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11 Feb 2009
Digging for compliments
Supplier: Kubota (U.K.) Limited
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Boughton House, a stately home near Kettering in the East Midlands, has acquired a Kubota mini excavator.
The house, described as the 'English Versailles', is the Northamptonshire home of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry and administered by The Living Landscape Trust.
The 2.6 tonne Kubota KX61-3 is used for general maintenance duties in the 12,000 acre park, which is Grade One listed in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. It features a spread of lawns, lakes, waterways, woods and historic avenues of trees.
The Kubota also works on the estate's other properties in the area which include six villages and seven farms, all within a three mile radius of Boughton House. In all there are 200 estate-owned houses plus commercial properties, many of them converted barns.
The KX61-3 was bought by Buccleuch Building Services, the estate's internal construction company, from local Kubota dealer, Shellplant, and has a 4270 mm long arm fitted as standard to provide a maximum dig depth of 3870mm. The digging force of the bucket is 21.5 kN (2190 kgf).
The machine was supplied with 9, 12 and 24in digging buckets, a ditching bucket for grading and a Quick Hitch device for the rapid changeover of attachments.
As well as digging out for drainage work, preparing the footings for building extensions and new builds, and digging post holes, it handles general site clearance and has also assisted with the ongoing restoration work to the park's historic four-mile-long perimeter brick wall.
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Supplier: Kubota (U.K.) Limited
Thame Oxfordshire UK
Formed in 1979 and based at Thame, Oxfordshire, Kubota (UK) Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Kubota Corporation, established in 1890 in Osaka, Japan.
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www.kubota.co.uk
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