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New Doosan DL450-5 Wheel Loader is Lynchpin Machine at Tulloch

Tulloch Developments, a large civil and marine engineering contractor in Shetland, off the north coast of Scotland, has purchased a new Doosan DL450-5 wheeled loader. The machine arrived from the Scottish mainland’s Inverurie-based Balgownie, an authorised Doosan and Bobcat dealer.
September 30, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
Doosan DL450-5
A workout in the Shetlands for Doosan’s DL450-5

Tulloch Developments, a large civil and marine engineering contractor in Shetland, off the north coast of Scotland, has purchased a new Doosan DL450-5 wheeled loader.

The machine arrived from the Scottish mainland’s Inverurie-based Balgownie, an authorised 695 Doosan and 1130 Bobcat dealer.

A family company, Lerwick-based Tulloch Developments is using the DL450-5 at its Staney Hill quarry. It replaces a DL400 wheeled loader for loading and stockpilng material - drainage aggregates, concrete aggregates, hardcore and sand - produced by the quarry’s crushing and screening equipment.

Tulloch Developments also provides an established ready-mix concrete service, available to Shetland businesses and the public, using the company’s fleet of specialised trucks. The DL450-5 wheeled loader is kept busy filling the material bins used to supply the ready-mix concrete system at the quarry.

“The new machine is a lynchpin for us as it works for extensive periods in both our aggregates production area and in the ready-mix concrete plant,” says George Smith, a director at Tulloch Developments. “The DL400 was a good performer but I have great confidence in the benefits that the DL450-5 Stage IV machine will bring in productivity and the fuel efficiency and reliability of the new 759 Scania engine.”

The DL450-5 is powered by the Scania DC13 6-cylinder engine producing 257kW of power at 1800 rpm. There is generous torque at low rpm meaning up to a 10% reduction in fuel consumption and excellent response. The engine meets Stage IV emissions regulations without the need of a diesel particulate filter, through the use of cooled exhaust gas recirculation and selective catalyst reduction aftertreatment technologies.

In addition to the Scania DC13 Stage IV engine, the DL450-5 features a new external styling that is common to all of the new DL-5 Stage IV wheeled loader range. There is a new high comfort cab, smooth and responsive hydraulics, a ZF powertrain, axle cooling and auxiliary hydraulic connections.

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