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This weekend, Digga  Australia were awarded the 2017 category award for Manufacturing at the Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards. Digga took the annual category win for Manufacturing for the third time and became the only company in 22 years to win the same category three times. The Gold Coast Business Excellence awards launched in 1996 and honours businesses in the Gold Coast region who lead and shape specific industry sectors. The 2017 Manufacturing award recognises Digga’s ongoing commitment to providing the most innovative machinery attachments on the market with a dedication to local manufacture and teamwork. Following the devastating fire that occurred at the Digga Australia head office and factory just over 2 years ago, the award highlights the dedication of the team at Digga. Also known as the Diggaholics, the hard working team have rebuilt their workplace and the main manufacturing facility to be able to continue providing Australian made products...

In recent years Australian manufacturing has being said to be in decline with retailers, producers and end users opting for cheaper, foreign imported goods. Some of Australia’s largest brands are fighting cheap international ‘copycat’ brands and competition from low-cost competitors in China, India, Vietnam and Thailand has sent many Australian manufacturers into decline. Ford, General Motors Holden and Toyota have closed their Australian plants, costing many jobs at local component and accessory makers and suppliers. For Digga Australia, keeping Australian manufacturing alive and continually developing jobs and trades within Australia, is key in keeping customers loyal to the brand and pivotal in future success of the business. Following the devastating fire at the facility and head office in Queensland almost 2 years ago, the company could have easily turned to outsourcing manufacturing overseas. Instead the owner’s dedication to Australia manufacturing and keeping jobs loca...

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The Rotary Axe is the ultimate heavy duty attachment for clearing and shredding thick bush and scrub. When  Southern Tool + Equipment Co  customer John Hile was looking for a tool to help him clear and maintain 140 acres of land his property in Withcott stands on, we were confident the Rotary Axe was going to get the job done. Slashing similar products off the market, the Digga rotary axe is in a league of its own with the term ‘rotary axe’ uniquely describing the cutting action of the blades – the alternating bevels on the blades working like an axe. Key features of the Digga model include: 20mm thick, hardened reversible steel blades for added life A heavy duty fly wheel which gives smooth rotation while its weight maintains the blades momentum as they strike trees and brush to keep spinning and therefore cutting. 18 carbide grinding teeth are mounted below the fly wheel to grind tree stumps 10mm above ground level Weighing just under a tone the heavy duty design ...

David Savic of Savic Plant Hire recently called in to Digga HQ and chatted to us about his Digga tilting 4 in 1 Bucket and Cleana bucket broom. The Digga 4 in 1 bucket and Cleana bucket broom are Australian made and feature practical features to make light work of earth moving. David’s business offers plant hire to all walks of constructors and earth movers and believes being versatile for his customers if very important; just like supplying them with quality products that can get the job done. That’s why he chooses Digga Australia machinery attachments. David has been very happy with his Digga 4 in 1 tilting bucket and Bucket Broom which he regularly uses himself around the yard and on his own property. The Digga Tilting 4 in 1 Bucket – sometimes referred to as a 6 in 1 bucket allows him to get full radial control of the cutting angle while maintaining all the features of the standard 4 in 1 Digga bucket. He commented, “From the level gage at the back of the bucket to the vi...

The durable, strong and 100% Australian made Digga 4 in 1 bucket features a ‘wear plate standard’ hardened steel floor and comes complete with a heavy duty, fully welded grill to provide clear vision of bucket front edge. With cutting widths from 880mm to 2200mm, the Digga 4 in 1 bucket is available for mini loaders, skid steers and tractors. Models from 1450mm are available with optional reversible bolt on cutting blades which fit on all 3 edges of the bucket. As the side edges of your bucket will naturally wear faster, why replace the whole blade when you can just replace the worn sections? With the optional Digga reversible cutting blades for your 4 in 1, you can replace wear parts section by section saving you time and money. With our 7 day money back guarantee ou can put your trust in Digga 4 in 1 buckets. We're so confident in the quality and durability of our range, that if you try it and don't like we'll give you your money back! For more information and to re...

