What type of digger did you have? We call them excavators over here.
It was A jcb 801.5 the older more squared off shape with the glazed cab, I bought it ridiculously cheap off my cousin who was in the same line of work as me but was giving it up as business was poor and he owed money to every builders merchant in the area so even if he did get any work he couldn't get any materials unless he paid his debts so he was kind of desperate.
It was a great machine but made us soft and reluctant to take on jobs where We couldn't get the digger in haha, reliability was awesome it had a 3 cylinder Perkins Diesel engine which would run faultless all day it just was a right pain to bleed if it ran out of diesel.
Of the few things I've loved in life that little digger was up there near the top haha I miss it still today mate as daft as that sounds