The SANY SY305C is a 30-tonne all-rounder capable of ensuring stable operations day in, day out.   Awesome Earthmovers were on site with DAB Civils as a guest of SANY dealer, Global Machinery Solutions, who have been contracted to an extensive 220-house build project in the South of England.   They caught up with operator Wayne Ward who was working with the civils group on this project. The SANY  SY305C was deployed for creating and filling deep drainage systems for the large number of homes being built. These drainage holes need to be between five and six metres deep, requiring…

The Kiwi Farm Partnership is a King’s Lynn-based arable farming and contracting business that’s run by husband and wife team Will and Alex. They also develop recreational outdoor spaces, such as glamping and camping sites.   One of their most recent projects is the renovation of Holt Hollow, a 15-acre lakeside camping and glamping site that’s nestled in woodland and surrounded by beautiful North Norfolk countryside near Cromer.   Although Holt Hollow was a previously established site, it hadn’t been in use for years and had become very overgrown. The natural lake was also full of silt, leaves and wood…

The Derbyshire Peak District is renowned for its high-quality limestone, which is used to produce a huge array of products from aggregates to make-up. The area contains some of the largest quarries in the UK, which tend to use their in-house resources for extracting the product. However, some use the services of specialist contractors to undertake secondary quarrying work, typically contract crushing, or to develop a specific area of a site.   It was at one such location that we met Banner Contracts, one of the UK’s foremost contract crushing companies. Already undertaking a sizeable crushing operation on another part…

Ely Skip Hire Ltd established in 1985 are a family run business that started out supplying a small number of mini skips locally in and around Ely.   To date, and operating from two sites based in Ely & Cambridge, Ely Skip Hire Ltd has grown to be one of the premier skip hire companies in the area providing skip hire and waste recycling to homeowners and construction sites across Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk.   Doug Stuart, owner of Ely Skips is extremely proud of their green credentials. They aim to recycle 95% of all waste they handle, keeping to a minimum…

SANY excavators will be playing a major role in a £40m upgrade to the water network at Peterhead in Scotland over the next couple of years. Main contractors AG Wilson Civil Engineering, who are based in County Armagh in Northern Ireland, could have as many as 12 SANY models on the site once the project is fully up and running.   Included will be a recently acquired 40 tonne SANY SY390H excavator and two SANY SY215C machines from SANY’s Irish dealer, Sleator Plant. They join a number of other SANY’s ranging from eight tonne upwards, in addition to a SANY…

Whilst working for a contractor in North Wales, Alun Hughes saw an opportunity to offer his services to landowners requiring estate maintenance, something his employer at the time didn’t do. The purchase of a used 8t machine saw Alun undertake several jobs before taking the full time leap into running his own company.   With the estate management work decreasing and an increase in jobs asking him to cater more in forestry works, Alun looked to replace the 8t machine he was running with a small timber grab and upscale to a JS130 with a larger attachment. Once this step…