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Downwell Demolition Brings Flyover Down to Earth

Demolition contractor Downwell Demolition has recently completed a 6 week project demolishing the Sir John Hawkins flyover in Chatham with help from excavators by Hitachi and Komatsu. The flyover's demolition is part of a multimillion pound redevelopment of Chatham city...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 7, 2009 2:07 PM

Beats a flymo any day!

Nick Drew Operator Services has recently taken delivery of a Berti CKT/SB80 flail mower from South West machinery dealership Machine serve The Berti CKB/SB80 is a hydraulic flail head for mini-excavators in the 2,5 - 4 tons range and is...

Posted by Nick Drew on September 12, 2009 11:22 AM

Hitachi excavator recovery video

I came across this excellent video on the Dutch machinery website Bouwmachineforum which is a very friendly and informative source for all things involving plant and machinery. It shows the recovery of a Hitachi ZX110 11 ton excavator which has...

Posted by Nick Drew on August 5, 2009 6:12 PM

Oops down under!

Shaun Hall from Australia recently joined the friends of the digger blog group that is currently running on Facebook and added some fantastic photos of accidents from sites down under. This first series of shots shows a giant Hitachi mining...

Posted by Nick Drew on July 29, 2009 3:26 PM

Excavators take to the water

This interesting series of photos was sent to me last week by Michael Lyne who is Plant Co-ordinator at Saltash based national plant hire company W.H. Bond. They show their Hitachi Zaxis 225USR-LC excavator at work in the river camel...

Posted by Nick Drew on June 28, 2009 10:07 AM

Boom Broom from Digbits

I have recently treated myself to a new little toy for use at home on the weekends. The Boom Broom from Digbits is like all great ideas a very simple one, but highly effective. This 1200mm wide brush has 8...

Posted by Nick Drew on January 11, 2009 10:35 AM

Little & large machines - VIDEO

This video caught my eye recently, two great machines from different ends of the machine selling market. Looks a bit hairy coming out of that bucket with the mini digger....

Posted by Nick Drew on September 20, 2008 8:50 AM