Welcome to www.diggers-dumpers-plant.co.uk
Also known as www.oilyhands.co.uk
Website
with towable digger, excavator and backhoe information. Features Fleming Micron,
Powerfab, Mantis, Benford, Roughneck, Gopher, Smalley, Tow-hoe, Standard
Muscleman, homemade and other small diggers. Links to current manufacturers such
as Groupe-FCM, Hubei, Dig It and suppliers of plans for the Ground Hawg
Homebuilt Backhoe and CDP Excavator. Includes various other plant, construction
and mechanical projects, Plant Photo Gallery and
useful links for Spares and Repairs. Extra information and pictures to add to
the site always appreciated. The website now includes a new section dedicated to
preserving information about
Johnson Machinery Limited.
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- Homepage
- Site Overview
- Contact the webmaster
- Latest additions
- Plant photo gallery
- Fleming Micron digger restoration
- Powerfab digger page
- Roughneck diggers
- Gopher micro excavator
- Smalley diggers
- Benford ME130 and Mantis digger
- Toe-Hoe and Standard Muscleman
- FCM Diggers and Backhoes
- Homemade backhoes and new towable diggers
- List of known towable diggers
- Digger spares and repairs
- Towable digger V. Mini Digger?
- Frequently asked questions
- Fleming Micron engine change
- Dumper Restoration
- Johnson Machinery Section
- Homemade derrick crane
- Homemade go-cart
- Concrete imprinting roller
- Suspension Bush Renewal
- Strimmer repair
- Sewing with zip ties plastic repair
- Levant Mine visit
Latest Additions/Update Log - for regular visitors to the site
My mate Andy says it's hard to find new bits of info on the site without looking through it all. Fair comment. I must admit the site has grown rather a lot lately and I am tending to add bits and pieces of information to the existing pages. So from now on when I add new stuff I will post links to it on this page and the date it was added.
- 03/11/08 Jonathan's Roughneck and Henry's Johnson Mud pump added.
- 28/10/08 Robin's info about Roughneck Skiploader spares added to FAQ's page.
- 26/10/08 My dumper is now in the garage. Work will be starting soon.
- 10/10/08 Mart & Bob's rare electric 3 phase power pack and Ray's clamshell bucket added.
- 08/10/08 Stan's Case 648 picture added
- 30/09/08 Dave's Thwaites Dumper Digger and my pictures of an old John Deere wheel digger added.
- 28/09/08 Richard's Ford/Sherman homebuilt backhoe added
- 23/09/08 Ben's Smalley 5 Mark 2 digger added
- 20/09/08 Updated Homemade Digger page with link to http://www.thegreensmachines.com/
- 15/09/08 Spares and Repairs page updated with link to E-Gaskets and links to other sites of interest to plant enthusiasts. Page 13 added to Photo Gallery with Ruston Bucyrus and Priestman pictures from a recent trip to Falmouth. Derrick crane page updated to show my construction mistake!
- 07/09/08 Roger's Micron Skidsteer added. At last some pictures of this rare machine.
- 31/08/08 Johnson Machinery index page updated with information kindly provided by David.
- 31/08/08 Steve's Benford ME130 pictures and information added.
- 26/08/08 Euclid Motor Scraper added. 2 more PDF's added to Johnson Archive.
- 24/08/08 Shaun's Fowell? dumper added. Update to Johnson Index page as I now know the company was dissolved in 1979.
- 22/08/08 Shaun's Johnson 2HG and Johnson Dumper and Hi-Placer PDF added.
- 21/08/08 2 more PDF's added to Johnson Literature Archive
- 20/08/08 The new Johnson Machinery Section added to the site. I will be working on improving this over the coming months. I have a lot of work to do to make the PDF's for the Literature Archive and will add them as I go. Now that the Towable Digger information is fairly complete, the Johnson Section will provide a new direction for the website.
- 18/08/08 Mart and Bob's latest Powerfab project added.
