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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 the UK press/media. The participants... Posted Oct 18 2009, 10:19 AM by Digger Filed under: excavators, Mini-excavators, New Holland, Italy, Skid steers, Operator Challenge

• 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 some of the accident shots I have in... Posted Oct 08 2009, 04:50 PM by Digger Filed under: Mini-excavators, accidents

• 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, a town of about... Posted Oct 04 2009, 12:56 PM by Digger Filed under: Volvo, Mini-excavators, CMN, Sweden, Maskinisten

• 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... Posted Sep 20 2009, 02:51 PM by Digger Filed under: Volvo, Mini-excavators, Plant Hire

• 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 ideally suited... Posted Sep 12 2009, 12:22 PM by Digger Filed under: Mini-excavators, Hitachi, Mowers, Mini excavator hire, Nick Drew Operator Services

• 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 Sep 06 2009, 07:20 PM by Digger Filed under: Hyundai, excavators, Mini-excavators, Rubber Duck, Turkey

• 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 is well worth a look and... Posted Jun 23 2009, 06:18 PM by Digger Filed under: Mini-excavators, New Holland, Skid steers, Telehandlers

• 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 Jun 22 2009, 04:23 PM by Digger Filed under: Takeuchi, Mini-excavators, ADS Ltd

• 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 it one... Posted Jun 07 2009, 10:05 AM by Digger Filed under: Takeuchi, Volvo, excavators, caterpillar, Mini-excavators, Case, wheeled loader, Duchy College, dumpers

• 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 exhibitors and visitors... Posted May 16 2009, 02:59 PM by Digger Filed under: SED, Hyundai, excavators, JCB, Mini-excavators, Case, wheeled loader, New Holland, Doosan, Ammann Yanmar, Engcon

• 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 May 10 2009, 01:23 PM by Digger Filed under: Volvo, Mini-excavators, Plant Hire

• 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, then he... Posted Mar 31 2009, 08:14 PM by Digger Filed under: Takeuchi, Mini-excavators, Video, funny

• 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 the drivers mate decided it would help if he sat on the back... Posted Mar 24 2009, 01:52 PM by Digger Filed under: JCB, Mini-excavators, funny, micro

• 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 in Eskilstuna too, must... Posted Mar 05 2009, 07:47 PM by Digger Filed under: Volvo, excavators, Graders, Mini-excavators, Wheeled loaders, Dumptrucks