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by Nick Drew  |  Mon 01 Oct 2018

No substitute for starting them young (Blog Post Re-Visited)

Here is a great video featuring a youngster getting that all important experience from a young age operating his father’s Takeuchi mini excavator.

No substitute for starting them young (Blog Post Re-Visited)
Neil Grainger is well known for his Always Digging business in and around the Camberley area where he is often seen working on driveway and garden landscaping projects with his Takeuchi mini excavators. But Neil has his eye on the future of his business and is training up his digger mad son John in the time honoured fashion, teaching him all the tricks in the way so many of us learnt in the past. Apparently John takes up any opportunity to get behind the controls and as you will see from the following video he is honing his skills very nicely. For me personally and for many others from my era this is the only way to learn the required skills to become a good machine operator and it’s a real pity that more youngsters don’t get the chance to learn like this anymore due to today’s H&S regulations.
I think you will agree young John is a real credit to his dad and his family and I know he will have a bright future in the industry. A few years have passed since this video was made and it won't be much longer before John is working full time on the machines!  

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