Welcome to www.diggers-dumpers-plant.co.uk
Also known as www.oilyhands.co.uk and www.flamingskoda.com
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 and suppliers of plans for the Ground Hawg
Homebuilt Backhoe and CDP Excavator. Includes other plant
and mechanical information, Digger
Bucket page, Plant Photo Gallery,
Dumper Restoration Project and
useful links for Digger 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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- Home
- Site Overview
- Contact the webmaster
- Latest additions
- Plant Discussion Group
- 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
- Mitchell Cotts digger
- FCM Diggers and Backhoes
- Homemade backhoes and new towable diggers
- List of known towable diggers
- Digger buckets
- Digger spares and repairs
- Towable digger V. Mini Digger?
- Frequently asked questions
- Fleming Micron engine change
- Dumper Restoration
- Dumper Restoration p. 2
- Johnson Machinery Section
- Older projects
Latest Additions/Update Log - for regular visitors to the site
- 28/07/10 Link to Unwin Hydraulics added.
- 27/07/10 Ewen's memories of Johnson Machinery's Scottish Depot added.
- 27/07/10 John's Johnson Motil Utility Truck added to the surviving machines page.
- 19/07/10 Ford wheel digger picture added.
- 13/07/10 John H's excellent pictures of taking his Gopher digger across a lake added.
- 13/07/10 FAQ's page updated with information from John about the Hydraulic Oil for the Gopher digger.
- 07/07/10 Dig-It backhoe photo from Bob added.
- 28/06/10 Jamies Johson Dumper added.
- 28/06/10 Minor updates to Johnson Machinery information with information provided by John P.
- 09/06/10 Craig has identified Bruce's Longhini Idrodumper and kindly provided a 1979 brochure for it
- 03/06/10 Original Fleming Micron GX and Micron Turbo 20 brochures kindly supplied by Mike Fleming added.
- 14/05/10 Anthony's Thwaites dumper digger and Colin's Smalley digger added to page 19 of the Photo Gallery
- 06/05/10 Johnson 2HG dumper and George Fowler dumper added
- 20/04/10 Will's Benford dumper added.
- 12/04/10 Johnson Apprentice School information updated.
- 12/04/10 Tim's Barford 75 and Peter's Powerfab 1250X added.
- 10/04/10 New Mantis picture from Chris added
- 07/04/10 Pictures of the recovery of my Roughneck Excavator added.
- 06/40/10 Trevor's pictures of the Johnson Apprentice School added
- 06/04/10 More photos from David C added to the Johnson Machinery section. Concrete pouring, Office Staff, Brian Dearden and Cyril Stokes.
- 26/03/10 Pictures of Johnson Works Staff added and extra PDF's added to archive.
- 24/03/10 Pictures of Johnson drawing office staff added. Also dumper from the 1950's
- 23/03/10 I have started work on adding the excellent pictures and documents about Johnson Machinery kindly provided by Dave C. See the new factory pictures and Kirkintilloch pictures.
- 11/03/10 My dumper restoration updated
- 11/03/10 Nathan's Barford Bison dumper added
- 02/03/10 Peter's Smalley digger added
- 23/02/10 Page 18 added to the photo gallery with Barry's digger and dumper/loader from Australia
- 16/02/10 Williams Johnson 3E dumper added to the Johnson Survivors page.
- 16/02/10 Johnson 1A, 3B and 3E Dumper manual finally converted into a PDF.
- 07/02/10 Smalley 5T brochure from the 1980's added. Thanks to Keoni for this.
- 11/01/10 Kevin's Powerfab 300 added.
- 10/01/10 2 more unidentified dumpers added to the photo gallery
- 10/01/10 Peter's Johnson 2HG dumper added to the survivors page
- 09/01/10 New contact form built using PHP to cut down on spam messages.
- 07/01/10 Andrew's homemade digger added
- 07/01/10 Good news! The Rapier Crane did find a new owner and wasn't scrapped.
- 07/01/10 Minor updates to remove broken links to external sites that have now closed down.
- 07/01/10 Cranvel Backhoe added
- 30/11/09 Nick's JCB 2DII added to the photo gallery
- 23/11/09 A couple of plant pictures from my holiday added.
- 23/11/09 Ray's Powerfab 360W updated picture added.
- 23/11/09 Johnson Humper added which belongs to Myles.
- 19/11/09 Franck's Micron 720 and part numbers for the hydraulic filter added
- 12/11/09 Link to Skorpion Diggers added
- 12/11/09 New picture and video of Greens Machine backhoe added
- 29/10/09 Mervyn's Manitowoc 4600 Crane picture added
- 16/10/09 Len's Hymac and JCB added.
- 13/10/09 Powerfab 125 WT and Hi lift truck added to Archive page 17.
- 08/09/09 Urgent! Can anyone help find a home for this Rapier Crane?
- 18/08/09 Jorge's picture of a 1950's Enfield pump added.
- 11/08/09 Original factory photographs from Phil and Lee added to Johnson Factories page
- 11/08/09 Bruce's Hydrodumper self-loading digger dumper added to the photo gallery. Can anyone identify it?
