RH Digger & Driver Hire is based at Vernham Dean, about 15 minutes north of Andover — this is our home patch. We supply 3 and 6-tonne laser-guided Volvo excavators and a telehandler, always with an NPORS operator, from £403.50 plus VAT a day, and take on full groundworks, drainage and driveway jobs across the town and surrounding villages.
Plenty of hire firms list Andover in a service-area dropdown. Our machines live here. Being 15 minutes out means realistic short-notice cover and an operator who already knows the ground he's digging — which around Andover means chalk.
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 6-tonne Volvo EC55C with a ripper tooth handles them; the iDig 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; groundworks for extensions and outbuildings; foundations and footings; driveways; 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.
Vernham Dean, Hurstbourne Tarrant, St Mary Bourne, Whitchurch, 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 £403.50 plus VAT a day for our 3-tonne Volvo with operator, £486 plus VAT for the 6-tonne. 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, 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.
Based up the road in Vernham Dean. Ring Rory on 07545 265075 — if you're in or around Andover, he can usually look at the job in person within days.