- 12/08/08 Brendan's mystery Petter petrol engined dumper added
- 07/08/08 Page 12 added to Photo Gallery
- 03/08/08 Toe-Hoe page now has 360 Muscleman brochure added
- 02/08/08 Hydraulic oils section added to FAQ's page
- 29/07/08 Bob's Cast tractor added
- 28/07/08 Muir Hill 10B pictures added to page 11 of the Photo Gallery
- 16/07/08 Hough Payloader added
- 07/07/08 Dobwalls Bypass pictures added
- 25/06/08 Update to FAQ page about Roughneck Dumper spares.
- 21/06/08 My Broyt excavator pictures and Michael's Ruston Bucyrus 22-RB pictures added.
- 14/06/08 My latest extreme zip tie repair added. Plus pictures of the lawnmower that has annoyed me recently and the very old lawnmower that saved the day. The old lawnmower belonged to my grandfather (he bought it second hand). Originally it had an Aspera engine, this died in 1994 and I fitted a "modern" Briggs and Stratton from a 1982 machine instead. My major complaints about the EFCO apart from the busted cable are the rubbish Eco-friendly engine which doesn't rev and the stupid safety device which stops it as soon as you let go of the handle.
- 10/06/08 Gary's Powerfab and Thwaites dumper added
- 06/06/08 Page 9 added to the Photo Gallery
- 02/06/08 Sean's Kubota KH 14 added to the Photo Gallery
- 01/06/08 Johnson and Thwaites dumpers and Rushworth Crane put in gallery
- 30/05/08 I've scrapped the Baromix mixer after 18 years of use!
- 26/05/08 Fleming Micron engine change page completed
- 23/05/08 Bill's Smalley pictures and information added to the Smalley page
- 21/05/08 Bill's Jones, 10-RB + 22_RB pictures added to Photo Gallery + Page 8 created
- 20/05/08 Duncans Shelvoke + Drewry Ltd forklift pictures added to Photo Gallery
- 17/05/08 PDF's of original brochure added to Standard Muscleman digger details
- 16/05/08 Lin's Komatsu? added. Information needed please.
- 16/05/08 John's Muir-Hill Dumper and Priestman added to the photo gallery
- 15/05/08 Page 7 added to the Photo Gallery
- 15/05/08 Apologies for the lack of minor updates over the past couple of months but there is a good reason! A major update of the whole site to convert it to a Cascading Style Sheets based design. Pretty much all the original information is retained and there are lots of new additions. The Photo Gallery has expanded and you will find that some pictures have moved to different pages. I hope you like the new site as it has been a tremendous amount of work altering it all. But now it will be easier for me to add new things as they get sent in and generally improve the site for the future. Key additions are: Pages 5 and 6 in the Photo Gallery, a new type of digger the Jurop, extra pictures, sales literature and an operators manual added to the Roughneck page, Mart and Bob's electric start conversion added to the Powerfab page, new pictures on the Site Overview and John's Mantis digger added to the Mantis page.
- 27/03/08 Homemade go-cart page built (the first page I have designed using CSS.)
- 09/03/08 Paul's Gopher digger added showing machine folded ready for road transportation.
- 09/03/08 Jason's Gopher added to Gopher page and company name updated to Gopher International Ltd.
- 29/02/08 Frequently Asked Questions page created.
- 29/02/08 Improvements to message form to cut down number of email addresses entered incorrectly.
- 05/02/08 Tom's mystery dumper added to the archive
- 08/01/08 Dumper restoration page updated
- 05/01/08 Groupe-FCM page completed
- 04/01/08 Priestman crane and Case 648 digger added to Photo Gallery
- 22/12/07 Levant Mine page updated with link to supplier of Mine Under the Sea book
- 15/12/07 Bill's comments added to Smalley digger Page
- 28/11/07 Benny Skorpio digger and large dump trucks added to archive
- 27/11/07 Standard Muscleman controls picture added
- 27/11/07 Fifth page added to photo archive
- 05/11/07 Paul's Standard Muscleman digger added
- 02/11/07 Colin's Smalley 360-5
- 02/11/07 Gopher digger sent in by Kingsley
- 27/10/07 Neills Cast tractor added to archive and Powerfab to Powerfab digger page
- 23/10/07 Dedicated Tow-Hoe and Standard Muscleman page created