Nick Drew has been involved in the plant industry since he was 8 years old when he used to accompany his father to work on the weekends.
After leaving school in 1977, he started work with Wimpey Plant & Transport in Southampton as an apprentice plant fitter, before taking the operator's seat a year later.
Nick went on to work for several other civil engineering companies, before moving to Devon in 1998 and forming his own plant hire company, Nick Drew Excavators. Since 2001, he has worked on a self-employed basis as Nick Drew Operator Services, and currently subbying for various companies in the the South and South West of England.
Nick also takes on work with his own 3 ton Hitachi mini excavator.
Interests outside work include ice hockey and breeding sports horses - interested buyers should drop him a line.
Comments (11)
Hello Nick,
Beautyfull Blog.
My compliments for the great work.
Kind Regards,
Eric TB
BouwmachineWeb.com
Posted by Eric | October 26, 2008 12:35 PM
Posted on October 26, 2008 12:35
Hello Nick very interesting site being an ex Demonstrator now retired after an Accident in West Africa have seen a lot of interesting things happen whilst on my travells .
Regards Tom
Posted by Tom Aspin | January 27, 2009 9:19 PM
Posted on January 27, 2009 21:19
Hi Nick,nice site !
Posted by david heighington | February 1, 2009 3:20 PM
Posted on February 1, 2009 15:20
Hi David,
Thanks for the comment !
Very pleased to hear you are enjoying Digger as much as I enjoy writing it.
Posted by Nick Drew
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February 3, 2009 12:33 PM
Posted on February 3, 2009 12:33
Hello Nick, Hope all is well.
Great to see your are keeping the HY-MAC HYMAC
machines and owners active, well done.
Please let me know what sport horses you breed
as i keep horses my self, eventer's and race horses, it would be interesting.
Happy Easter.
Tony.
Posted by Anthony o' gorman | April 12, 2009 10:00 AM
Posted on April 12, 2009 10:00
Hi Anthony,
Thank you for your comment about Hymacs, It never ceases to amaze me how much interest there still is in the old Hymac range and long may it last!
Please forward me your email address regarding our sports horses.
Posted by Nick Drew
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April 13, 2009 12:16 PM
Posted on April 13, 2009 12:16
hi nick
The jcb rare vintage film you have put on the blog features my father in law don haddlesey
we all had a good laugh watching the film together it brought back good memories for don.None of my children had seen don as a young man cheers Terry Plumb.
Posted by terry plumb | April 18, 2009 11:19 AM
Posted on April 18, 2009 11:19
Hi Terry,
Its great to hear that !!
Its always good to hear that readers are getting great enjoyment from the blog, and remember if your father in law has any archive photos he would like to share with us send them to me by email.
Posted by Nick Drew
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April 18, 2009 6:38 PM
Posted on April 18, 2009 18:38
Hi, Nick!!
I am looking for decals for my dads old excavators. He is collecting old excavators and right now he has Preistman Tiger, Preistman Wolf, Preistman Beaver for example. I am looking for pictures of the decals / stickers used on these machines. Do you know where to look? I am going to surprise him with these new stickers!!
Kindly / Helena from Sweden
Posted by Helena | May 20, 2009 10:25 AM
Posted on May 20, 2009 10:25
Hi Helena,
May I suggest you take a look at the machinery forum www.classicmachinery.net and you might be able to see some in the excavators section or you can post this question there and one of the other members may have an answer for you.
Regards Nick.
Posted by Nick Drew
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May 21, 2009 9:55 PM
Posted on May 21, 2009 21:55
Dear Nick, haven't heard from you recently since your partner had the horse accident. Hope she is improving OK. Re the blog on decals from Sweden (Helena) I have references for most of the old animal transfers for machines. The stock of actual transfers was used up as the Parts Dept.supplied them to new owners. My colleague in York, DAVID WEEDON, owns a lot of Priestman plant. I am finding references to make new decals or signwritten heads for him. Have just made a good quality black and white print of Beaver and when I locate a colour photograph, this will enable it to be signwritten on his machine. Have a Lion to copy also, and I think a Cub could be found. I mention all this in case you have a need or anyone you know. I sent a copy of the latest Newsletter for the V.E.T. - hope you received it. Keep in touch, there's a lot happening. I replied to the man who is searching for a Cub dragline bucket and to John Davies in N.Wales re Wolf excavators.
Can you send me Helena's e-mail for me to reply please? Regards Bill
Posted by bill bromwich - hull | October 6, 2009 3:58 PM
Posted on October 6, 2009 15:58