by Nick Drew | Thu 07 May 2026
7-Up for Tom Gardocki
One of the trailblazing tiltrotator owners in North America is celebrating over 7 years of running them.
Tom Gardocki who hails from the New Hampshire in the U.S. is the co-owner of New Era Excavation, but is probably most well known globally as “The Dirt Ninja” on social media, where he has had a presence for many years amassing a great following along the way.
Tom was in fact the very first customer in North America to invest in an Engcon tiltrotator and has been a staunch supporter of the concept ever since, and a well-deserved ambassador for the Swedish brand ever since.

I last had the pleasure of meeting Tom and an entourage of fellow American and Canadian end users and social media names at the Svenska Maskinmässan trade show in Stockholm, which is coming up again next month, when if memory serves me right, we were there as guests of Engcon Group, you can see Tom and the others in the photo below, how many social media famous faces can you see?

Today Tom’s operation is described as a small contractor, but in the video below he explains how having the right equipment, has helped his team deliver the work of much larger company’s and how the Engcon further improves efficiency, while reducing back breaking manual labour, making them more productive whatever the job site is.