Maintaining gardens can literally become a full time job. Doing it all by hand slows you down considerably. So is there an easier way? Thankfully there is a range of garden machinery that serves to make your heavy gardening work that much faster and easier.
Mini diggers (or excavators) are ideal for clearing on small scale sites as well as doing the levelling work before landscaping begins. They are also good for a variety of other gardening tasks. For example if you wish to build a small pond, then a mini digger will make it considerably easier than using a shovel. The difference in time taken could be days or even weeks if you are doing all the work yourself.
So what else can mini diggers be used for? To name a few tasks:
- Trenches and hole digging
- Handling materials
- Brush cutting
- Demolition
- Heavy lifting
- Garden Renovations
- Excavations
- Landscaping
- Footings
- Ponds
Compact or mini diggers generally weigh around 1500kg and have a bucket size of around 0.035 m³. Most will let you adjust the width of the tracks. Some are even small enough to fit through a doorway due to very small adjustable tracks. The mini digger you choose should suit the job you are trying to complete as well as take into consideration the size of the area you have to work in.
Mini digger hire is not overly expensive and the benefits generally outweigh the cost of hiring the equipment. Using a mini digger vs undertaking all the work by hand can save you many days or weeks in hard labor as well as hundreds of pounds in hiring help. Generally when hiring an excavator for home or small site use you’ll have a choice between micro diggers and mini diggers as well as much larger equipment for bigger work sites.
Building a pond for example with a mini digger seems simple compared with doing it by hand. If you construct a pond by hand you must physically shovel out several cubic metres of often hard dirt. This can be back breaking work but a mini digger makes it so easy.
Many mini diggers offer attachments to add functionality. For example you can get a ripper which is great for ripping out hard ground. A leveller is another hydraulic attachment on some mini diggers which serve to easily spread and level soil.
