Joe Allan & Sons Plant Hire & Contracting is a specialist in low ground pressure operation, used to accessing remote power infrastructure across Scotland for utility company SSE. With both wheeled and tracked machinery in its fleet, second generation managing director David Allan was looking for a specific crawler excavator to meet the Glasgow company’s standards. David Allan called on Stirling-based low ground pressure specialist JCC Group for adaptations. “The machine has been designed mainly for utilities and some private work,” says David Allan. Joe Allan & Sons intends to keep the Kubota for three to four years and, though anyone can operate it, David Allan tends to take control of the widened KX085-5 himself for much of the time.