RH Digger & Driver Hire is based just north of Andover - this is our home patch. We supply excavators from 1 to 14 tonnes and telehandlers, always with NPORS operators, from £320 plus VAT a day on weekly hire, and take on complete groundworks and earthworks jobs across the town and surrounding villages. Every price is on the rates page.
Plenty of hire firms list Andover in a service-area dropdown. We're based here, which means realistic short-notice cover, sensible transport and an operator who already knows the ground he's digging - which around Andover means chalk. Builders and contractors on Andover's sites get the same deal as everywhere else: RAMS, tickets and certificates before day one - see plant hire for contractors.
Most of the Andover area sits on Hampshire chalk downland, often capped with clay-with-flints. In practice: trenches hold their sides well, soakaways generally perform (chalk drains freely once you're through any clay cap), but you can hit hard chalk bands that punish an under-sized machine. Our 6t excavator with a ripper tooth handles them, and iDig 2D laser control keeps footings and drainage falls exact through variable ground. If you're on the clay caps - common on the higher ground towards the Bourne Valley - we'll tell you honestly whether a soakaway will work or whether you need a piped drainage solution.
Digger and driver hire by the day or week from 1 to 14 tonnes; complete groundworks and earthworks jobs priced as contracts - site preparation, footings, drainage, driveways and tracks; field and paddock drainage for the farms and liveries in the valleys; and operated telehandler support at harvest and on sites. Recent projects completed in and around Andover, Hungerford and Winchester.
Hurstbourne Tarrant, St Mary Bourne, Whitchurch, Vernham Dean, Ludgershall, Weyhill, Penton Mewsey, Abbotts Ann, Goodworth Clatford, Wherwell, Longparish and the Bourne and Test valleys. If you're within 20 minutes of Andover, you're in our first-priority patch.
From £320 plus VAT a day on weekly hire for a 1-tonne micro, £355 for a 3-tonne, £405 for the 6-tonne, up to £475 for a 14-tonne. All prices are on the rates page. Ask about transport when booking - it's free on selected machines.
Andover jobs are the easiest for us to slot in - usually within a week or two, sometimes days. Ring 07545 265075.
On Andover's chalk, usually yes; on clay-capped ground, often no. We'll give you a straight answer on site before you spend anything.
Yes - complete jobs priced from drawings or a site walk, from site preparation and footings to drainage and driveways. See groundworks and earthworks contracting.
Based just up the road. Ring Rory on 07545 265075 - if you're in or around Andover, he can usually look at the job in person within days.