Hi

Can anyone give me an approx. idea of how much to hire a mini-digger
for a weekend, incl delivery & collection ? Smallest standard model
will suffice, in the York/Harrogate area.

Are they straightforward to use ? I need to reposition a gravel
driveway and also dig a soakaway. Fortunately, both jobs are well back
from the house so there's no chance of hitting anything !

TIA.

wrote:
Can anyone give me an approx. idea of how much to hire a mini-digger
for a weekend, incl delivery & collection ? Smallest standard model
will suffice, in the York/Harrogate area.


Yes, lots of people can give you an approx. idea, including:

http://www.yellowtom.co.uk/perl2/v2....&Productid=475
http://harrogate.com/ResultsPage.asp...e=5&typeid=797
http://www.tarmacdrives-harrogate.com/
P and R Plant Hire Ltd., Clint Bank, Burnt Yates, Harrogate HG3 3DW
(01423 770731)
Harper Haulage, Brackenwood Crag Back Rd, High Birstwith, Harrogate,
HG3 2JH. (01423 771480)

as well as any other firms you can find in the Yellow Pages, or by a
simple Google search for "Harrogate mini-digger hire". Not difficult.



Are they straightforward to use ?

Yes.

Cheapest place in harrogate is the hire shop at the end of Camwall Road
next door to the Motorbike shop. Hired from them a while ago gave me
loads of advice recomended.


darren

wrote:
Hi

Can anyone give me an approx. idea of how much to hire a mini-digger
for a weekend, incl delivery & collection ? Smallest standard model
will suffice, in the York/Harrogate area.

Are they straightforward to use ? I need to reposition a gravel
driveway and also dig a soakaway. Fortunately, both jobs are well back
from the house so there's no chance of hitting anything !

You may like to cast your eye over
http://www.de-lacey.org/england/del2/float/hewden.html and learn from
my stupidity:-)

Douglas de Lacey

Douglas de Lacey wrote:

You may like to cast your eye over
http://www.de-lacey.org/england/del2/float/hewden.html and learn from
my stupidity:-)

Douglas de Lacey


After a while with a digger you start getting cocky and trying all
kinds of stunts that make you think you should be on TV in one of those
digger display teams :-)

You *might* have been able to make the digger right itself if you
weren't too worried about damage to the engine.

Douglas de Lacey wrote:
wrote:
Hi

Can anyone give me an approx. idea of how much to hire a mini-digger
for a weekend, incl delivery & collection ? Smallest standard model
will suffice, in the York/Harrogate area.

Are they straightforward to use ? I need to reposition a gravel
driveway and also dig a soakaway. Fortunately, both jobs are well back
from the house so there's no chance of hitting anything !

You may like to cast your eye over
http://www.de-lacey.org/england/del2/float/hewden.html and learn from
my stupidity:-)

Douglas de Lacey

And yet these mini-diggers are capable of trancending quite steep
inclines - providing the cab is locked ahead and you use the jib to
steady. My back garden slopes over 3m in 17m in two terraces, and yet I
got the digger from the rear lane where it was delivered all the way
down to the house. Go down forwards using the arm fully extended to
prevent tipping, come back up backwards doing the same....

(£150 for the weeeknd inc delivery and fuel from Brandon Hire).

Phil.

darren wrote:
Cheapest place in harrogate is the hire shop at the end of Camwall Road
next door to the Motorbike shop. Hired from them a while ago gave me
loads of advice recomended.


darren

PMC Hire - I paid them a visit this morning - very helpful, booked an
excavator for next weeked and they chucked in Friday afternoon free
much cheaper than HSS. Well pleased.

Shows you the value of posting on here in addition to a routine Google
query - recomendations are invaluable.

cheers Darren.

wrote:
darren wrote:
Cheapest place in harrogate is the hire shop at the end of Camwall Road
next door to the Motorbike shop. Hired from them a while ago gave me
loads of advice recomended.


darren

PMC Hire - I paid them a visit this morning - very helpful, booked an
excavator for next weeked and they chucked in Friday afternoon free
much cheaper than HSS. Well pleased.

Shows you the value of posting on here in addition to a routine Google
query - recomendations are invaluable.

cheers Darren.

Go on then ... how much?

Phil wrote:
wrote:
darren wrote:
Cheapest place in harrogate is the hire shop at the end of Camwall Road
next door to the Motorbike shop. Hired from them a while ago gave me
loads of advice recomended.


darren

PMC Hire - I paid them a visit this morning - very helpful, booked an
excavator for next weeked and they chucked in Friday afternoon free
much cheaper than HSS. Well pleased.

Shows you the value of posting on here in addition to a routine Google
query - recomendations are invaluable.

cheers Darren.

Go on then ... how much?

189.95 along with a vibrating plate, fuel, delivery, VAT. deliver
14:30 Friday, collect Monday.