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VIBRATIONS Eoghan Daly visits a flood relief project in Cork City, where a new compact radius Hyundai HX235A excavator equipped with a Movax piling attachment is hard at work arlier this year, main contractor McGinty & O’Shea completed the Douglas section of Cork City’s new flood defence network and was subsequently awarded the main works contract for the adjacent Togher section. Due to be completed in September next year, the project includes the installation of a 675m-long culvert, the construction of a flood defence wall, together
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with hard and soft landscaping works. Founded in 1985, Cork-based McGinty & O’Shea is well known for delivering flood relief schemes, urban streetscape renewal projects, alongside sewerage and water infrastructure works. The Togher flood defence project includes a significant requirement to install sheet piles, which would normally be subbed out to a specialist contractor. However, McGinty & O’Shea decided to explore the option of performing this work in house. They duly acquired a 25-tonne
Above and below: A latest-spec Hyundai HX235A LCR has joined an incredibly reliable, 2013-built 235LCR-9 excavator on the McGinty & O’Shea fleet.
compact radius Hyundai HX235A LCR excavator and equipped it with a Movax SG45V vibrating pile driver attachment.
NEW EXCAVATOR When it came to choosing a new excavator for this task, a number of alternatives were looked at, including using a 30-tonne conventional swing machine. However, as an extremely reliable Hyundai 235LCR-9 had been on the fleet since 2013, together with a more recent Hyundai HX140W wheeled excavator, which has clocked up over 4800 hours mainly on hammer work, there was little doubt that it would be another Hyundai.
“SINCE GETTING THE FIRST HYUNDAI IT HAS WORKED VERY WELL FOR US AND WE HAVEN’T HAD TO PUT A SPANNER TO IT” NOVEMBER 2021
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