{"id":3713,"date":"2020-04-16T12:29:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T12:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/molsongroup.co.uk\/equipment\/keeping-the-kids-busy-during-lockdown-kobelco-style\/"},"modified":"2020-04-16T12:29:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T12:29:33","slug":"keeping-the-kids-busy-during-lockdown-kobelco-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/molsongroup.com\/equipment\/keeping-the-kids-busy-during-lockdown-kobelco-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the kids busy during lockdown, Kobelco Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pembrokeshire based groundworks company owner Ashley Harden has\nput his dirt shaping skills and trusty Kobelco mini excavator to use by\nconverting the back garden of his family home into an off-road dirt track to\nkeep his young family entertained through the COVID-19 lockdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashley and his wife Gemma are proud parents of three \u201cenergetic\u201d\nyoung boys &#8211; William, Oliver and Freddie. Like all parents during the\nCoronavirus lockdown, battling with the trials and tribulations of home\nschooling and having enough activities to keep the kids entertained is a\nconstant challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gemma said \u201cWe have been following all the government guidelines\nand staying home. It has been great to get all this extra time with our boys\nbut keeping them entertained without venturing out for more than our one family\nwalk a day is challenging. We have been baking, facetime calls and arts and\ncraft activities alongside their home schooling \u2013 but these boys need more than\nthat to wear them out! Ash has always been one to crack on when a job needs\ndoing, but when he told me about his plans, I didn\u2019t expect the next morning\nfor two loads of topsoil to have appeared in our back garden!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using some of the equipment from his groundworks and plant hire\nbusiness, including the Kobelco SK17SR-3 cabbed excavator supplied by Molson\nCompact Equipment, Ashley used his digger driving skills to shape the freshly\ndelivered soil into a series of twists, turns, jumps and bumps that will keep\nthe boys entertained well past the lockdown period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashley said; \u201cOn my rare weekends off, the boys and I love to go\nquad bike racing all over the country, so this just seemed like the natural\nthing to do. So far, they have been racing around and trying to beat each\nother\u2019s times on their mini quads, mountain bikes and anything else they can\nget to go around the track. Even the dog has been having a run around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Kobelco from Molson was the perfect tool for the job \u2013\nsmall enough to get in our back garden without having to remove any fencing but\nplenty of power to quickly move and shape the 30 odd tonnes of soil before the\nboy\u2019s excitement grew beyond control\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gemma went on to say \u201cAlthough he says he has done this for the\nkids, we all know he did it for the biggest kid in the house really\u201d. Ashley\ncelebrated his 30th birthday just after he completed the track, allowing him to\nenjoy \u201ca day at the races\u201d with all the family, without leaving home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pembrokeshire based groundworks company owner Ashley Harden has put his dirt shaping skills and trusty Kobelco mini excavator to use by converting the back garden of his family home into an off-road dirt track to keep his young family entertained through the COVID-19 lockdown. 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