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[NW87]

Mammoet yard in Puslinch, Ontario. They have a Toronto yard near Finch and 427 where most of the mobile cranes used Downtown are kept at the ready. This yard houses more mobile, crawler cranes and all the specialty lifting equipment as well as trucks and trailers.
Taken 25/09/14

Three draglines being used in an aggregate operation in Aberfoyle.

 

[Tim MacDonald]

Some from Airshow London 2025
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Stunning shots, Neil! Sadly, I didn't make it down there this year.

 

[Tim MacDonald]

Holland Marsh area, looking towards Lake Simcoe to the North.

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I could always smell the green onions this time of year when I'd be walking to the school bus stop many, many moons ago!

 

[NW87]

A Mammoet AC500-8 Crane being setup and readied to lift a parts of this next single span bridge over the Rouge River. Taken 25/09/20

More on this project here

 

[NW87]

An old foundation of a home our farm

Another old foundation , there was a some archeological work going on here.

 

[NW87]

James Dick quarry in Brechin, Ontario.

A future Sany Construction equipment dealership to be built in Ramara. This site was used two weeks ago as an equipment demo area for Sany for select operators.

 

[NW87]

Quarry operation near Uhthoff

 

[NW87]

Taken 2025/10/18

 

[NW87]

Simcoe County Museum hosted the Historical Construction Equipment Associations event "The Last Blast" this past Saturday. Volunteers demonstrated old equipment owned by the Museum, the HCEA and private equipped trucked in for the event.

Northwest Model 41 Dragline

Dresser TD-25 Bulldozer

Rare Euclid TC-12 owned by Aggerates Company James Dick who has pits in Caledon, Palgrave and Brechin along with others.

Some of the other units including cable excavators, shovels and a more modern Gradall.

Rare working example of a early steam shovel, an 1922 Erie B Steam Shovel.

 

[NW87]

Fall colours near the 404 and 16th.

 

[NW87]

Nice colours near 16th and the 404.

 

[NW87]

Taken 2015/11/01 just South of Kirby Rd and Jane Street