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Digger heads for New Holland event

Next Friday three of the UK's top operators fly out to Turin in Italy to take part in the New Holland Grand Prix 2009 along with your blogger Nick Drew and Graham Black from Earthmovers who will both be representing...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 18, 2009 9:19 AM

Mini excavator mishaps top five

Whilst watching Britain does the funniest things on Saturday night tv, I saw the video that I featured here on the Digger blog where the guy falls off the Takeuchi TB008 into the trench and It got me thinking about...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 8, 2009 3:50 PM

Working with frozen ground Swedish style!

As the long winter evenings are just around the corner now, I thought we would look at how are Scandinavian friends tackle jobs in the harsh winters in Sweden. Robert Carlsson is a groundworks and plant hire contractor from Eskilstuna,...

Posted by Nick Drew on October 4, 2009 11:56 AM

Volvo minis are working well at Hire Direct Plant & Tool

Since taking delivery of three ECR48C Volvo compact excavators last October, Mark Evans, Operations Director for Hire Direct Plant and Tool of Ascot Berkshire has been pleased with his purchasing decision. Although no strangers to Volvo Construction Equipment these are...

Posted by Nick Drew on September 20, 2009 1:51 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

Hyundai's rule in Turkey

Turkish machinery operator and enthusiast Mehmet Boyaci recently made contact with me on the new Friends of the Digger blog group on Facebook Mehmet lives and works in Izmir which is Turkey's third most populous city and the country's largest...

Posted by Nick Drew on September 6, 2009 6:20 PM

Probably the best Digger advert in the world!

I came across this advert for New Holland construction equipment in a recent edition of the Australian earthmoving magazine Final Trim and it kind of got me thinking why can't we have adverts like this in the UK! Final Trim...

Posted by Nick Drew on June 23, 2009 5:18 PM

Takeuchi mini excavators all the way for ADS Ltd

Expanding company Absolute Drainage Solutions (South West) Ltd was formed 5 years ago by Graham Townsend and Steve McKechnie both of whom have over 20 years experience in the groundworks industry. Graham said "We had been highly impressed with the...

Posted by Nick Drew on June 22, 2009 3:23 PM

Digger visits the Royal Cornwall Show

This weekend I took the oportunity to visit the Royal Cornwall show which takes place at the beginning of June each year, at Wadebridge in North Cornwall. The show lasts for three days and attracts approximately 120,000 visitors annually, making...

Posted by Nick Drew on June 7, 2009 9:05 AM

Digger's SED round up

As Freddie Mercury and Queen once sang "the show must go on" and go on it did at SED 2009 last week at Rockingham! Understandably in the current climate the show was considerably smaller than in previous years but most...

Posted by Nick Drew on May 16, 2009 1:59 PM

More Volvo minis added to Didcot's fleet

Didcot Plant Limited continues a long standing relationship with Volvo Construction Equipment as it adds more Volvo EC55B Pro mini excavators to its fleet. Established in 1967 Didcot Plant has been synonymous with plant hire for over forty years. Since...

Posted by Nick Drew on May 10, 2009 12:23 PM

Takeuchi's & cowboys don't mix

This incredible video depicts a whole catalogue of health and safety wrong doings and bad working procedures. In the first instance the "driver" tracks an 835kg Takeuchi TB108 on to a piece of plywood that is spanning a wide trench,...

Posted by Nick Drew on March 31, 2009 7:14 PM

JCB micro with added counterweight

I took this couple of photos on a site I was on a few years ago on Plymouth Hoe. The little JCB micro excavator was struggling to pick up some steel road plates which were too heavy for it, so...

Posted by Nick Drew on March 24, 2009 1:52 PM

Volvo construction equipment history

Came across this interesting video which briefly tells the story of Volvo construction equipment from the days of Bolinder - Munktell up to todays modern concept machinery ideas. I am told that there is a very good museum to visit...

Posted by Nick Drew on March 5, 2009 7:47 PM

Volvo ECR28 compact excavator

I was very kindly invited to my local Volvo compact equipment dealership Plant & Engineering Services Ltd at Beare nr Exeter recently to take a look at the Volvo ECR28 short swing excavator. I have been thinking about investing in...

Posted by Nick Drew on January 1, 2009 11:05 AM

Caterpillar launches new 8 ton D-series excavators

Last week I was very kindly invited to attend the opening of the new Caterpillar visitors centre at Desford in Leicester. The opening of this world class facility was also used to launch new models into the product range. Of...

Posted by Nick Drew on November 22, 2008 6:12 PM

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