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digger driving
Mr Whippy - 8/9/08 at 07:41 AM

one other question...

anyone here become a professional digger operator like large excavators and knows how to go about becoming one?

yeah I know that's not car related either

blakep82 - 8/9/08 at 07:46 AM

ooh, i want to do that too!

ecosse - 8/9/08 at 07:47 AM

Yeh...did it for years.
Loads of companies offer training courses, just google "360 excavator training" and you should find lots, you then go do the training, get the certificate, and tell lots of lie's about how long you have been doing it in order to get a job

Cheers

Alex

Mr Whippy - 8/9/08 at 08:18 AM

quote:
Originally posted by ecosse
Yeh...did it for years.
Loads of companies offer training courses, just google "360 excavator training" and you should find lots, you then go do the training, get the certificate, and tell lots of lie's about how long you have been doing it in order to get a job

Alex



great thanks for that, just what I was after. Been using my own one & hired machines for about five years and now folk are commenting I should be doing it for a living, starting too agree with them as I don't feel I'm really cut out for office work

I'll have a look at that site when I get home, cheers

mangogrooveworkshop - 8/9/08 at 09:10 AM

The pay is PISH up here in Scotland. My mates are muck shifters and they work scary hours to make up the pay from I and H broons

r3nuf - 8/9/08 at 09:29 AM

Running a Demolition company down in sunny Suffolk, with a fleet of 360's. i can tell you its a pain the ar$e getting and keeping your tickets.

Even my most experienced guys e.g. 20 years+ operating plant, have to maintain work logs, attend bi annual h& s touch screen tests and be assessed on site regularly.

The usual places for us to deal with training and assessments are the CITB and NDTG.

Money for my plant operators is fairly good, with the majority of them earning 25k - 30k depending on overtime worked.

U2U me if you want any more specific info, i can get my training admin to advise you.

Cheers

Gary

pewe - 8/9/08 at 10:22 AM

"I don't feel I'm really cut out for office work "
Is that on the basis that the new job doesn't have lots of nubile young ladies prancing about?
I think we should be told!
Cheers, Pewe

ecosse - 8/9/08 at 10:50 AM

quote:
Originally posted by mangogrooveworkshop
The pay is PISH up here in Scotland. My mates are muck shifters and they work scary hours to make up the pay from I and H broons


You can make good money, but as said ^^^ lot's of OT hours required, which is why I gave it up eventually

Cheers

Alex
PS
Not sure if it still the case, but I always made better money on a duck than on tracked machines, and better again running scrapers/graders

Liam - 8/9/08 at 08:59 PM

I got a Junior Digger Driver certificate from Diggerland near Newcastle. Might be able to get some work with that?

Liam