Tiah Selkrig is 'screwing' the stereotypes of gender roles in construction and proudly advertises her ‘very girly’ pink Digga screw anchor drive and matching pink excavator when on site! Wanting to show construction sites all over the Hunter Valley region that girls can do just as much as boys, Tiah decided she was going to raise the awareness of being a women in construction and painted her Digga drive pink to match the back of her excavator. Tiah works for AAA Down Under offering earth moving, civil construction and foundation services to the Hunter Valley region. AAA Down Under is her Dad’s business and she explained growing up around her father using earth moving machinery inspired her to become an operator just like him. Today she operates her excavator with the Digga MD190 screw anchor drive to install screw piles and said, “I love the Digga drive, it’s the best thing I’ve got!” Tiah decided to custom paint her Digga MD190 screw anchor drive ‘ Breast Cancer Pi...

Adrian Eagan, aka Baldy has been drilling in one form or another all his working life. Working for one of Queensland largest earthmovers L&D Earthmoving , we wanted to hear what he makes of the Digga drives he puts to work every day.   L&D Earthmoving were established in 1954 and Baldy has been with them for the last 25 years explaining that the company service a mix of commercial and domestic customers “from backyard bobs to major infrastructures – there is virtually no where we can’t service!” Covering all of South East Queensland working in light dusty sands and clay to solid blue metal Baldy really puts his drives through their paces. “I run a few 4.5 or 6 tonne combos for all our everyday work and light duty drilling with the Digga PD3. Then I operate an 18 tonne excavator with a 2 speed Digga PD30.” The Digga PD30 is an upgrade from the PD18 Baldy used to operate but he admits “after 8 years of heavy work, I finally managed to break the PD18…”  Of ...

Last night Digga Australia were awarded the 2017 Dermot McManus Award for Innovation at the Queensland Export Awards. The Dermot McManus Award is one of the 4 major awards handed out on the night and recognises exporters that have demonstrated innovative solutions in their business field through strategy, production, and processes. Digga CEO Suzie Wright commented: The award is a reflection on everybody at Digga and the hard work each and every one of the team put in. Without the hard work of all branches and divisions this recognition would not be possible. Congratulations to everyone and well done!

Coming from a background of Australian small business, helical piling experts Brodie and Rob Houghton believe that supporting Australian manufacturing, skills and ingenuity should be top of the list when selecting new machinery attachments. Brodie and Rob Houghton have over 25 years of experience in small business development, servicing specialist engineering and construction industry niches, including extensive experience in the Residential, Civil and Commercial Construction disciplines. Brodie and Rob are now the Directors of Solidity Pty Ltd , specialists in Helical Pile manufacture and installation. Solidity service the entire state of Victoria, with emphasis on areas with swampy or sandy foundations, where helical piling provides significant economic and structural benefits over the concrete bored pile equivalent. The Solidity team operate using a number of different machinery platforms, and have recently purchased a new 5.5T excavator. Each of their excavators is matched ...

The Digga 4 in 1 bucket is a practical solution to tackle many applications in construction and agricultural job sites. Ace Rental  is an equipment rental company based in South East Queensland. They supply a range of backhoes, graders, excavators and skid steer loaders with earth moving attachments to the Gold Coast, Brisbane and all across the south east Queensland region to a mix of customers from different industry sectors. Company founder and Managing Director Mick Sheldon has been in the earth moving industry for over 31 years and opened Ace rentals in March 2003. Mick has built up his business reputation by supplying quality earth moving machinery equipment to a demanding work sector. To continue to meet his customer needs, the business regularly upgrade and replace their machinery with new models and when Ace Rentals purchase any new machine, they often come direct from the dealer with buckets and other attachments already fitted. Over the 15 years that Ace Rental...

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Steve Hassett, Foundation Technologies Australia business owner and co-founder used his first Digga auger drive unit in January 2017 and since then he’s never looked back; making a commitment to Digga and their Australian manufacturing. Starting off with just one machine in 2012, Foundation Technologies now have six machines ranging from 1.7 – 13 tonne excavators, specialising in residential screw piling. For the last five years Steve has been using alternative machinery attachment brands but following his success with his first Digga purchase earlier this year he has decided to change all of his auger drives over to Digga Machinery Attachments . Steve has been extremely impressed with the technology the Digga auger drives offer, particularly the 2 speed units (which he now owns 2 of) and he says it’s something that the rest of the market doesn’t offer, “our Digga PD12 on the 3.5T Yanmar gives us up to 9000nm of output torque with the opportunity to help out our cl...

