Digging It gets down with Hyundai fleet

Ben Boare is the founder and managing director of Digging It Groundworks – a multifaceted construction company based in Andover in southern England. Boare formed Digging in 2007. “We initially started out doing small groundworks jobs, but as the years pass by we are focusing more and more on the plant hire side of things and our crushing, screening and recycling operation,” he said. The company has historically run a mixed fleet of hydraulic excavators, including JCB, Volvo, Takeuchi and Kubota. But in re
October 3, 2018 Read time: 3 mins
Digging It offers diversity with their 10-strong Hyundai fleet
Ben Boare is the founder and managing director of Digging It Groundworks – a multifaceted construction company based in Andover in southern England.


Boare formed Digging in 2007. “We initially started out doing small groundworks jobs, but as the years pass by we are focusing more and more on the plant hire side of things and our crushing, screening and recycling operation,” he said.

The company has historically run a mixed fleet of hydraulic excavators, including 255 JCB, 2394 Volvo, 1654 Takeuchi and 1265 Kubota. But in recent years they have turned to 236 Hyundai, with the first unit an R 140LC-9.

One of the latest Hyundai  is a second-hand R 145LCR-9A compact radius machine, this was closely followed by a 22-tonne class Hyundai R 220LC-9A and an HL757-9 wheeled loading shovel which is used in the company’s recycling facility.

Ben’s latest deal through the local distributor Molson Group is for three new 14 tonne Hyundai HX140L excavators.

At the company’s Andover yard, the company’s tippers and grab lorries and other outside hauliers bring in the waste material from sites around the county for processing.

The waste material is put through one of the company’s self-propelled mobile crushers, in this instance a 201 Deutz powered 747 Rubble Master RM 70GO. According to the manufacturer, it can produce up to 120 tonnes of crushed product per hour, depending on the condition of the through-put material. This unit in turn feeds one of firm’s Maximus 409 vibratory screening units. Also Deutz powered, the screen enables the company to produce a high quality 10mm stone product and grid sand, all of which is sold locally to civil engineering companies.

“We focus on producing the best quality product we can, we don’t do the regular 6F5 material because everyone is producing that, but the 10mm and grid sand we produce is highly sought after in our area,” said Boare.

Boare has just received the latest addition and his 9th machine purchased from Molson - a Hyundai HX140L excavator, which was put straight to work loading concrete into the Rubble Master. The HX140L tips the scales at 13,990kgs. The machine has a 4-cylinder 299 Perkins 1204F-E44TAN 4-cycle turbocharged engine and a gross power output rating of 92.7kw at 1,950rpm.

As short distance away from the company’s headquarters another of their Maximus screening machines is working, in this instance a 512S model which was has been put to work screening topsoil on a large housing development site. This unit is being fed by one of Digging It’s 21 tonne hydraulic excavator offerings, the Hyundai R220LC-9A.

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