Monster Digger Experience
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Overview
There’s heavy machinery, and then there’s the monster digger – 22 tonnes of mighty digging power and yours, for 90 minutes, with this Monster Digger Experience at the ever-popular Diggerland.
You’ll get behind the controls of a massive Komatsu PC210 Hydraulic Excavator to try your hand at working one of the biggest pieces of machinery a novice can experience. With a bucket that could fill over seven bathtubs and over nearly ten metres tall at full stretch you’ve never driven anything like it, though you’ll have an instructor with you at all times to help you get the hang of this giant engine.
It’s more challenging than it looks, so this’ll really put your skills and judgements to the test. If the other great machines around at Diggerland just aren’t quite hitting the spot then this Monster Digger Experience should be right up your street, so do your best to master digging pits, filling in holes and moving massive buckets of mud!
- SKU
- PDIGM1
- Locations
- 3 in the UK
- People
- For 1
- Validity
- 12 Months
- Rating
- 4.8 (15)
What's Included
- Safety briefing and instruction from an expert tutor
- 90 minutes hand-on experience with a Komatsu PC210 Hydraulic Excavator
- Test your skills at excavating pits, filling in holes and moving around giant buckets of mud
- Experience gift pack including personalised voucher and message card
What happens on the day?
On arrival at your chosen Diggerland location you’ll be granted admission to the theme park to make your way to the Komatsu PC210 Excavator’s enclosure. You’ll be greeted by your instructor and given a briefing on safety and the controls before climbing into the cabin to continue your 90 minute one-to-one experience.
It’ll be like a heavy machinery ballet, as you work all of the controls in tandem to make holes, fill them, and move around huge buckets of mud, soil and more than a few very confused worms.
Participant guidelines
- Minimum age: 17
- Sufferers of epilepsy and any other medical condition which prohibits driving are not able to take part in this activity
- Bring 1 spectator free of charge, if the park is open to the public on your event date then the participant and spectators can use the rides and drives in the park during the day
- The experience content, equipment used and restrictions may vary
Availability
The experience must be pre-booked and runs from February to October seven days a week subject to availability.
We recommend you book at least two weeks in advance to ensure a date is available. All bookings are subject to availability.
Please allow approximately 1 hour 30 minutes for the full experience. Please allow additional time if you wish to use the rides and drives at Diggerland before and/or after your experience, subject to the park opening days and times.
What about insurance?
The centres contracted with us hold public liability insurance. We also hold contingency liability cover. You will not be liable for accidental damage to equipment, except where damage has been caused as a result of recklessness or wilful negligence.
Please ensure you are familiar with the terms and conditions of the experience.
How it works
Customer Reviews
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David
20/10/2020
What an Experience
Digger land Kent. We were the only ones in the park and Dave the instructor could not have made us more welcome. Just a great experience, would recommend to anyone looking for a challenge while in safe hands
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Phil
21/09/2020
Gold rush experience!
Really good experience, got to drive and operate the excavator, digging holes and making a mess. They pretty much let you loose with it once they know you’re safe and know what you’re doing
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Tom
31/08/2020
Highly Recommended
A Great experience with Top Equipment, Very Friendly and Informative staff. Just when I thought I had the hang of it, it was surprisingly easy to dig, but harder to keep the same level of trench or flatten thereafter, when you need to use both controls a little each way at a time. Thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you!
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David
23/02/2020
Great day out
It was a very wet and windy day but that didn’t matter. Once I had been shown the controls and left to have fun, I didn’t notice the weather. People welcoming and friendly, clearly know what they are doing. All very helpful, couldn’t do enough for me. More fun than I was expecting, equipment new and clean. Would recommend highly to anyone who needs a’boys toys’ experience, girls and boys
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Jess
13/09/2019
My husband didn't stop smiling all day.
I bought my husband a monster digger experience. It was fantastic, Jordan his instructor was very good and soon had my husband digging. He even took the time to chat to me while I waited. All the staff that we encountered couldn't have been more pleasant and helpful.
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Steph J
12/08/2019
Possibly the best 90 minutes of my life
I had the Monster Digger Experience, booked at York Diggerland and honestly my cheeks ached from smiling so much. I was expecting to turn up and just have a big pile of dirt to dig in... well at first I did just that, but then you get to move it!! Actually drive the massive digger around like a tank! Just brilliant.
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Chris K Wood
04/08/2019
Great muddy experience
Fantastic welcome and great experience
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Bruce
12/08/2018
Great fun 👍
Excellent experience
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Pat
22/04/2018
Great fun!
A great day out - good and clear instructions from Steve and Brad (thanks guys) resulted in a very happy experience. Thanks!
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michael
04/06/2017
a good day out
We had all had a good day, kids and adults alike, all the staff were really nice and friendly and very helpful. I would really recommend diggerland.
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Tony
24/04/2017
Much Better Than Expected
I had a one-on-one tutor the entire time, I got longer than planned, the experience was carried out in a private and totally suitable location, in fact the whole package was better than I expected and was a really great Christmas present for me.
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GD
16/04/2017
Diggerland
Much more fun than I thought it might be. Good instructor (thanks, Jake) and plenty of time to do some serious earth moving with the big Komatsu. :-) Your 2 guests get in as part of the price and mine enjoyed using the other, smaller machines.
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Bob
04/10/2019
Monster Digger
A very enjoyable session with plenty of time to get to know the machine. Clear and easily understood instructions from an experienced operator. Care is needed when getting on and particularly off the machine. I fell in the mud on the way down; fortunately no injury occurred!
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michele
22/04/2019
monster digger
Really good fun mainly left to enjoy it which was great Thank you Park Manager for making it good fun & interesting
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Klaus Diederichs
01/05/2017
Diggerland Monster Digger
This was a gift of my children to fullfill a childhood dream to operate a digger. Although I was the only one to drive the digger, it was a family outing to be experienced together with my 3 children watching me operating the digger. The experience voucher included two spectators. I paid extra for the 3rd on site we were however told that there is no possibility to watch the digging as it is away from the spectator area and there are no cars available to take the spectators to the digging area.
Locations
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North East
- Durham, County Durham
South East
- Strood, Kent
Yorkshire and Humber
- Castleford, West Yorkshire