With digger hire and mini digger hire enjoying increasing popularity amongst professional contractors and DIY enthusiasts, the demand for excavator attachment hire is seeing an unprecedented rise.
Excavator attachments harness the power of an excavator to carry-out specific tasks such as digging trenches, breaking rock, or drilling holes for pipes or posts. There is an ever-growing range of excavator attachments available, many you may never have even thought of. If you are already considering hiring a digger to carry out a project, why not find out all of the possibilities that different types of digger attachments have to offer?
At Drogheda Hire and Sales we offer an ever-increasing inventory of attachments for excavators available for hire from our depots in Drogheda and Dublin. After a hefty investment, we are pleased to be able to offer a truly varied range of new excavator attachments that can be used with any of our excavators, up to 21 T. Whether you are working in construction, DIY, farming, forestry, gardening or infrastructure, there is an excavator attachment that is suitable for your specific needs.
Types of excavator attachments
Excavator attachments come in a variety of shapes and sizes, with a prime example being the excavator bucket. Excavator buckets are available in different widths, with or without teeth and each bucket type is suited to digging a different type of terrain, with sharp and narrow buckets suiting deep digging work and large, flat-edge buckets ideally being used for removing loose soil or gravel, or for ground levelling work. There are some lesser-known attachments for excavators that prove incredibly useful. In this blog post, we will take a look at the various excavator attachments that Drogheda Hire and Sales offers and how they can be used in different industries and sectors.
- Pallet Forks: Pallet forks are a truly useful attachment, allowing your digger to double as a forklift for moving pallets of building materials such as bricks, concrete blocks and timber. The pallet forks attach to the excavator and can lift heavy loads, reducing the need for manual labour and saving time on the job.
- Hedge Cutters: Hedge cutters are perfect for gardeners, landscapers and farmers. They are used to trim large areas of hedges and shrubs quickly and evenly, making them ideal for those who need to maintain large properties. Hedge cutters attach to the excavator and provide a safe and efficient way to trim hedges, without the need for ladders or scaffolding. 
- Timber Grabs: Timber grabs are a great ally for large plot clearances or for forestry work. They are used to grab and move large logs and timber.
- Tilting Grain Buckets: Tilting grain buckets are mainly used on farms, to move grain from one place to another, such as from a grain bin to a truck.
- Compactor Plates: Compactor plates are used for compacting soil, gravel and asphalt. Compactor plate digger attachments are extremely efficient, delivering great results over large areas in a short space of time.
- V-Shaped Drainage Buckets: V-shaped drainage buckets are used for digging foundations, trenches and drainage ditches. The V-shaped drainage bucket provides precision digging at depth, making it an ideal attachment for digging piping and cabling trenches.
- Rakes: Rakes attachments are mainly used for farming or gardening. They are used to rake leaves, grass and debris over large areas.
- Sweepers: Sweepers are ideal for anyone working in the infrastructure industry. They are used to sweep streets and sidewalks, making them ideal for municipalities and other organisations that need to maintain clean streets and sidewalks.
- Rock Breakers: Rock breakers are used to break rocks and concrete, making them ideal for demolition and excavation projects.
- Post Hole Borers: Post hole borers are ideal for anyone working in the construction, DIY or gardening industry. They are used to dig holes for fence posts, tree planting and other similar applications.
- Augers: Augers are used for digging holes for posts, poles, trees and other similar applications.
Save time and money with our digger attachment range
Drogheda Hire and Sales provides market-leading plant and tool hire solutions for commercial and residential projects of all sizes. Our new and improved range of excavator attachments provides our customers with the possibility of using one digger to carry out a multitude of different tasks, eliminating the need to hire a variety of different machines and tools. Our excavator attachments allow you to move materials, trim hedges, clean up debris, dig holes, break rocks or compact soil.
All of our attachments fit any digger, up to 21 T. We also stock a varied fleet of diggers, from ¾ T micro diggers though to 21 T tracked excavators.
If you have any questions about digger or mini digger attachment hire, why not get in touch with Drogheda Hire and Sales? With depots in Drogheda and Dublin, we have options available to suit every budget. Each of our diggers and mini diggers is regularly serviced and expertly maintained and our friendly staff are always on hand to discuss the best hire options for you.
If you’re looking for digger or digger attachment hire in Dublin, Co.Louth or the surrounding areas, call our Drogheda Depot on 0419 841 419 or our Dublin Depot on 01-9108757. Our friendly team will be delighted to help with your enquiry.