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Bruno from BGL Solutions has worked with Digga Attachments for a long time, take a look at which attachments he uses for his Landscaping business and find out why the Digga Power Rake is his favourite tool: “I’ve been involved in Landscaping at an early age back in Portugal, where I grew up, and always used to work with Digga attachments there too. When I moved to Australia in 2008, I started my business BGL Solutions in Katanning WA as a garden maintenance business. As we grew over the years, we started buying more and more machinery and equipment for landscaping. Today the business has grown to a reasonable size with a mini loader, an excavator, a skid steer loader and big industrial mowers. The Digga Attachments that we own are the Digga Power Rake for our skid steer as well as 250mm, 600mm, and 900mm augers, a bucket broom, a stump grinder and a trencher for our mini loader. The first attachment I purchased for BGL Solutions was a Digga Stump Grinder. I’ve been ...

Are you having trouble drilling in hard rock? We can help you out with some tips to make your job easier.. and more efficient! Without damaging your drillhead or wearparts. Let us explain why rock drilling may cause difficulties and issues when not carried our correctly: When drilling rock or frost for extended periods of time, air is trapped in the hole creating an oven effect. The trapped temperature and friction causes the wearparts and pilot to heat up to an extreme temperature, causing them to melt. It will damage the drilling head and can result in the face of the rock to 'glaze over' and become an even harder surface. This is why we recommend that you periodically remove the auger from the hole to allow fresh air back in the hole every 5 minutes. This means - stop drilling and bring the auger head to the surface to allow air into the hole. Below is an example of an auger, which was left down the hole for too long. While it may seem excessive to have to bring ...

Save this EOFY with Digga and the ATO’s $20k instant asset write off. Who could benefit: You’re an Australian business with a turnover of less than $10million/ year and, You purchase eligible assets that cost less than $20,000 before the 30th June 2018 You could save thousands this EOFY. If you’re working in earthmoving, agriculture, landscaping, screw piling or general earthworks you could purchase any Digga machinery attachment with a value less than $20k and benefit from the ATO’s instant asset write off provision. You can write-off as many individual items as you like, provided they are less than $20,000 and you claim the deduction through your tax return, in the year the asset was first used or installed ready for use. What are you waiting for? View the Digga range of machinery attachments here . For full terms and conditions visit the ATO's website .  It is important for you to seek professional tax advice from a licensed agent before you make any fina...

If you're servicing or completing regular maintenance on your Digga machinery attachments, you may need to replace parts and components to keep your attachment. Our new spare parts section is easy to access and straightforward to use: Find your attachment Select your required part  Get a quote from Digga Visit our new spare parts section on the website here: www.digga.com/service-spares Please note that only our current machinery attachments of our core products are currently listed. Updates are being made weekly to keep the system up to date. Easily identify your parts. With exploded view diagrams of all our machinery attachments, it is easy for you to identify the parts and components of our attachments. Each part and component is highlighted by a reference number so that you can pinpoint exactly what you require. Australian manufacturing. At Digga Australia, we manufacture our machinery attachments right here in Brisbane, Queensland. We have a high volu...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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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...

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...

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!”