With much of Queensland already at very high risk on the fire danger ratings, slashing overgrown vegetation, mowing grasses and trimming back low-lying branches is imperative at this time of year. While back burning is the preferred method of bushfire prevention, it is not always possible and reducing the fuel for fire is critical in helping keep communities safe, making bushfires easier to control and helping to prevent the spread to residential areas. Digga have a range of forestry and vegetation management attachments ideal for use in minimizing the risk of fire hazard. Built for slashing and clearing grasslands and low level shrubbery the Digga Slasher is the introductory offering in the Digga range of forestry and vegetation management attachments and is perfect for smaller property maintenance, clearing scrub, tidying fence lines, general landscaping, roadway maintenance and parks maintenance. Available to suit mini loaders, skid steers, excavators and tractors the Dig...

Offering practical solutions for our customers is imperative for Digga and our range of machinery attachments. Proving just that is Mitch Wetton from Summit Landscapes. The local family owned and operated business working in the Smeaton Grange and Narellan areas of NSW specialise in construction landscaping, concreting and all excavation/ bulk earthworks. In the last 15 years Mitch has grown to love Digga Machinery Attachments . He had been using a range of Digga attachments through rental companies for several years but felt it was important to invest in his own attachments following successes servicing both small and large builders on a residential and commercial scale. Mitch purchased his first Digga attachment almost 10 years ago and hasn’t looked back since, with his range of Digga attachments growing annually! He regularly uses his Digga Auger Drive units with rock combo and dedicated rock augers to drill holes for structural piers in concrete and post holes for ret...

A man who spent years trying to break Digga screw anchor drive units now says he can’t run his business without them. Geoff Taunton runs Gold Coast Screw Piers , a Queensland-based deep foundation system provider servicing more than 200 clients from Coffs Harbour to Cairns. Explaining the history of his business, Geoff told us: "Back when Digga was still in the R&D phase they would give me a new test auger drive unit and tell me to go and break it. Installing screw piers and bored piers involves putting extreme vertical force on the piece of machinery attachment. It’s extremely harsh on the equipment, so it was really an ideal testing ground for the drive units. I would break the drive and tell Digga exactly what I was doing and what pressure it was under when it broke. They would use that information to improve the design, then give me a new one to break and the process would start again. These days it’s pretty hard to break a Digga screw anchor drive. For such a sev...

Digga's new excavator cradle hitch has been designed to make safe manoeuvring around work sites even easier and provide a simpler connection to Digga augers and screw piles. The double pin hitch with drive unit cradle makes it ideal for use in all ground conditions giving you better control when moving from hole to hole. Available with loose pin or fixed pin options. Suitable for use with PD3-PD50 drive models. For more information visit www.digga.com 

Digga Australia are proud to announce that they have been announced winners of the Manufacturing award at the August Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards! The Gold Coast Business Award honours businesses on the Gold Coast who lead and shape the future in the different industry sectors.  The award demonstrates the hard work and dedication the team at Digga put in day in, day out in achieving operational excellence, innovation and success. Born and raised on the Gold Coast, Digga CEO Suzie Wright said, “We are honoured by this recognition, and fiercely proud to be a Gold Coast manufacturing business supplying products around the world ... It is testament to the outstanding team of people - the 'Diggaholics' who make our goals reality!" Digga are now in the running to win the Gold Coast Business of the Year which will be announced later in the year.

What is a screw pile? A screw pile is also known as a helical pile, helical anchor, helix pier, screw anchor, helical pier, torque pile and/ or torque anchor. What is screw piling?  In unstable grounds when a traditional cast-in-place foundation system is not possible, screw piling offers a foundation support system for an ever increasing number of applications. Screw piling is the application of a screw pile into the ground. A screw pile is a factory manufactured steel foundation system consisting of a central rod with one or more helix shaped blade plates and a bracket at the end that allows attachment to a structure. The tip is cut on an angle to allow it to penetrate the ground as a pilot. The pile has 'flights' which are flat in pitch to help the pile pull itself into the ground with minimum downforce applied. With the use of an excavator and a hydraulic screw anchor drive motor attached, the screw pile is screwed into the ground to the desired compression torque...

