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Operated Mini Digger Services in Dorset

Over 40 years’ experience providing operated mini digger services across Weymouth and surrounding Dorset areas. Equipped with compact machinery and specialist attachments, ideal for small groundwork and excavation jobs.

Experience You Can Trust Since 1984

Mini Excavator Services was founded by Henry Hanwell in 1984 after many years working in the groundwork industry. Specialising in compact machinery, Henry recognised the need for excavators that could access tight spaces — ideal for renovation projects, gardens, and restricted sites where larger machines simply cannot reach.

Today, the business operates as a reliable owner-operator service, focusing on smaller excavation and groundwork tasks across Weymouth and the surrounding Dorset area. With over 40 years of hands-on experience, Henry provides a personal, practical approach to each job.

Operating either a 1-tonne mini digger or a versatile 3-tonne mini digger with a wide range of specialist attachments, services include trenching, site preparation, garden clearance, post holes, breaking out concrete, root removal, material handling, and other machine-based tasks.

Mini Excavator Services focuses purely on operated machine work — ideal for small projects where experience, precision, and access are key.

Operated Mini Digger Work Across Dorset

Mini Excavator Services provides an owner-operated mini digger service for a wide range of small excavation and site work. Ideal for jobs where access is tight or a full groundwork contractor is not required.

Typical work includes:

  • Ground clearance and site preparation
  • Digging, levelling and grading
  • Trenching for drains, water, electric, telecoms and other services
  • Root removal and breaking out small areas of concrete
  • Post hole drilling
  • Garden and landscape groundwork
  • Ditch clearing and drainage work
  • Material handling and loading
  • Screw pile installation
  • General machine work for builders and homeowners

All work is carried out using a mini digger with a range of specialist attachments, allowing many tasks to be completed efficiently with minimal disruption.

ZX8
1-Tonne Mini Excavator (750 mm wide)

A compact machine ideal for tight access areas. The Hitachi ZX8 weighs around 900 kg and can narrow to just 750 mm, allowing it to pass through gateways, narrow paths, and restricted spaces where larger machines cannot reach.

Despite its small size, it is capable of a surprising amount of work and is perfect for garden projects, internal floor reduction, trenching, and other light excavation tasks.

EX30
3-Tonne Mini Excavator (1700mm wide)

The main workhorse for most jobs, this versatile 3-tonne machine provides greater digging power and reach while still being compact enough for domestic sites and restricted access areas.

Equipped with a wide range of specialist attachments, it can handle tasks such as trenching, site preparation, breaking concrete, root removal, lifting materials, and general excavation work.

Attachments & Equipment

A wide range of specialist attachments allows the mini digger to tackle many different tasks efficiently — from breaking concrete and removing roots to drilling post holes, lifting materials, and clearing sites. This versatility means many jobs can be completed quickly with minimal disruption.

Riddle Bucket

Sieves topsoil, hardcore or stone for building

Riddle Bucket

Sieves topsoil, hardcore or stone for building

Riddle Bucket

Sieves topsoil, hardcore or stone for building

Riddle Bucket

Sieves topsoil, hardcore or stone for building

Riddle Bucket

Sieves topsoil, hardcore or stone for building

Riddle Bucket

Sieves topsoil, hardcore or stone for building

Contact Us

9 Emmadale Rd, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 0LA

07785 557 704

henry@miniex.co.uk