Micro DiggerGoes through a standard side gate when nothing else will.More info about the Micro Digger
Diggers, dumpers and tools from the Etruria yard, out along the A500 to Crewe and the villages around it.
Micro and mini diggers, dumpers, breakers, wacker plates, cement mixers, saws and generators, hired by the day, the weekend or for as long as the job runs. The yard is on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria and the A500 runs from the end of it to the edge of Crewe, which is the whole reason a yard in Stoke can sensibly cover a town in another county.
Crewe was built by the railway and the housing still tells you so. Street after street of low Victorian terrace went up for railway families, and those streets have the access to match: a front door onto the pavement, a shared entry down the side, and a back yard reached through a gate that has not moved since it was hung. If that is your job, the micro digger at 700mm across the tracks is not the cautious choice, it is the only one that gets there.
Then the town changes completely. Coppenhall, Wistaston and the estates out towards Haslington are post-war and later, with driveways, garages and side gates built to a modern width, and the mini digger is usually the better hire. Past those you are into Cheshire farmland, where the constraint stops being width and starts being ground. Tell us which of the three you are on and we will tell you what to take.
Collection from Etruria is open to anyone, trade or not, and we deliver out to Crewe. Tell us the postcode and what the access is like when you book and we will confirm it.
The Victorian streets that went up around the works have no front access worth the name and a rear entry shared with the neighbours. Measure the narrowest point of the entry rather than the gateway, because the pinch is usually a gatepost, a drain or a buttress halfway along rather than the opening itself. At 700mm across the tracks the micro goes down most of them. Nothing bigger does.
You are on the Cheshire Plain, which is boulder clay over most of it. Clay holds water rather than letting it through, so a trench dug on the Friday can be standing full on the Monday, and the sides go from firm to greasy after a day of rain. Allow for a pump on anything deep, and do not leave an open trench over a wet weekend expecting to find it the way you left it.
Wet clay comes out heavier and bulks up more than people budget for, so the pile is always bigger than the hole suggests. A dumper on site is the difference between one day and two. The tracked one crosses a lawn without writing it off; the 1t wheeled one carries more and moves faster wherever there is a hard route to run on.
Anything in the centre or on the streets around the station wants the drop point agreed before delivery rather than worked out on the day. Loading restrictions and permit bays apply, and shift traffic makes a real difference to when a wagon can sensibly get in and back out again. Tell us where the machine actually has to stand.
Once you are off the estates it is lanes, farm gateways and soft verges that were built for a tractor rather than a plant trailer. Access on site is usually fine. It is the last few hundred yards that catch people out, so measure the gateway and think about what a wet week does to a grass verge before you commit to a date.
The A500 the whole way. Collect from Etruria if you can legally tow it, and check your licence covers the combined weight before you set off, because a standard car licence does not stretch as far as most people assume. We hire plant trailers. Otherwise give us the postcode and the access and we will bring it out.
Yes. The yard is on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, ST4 7BS, and the A500 runs almost the whole way. Ring with the postcode and we will confirm delivery for your job.
The micro digger needs 700mm and the tracked dumper 780mm, which is what gets them down most railway terrace entries. Measure the narrowest point rather than the gateway, because the pinch is usually partway along.
On clay, usually. It comes out heavier and bulks up more than the hole suggests, and barrowing it is what turns a one day job into a two day one. Ask when you book and we will tell you honestly whether you need one.
Yes, collection from Etruria is open to anyone, trade or not. Check your licence and your towing weight first, and if you have nothing to tow with we hire plant trailers.
One call sorts it: what is available, what will get down your access, and whether you are collecting or we are running it out.
Brick Kiln Lane, Etruria · ST4 7BSStraight through to the yard. Tell us the job and we will tell you what shifts it.
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