- 11/08/09 Pictures of Johnson Machinery stand at NEC in 1977 added, kindly supplied by Alastair
- 06/08/09 Bob's Johnson Mud Pump added. New pictures of hydraulic ram repairs added.
- 04/08/09 Dumper restoration updated with progress on axle
- 29/07/09 Updated digger bucket page with a bit about in-line boring.
- 27/07/09 More pictures added to photo gallery page 16. Johns Muir Hill, Myles pictures of a CAT and Invicta Roller and Ross's Ruston Bucyrus 22-RB
- 24/07/09 Minor update to dumper restoration page
- 20/07/09 7 excellent new pictures of Johnson Construction Machinery dumpers added to page 3 of old photographs
- 14/07/09 Johnson Factory page created with photo's from Dave and Alastair
- 14/07/09 More great photo's from Dave. Twin wheel Johnson Rotaplacer. Johnson Humper. Old Dumper
- 14/07/09 Johnson Super Dumper information added to the literature archive thanks to Dave.
- 10/07/09 Mike' Johnson Construction Machinery 2250 AP 4WD dumper added
- 09/07/09 New digger bucket page added
- 07/07/09 David's Skorpion digger information added.
- 02/07/09 Paddy's dumper based forklift added. Confirms what happens when you try to use an automotive steering box on a dumper!
- 01/07/09 Mart's Fleming Micron digger added
- 01/07/09 Lots of new stuff added to the Johnson Machinery section of the website thanks to Dave who supplied it. There are a lot of new PDF's in the archive for Centromat (concrete batching plant), 2WD and 4WD dumpers, Humper and Motil utility truck. There is now a third page of old Johnson Photographs and also Alastair has kindly photographed the factory as it stands in 2009.
- 01/07/09 Unidentified dumper belonging to Maurice added
- 30/06/09 Rob's Athey Crane pictures added.
- 15/06/09 John's homemade digger added.
- 04/06/09 Duncan's excellent Rapier Crane photo added.
- 27/04/09 Reg's 1JP Dumper added to Johnson Machinery Survivors.
- 18/04/09 Thomas's dumper with steering box problems added
- 07/04/09 Dumper restoration page 2 updated - welding the chassis is now done
- 06/04/09 Powerfab 180C sales brochure added (kindly supplied by Ian)
- 01/04/09 Page 2 of dumper restoration updated to show progress with the welding. Markus's Thwaites Nimbus pictures added and John's Powerfab and Thwaites Nimline dumper to the Photo Gallery
- 26/03/09 Minor updates to navigation links on left of page. Link to discussion group is now near the top and there is a new link to the second page of my Dumper Restoration.
- 23/03/09 Dumper restoration now has a second page
- 16/03/09 Dumper restoration updated. Fleming Micron pictures added
- 12/03/09 Smalley sales brochure from 1972 added (kindly supplied by Edward)
- 10/03/09 Peter's Conveyancer Fork Lift added to the photo gallery
- 04/03/09 Dumper Restoration updated
- 03/03/09 Dumper Parts and Hydraulic Plant Services added to Spares and Repairs page and Mart's new Powerfab pictures added
- 24/02/09 Link to Bearing Boys added to Spares & Repairs page
- 23/02/09 Dumper restoration updated. Peter's Uni Horse tractor added and Frank's Johnson 2HG dumper
- 17/02/09 Making progress on the dumper. Nearly ready to separate the two halves. Page updated.
- 13/02/09 Dumper restoration page now fully updated as work has started.
- 12/02/09 Finally I have finished converting the Johnson 2HG Dumper workshop manual into a PDF
- 12/02/09 Pictures of Hans Mantis digger added
- 11/02/09 John's Johnson Humper added to the Johnson Surviviors page.
- 05/02/09 A new page created for the Mitchell Cotts Environmental digger. Thanks to Matt for the pictures.
- 05/02/09 Vic's Benford ME130 pictures added
- 05/02/09 I have now set up a Google Group called diggers-dumper-plant so that users of this site can discuss their machines and share information about spares. You can access the group by clicking here. You need to join the group to participate as this helps prevent people spamming the message board. Its a quick and easy job to create a Google account if you don't already have one.
- 04/02/09 Second page of Johnson Photographs added
- 04/02/09 PDF of interesting Powerfab information added (thanks to Mark from France)
- 04/02/09 Mart's Powerfab powerpack and boom ram clamp pictures added
- 29/01/09 Standard Muscleman page updated with hydraulic information, Operator's Manual and Sales Literature kindly provided by Pat.
- 21/01/09 4 more PDF's added to Johnson Machinery Archive. Old photographs added
- 20/01/09 Johnson 1J and 2F dumper brochures added to PDF Archive (supplied by Alastair)
- 15/01/09 Major update of the Powerfab page with new pictures, information and press articles kindly provided by Nathan.
- 13/01/09 Link to Lula Machinery added. Benford dumper added.
- 08/01/09 Photo Gallery Page 12 updated with new information about Fowell dumpers from Shaun