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, collected or delivered across all six towns.
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. All of it is parked at our yard on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria rather than ordered in, so if it’s available when you ring, you can have it.
Being in Etruria puts us in the middle of the six towns rather than at one end of them, so a job in Tunstall and a job in Longton are the same run out. Collect on your way to site if you can carry or tow it, or give us the postcode and we will bring it.
Tell us the job rather than the machine. Most hires that go wrong go wrong because the wrong size turned up for the access, and that is a two minute conversation before you book instead of an argument on the morning.
Collection from Brick Kiln Lane is open to anyone, trade or not, and we deliver right across the city. Tell us the postcode and what the access is like when you book.
Much of the older housing across the six towns is terraced or tightly packed semis, and the route to the back garden is a passage between two houses rather than a driveway. That is why the micro digger at 700mm across the tracks gets hired more than anything else we own. Measure the narrowest point before you book, and remember the soil pipe on the passage wall counts.
Two centuries of pottery, mining and marl pits mean a lot of Stoke sits on made ground, and it is common to find rubble, ash or old foundations a spit down where you expected clay. Worth allowing for when you are working out how much you are shifting, and a good argument for having a dumper on site rather than a wheelbarrow and optimism.
Where it is not made ground it is usually clay, which turns to soup after a wet week and stays that way. Tracked machines spread the load and mark a lawn far less than wheels, but if you are working a garden after heavy rain, board the route out before you start rather than after you have rutted it.
The Trent and Mersey runs right through Etruria and Middleport, and there are filled marl holes and old clay pits scattered across the city that nobody marks on anything. Ground near either tends to hold water well below the surface. If a trench keeps filling faster than you can dig it, that is what a pump is for, and it is a lot less grief to have one on site than to spend a day bailing.
On a multi-day hire in a terrace you need somewhere it can stand that is not the pavement and not blocking the entry. Worth sorting before delivery day rather than at half seven in the morning with a dumper on the back of a trailer. Same goes for where the spoil goes and whether a grab lorry can reach it.
Collect from Brick Kiln Lane on your way to site if you have something that can legally carry or tow it, and check your licence covers the trailer. We hire plant trailers if you need one. Otherwise tell us the postcode and the access when you book and we will run it out.
Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, ST4 7BS, a couple of minutes off the A500. It is central to all six towns rather than out on the edge of the city.
Yes. Give us the postcode and the site access when you book and we will sort delivery. If you would rather collect, the yard is open from half seven.
The micro digger is 700mm across the tracks, which clears a standard 900mm timber side gate with room either side. Measure the whole route rather than just the gate, because meter boxes and soil pipes are usually the real pinch point.
Yes. A day, a weekend or longer. Ring when the job is done and we will off hire it from that point rather than from whenever you get it back to us.
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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