Based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Rusin Concrete Construction have been offering a wide range of concrete services for commercial and residential projects for the last 20 years. Earlier this year they were commissioned to excavate grade beams for a multi-unit housing project in Colorado Springs. Project Manager, Tyler Orr explained, “The total structure square footage for the slab on grade was approximately 11612sq m. Grade beams were 300mm wide and 900mm deep below the slab and were the structural component of the project in lieu of typical foundation walls. We trenched about 14km by the end of the project and shattered expectations with the excavation speed.” Rusin purchased the Digga Bigfoot XD 1200 trencher at the World of Concrete convention in Las Vegas especially for the project. It was a bit of a gamble as they had never used a Digga trencher for such an application before, typically digging with a mini excavator. However, all models in the Digga Bigfoot XD trencher...

We know that our customers are busy working long hours in often remote locations so our focus at Digga is to work closely with them to understand their needs and requirements, ensuring we supply a high quality range of machinery attachments with the best sales and service possible, going over and above. For one customer in particular, Phil Shovlin of Shovlin Plant Hire Australia time is always of the essence so when he takes time out to write an email to our head office thanking staff for their exceptional service, we know he means business! Offering specialist plant hire to the railway, mining and construction industries across the east coast of Australia, Shovlin Plant Hire recently purchased a 900mm Digga Rock Auger to fit to their 128 Komatsu Excavator for drilling work on the Roma Street railway. Phil told us “The rock augers and core barrel drills worked a treat,” and as a result of their success at Roma Street have bagged further work from their international clie...

The cutting teeth & pilot on any auger are wear parts and you can increase the life of them with the help of Digga's best practice tips. The wear life of a tooth or pilot is undefinable. They will be affected by how often they are used, how they are looked after and the ground conditions they are being used in. For example, in non-fracturable ground where the rock is reduced to a powder; the powder is likely to get caught in and around the cutting head and, acting like a sand paper, will wear away both the pocket and the tooth. In hard ground conditions such as rock over heating within the hole can cause the ground to glaze over. The heat will polish the rock making it harder and have a greater influence on the wear of your cutting heads. To assist with peak performance and longevity of the wear parts there are a few procedures that can be carried out that will help prolong the life of wear parts and increase drilling efficiency. To help increase the life of your wear...

The best way to remove spoil from your auger is to use a forward, stop, forward, stop control pattern until all the spoil is totally removed. When you have been drilling with your auger it may seem like a good idea to alternate the drive from forward to reverse to clear the auger of spoil once lifted out of the hole but, it can cause torque related stress on the drive gearbox which will lead to premature failure. If you have one of our 2-speed drive units try using the high-speed mode to flick the spoil off the auger. When you are drilling in clay you could also try wetting the auger or spray some watered down detergent on the flights before drilling. This will help the clay slide off of the unit.  For more information on the Digga drive range check out the following blog posts:  Digga tips - best practice to increase the life of your wear parts Digga tips - when to rotate picks and change the teeth in your auger Maintenance for your Digga auger drive ...

Screw piling comes with a range of advantages and their application continues to grow as we continue to build and develop marginal sites; from the instant foundations of manufactured homes and pre-engineered metal buildings to axial compression and lateral tension load supports. There are a number of benefits to screw piling over traditional methods and we often here industry experts saying helical piling is more efficient and better for the environment. Here we dig a little bit deeper to look at some of the pros to screw piling. Screw piling is quick to install - providing the job brief has clearly defined the parameters effectively, screw piling can be completed efficiently. There is no requirement for cement, waiting on setting times or digging out the ground, so you can move straight onto the next one without having to hang about. Measuring and recording - one of the most important features of screw piling is the ability to verify the load capacity during the installation ...

Sydney wide DNA Contract Services are a well-established company specialising in excavations, earthworks, haulage and sediment control and trusted by some of Australia’s biggest builders. They were contracted as part of a project with Channel 7’s Better Homes and Gardens to drill piers for a granny flat behind a house in Blacktown, NSW and decided the Digga PD6 Auger Drive unit was the tool for the job. Attached to their 5.5 tonne Hitachi excavator they were never going to have any problems and DNA told us the PD6 drilled through with ease. Alex Vella of DNA Contract Services commented: “I have been using Digga now for 2 years and will continue to do so. DNA have used many other products on the market but find Digga to produce plenty of power at an affordable cost. In my opinion, Digga products give the best bang for buck!”

Now you can get even more attachment options for your euro hitch tractors with Digga's new adapter frame for euro hitch tractors. Designed to take the headache out of needing different attachments for your skid steers and tractors, our new euro hitch adaptor frame allows you to attach all your multi fit skid steer attachments to your Euro hitch tractor. For more information please contact your local Digga dealer or check out this flyer  www.digga.com