crane,always and everytime!!

Afternoon off with tbe little 'uns!!!

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First test of the year a pass on the roto-telehandler!

First one of the year!Roto-telehandler on a cold East coast,Jamie is seen here "walking the dog" around a series of obstacles at low height.