Direct Tool & Plant Hire Ltd, based in Beverley in East Yorkshire in the UK, has taken delivery of an order of new Bobcat mini excavators supplied by AMS Bobcat Limited, based in Scunthorpe, the Authorised Bobcat Dealer for Lincolnshire, South and East Yorkshire and North Norfolk.
Direct Tool & Plant Hire has expanded its rental fleet with three cabbed versions of the new Bobcat E16 1.6 tonne model and two E10z 1 tonne mini-excavators, available throughout East Yorkshire including Hull and Humberside as well as North Lincolnshire.
The E16 is part of Bobcat’s new groundbreaking R2-Series range of 1-2 tonne mini excavator models. Comprising the new E16, E17z, E19 and E20z machines, the R2-Series offers many new features, in particular the high-performance SmartFlow load-sensing hydraulics system coupled to a closed centre/flow-sharing valve block powered by an upgraded engine, providing a sophisticated engineering set up that is unique in smaller machines like these.
This combination essentially provides the power on demand seen in larger excavators, ensuring continuously available power that improves precision and efficiency.
The new mini excavators always offer the required flow, utilising the minimum energy needed, ensuring the minimum of power is expended, allowing the operator to always work hard with the excavator, but at the same time save fuel.
This results in a lowering of fuel consumption of up to 18% coupled with a noise reduction of 4 dBA (compared to the previous generation machines).
