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Talking Trade with Mary’s Cross Digging
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MARK and Arran Griffiths are a father and son team that run Mary’s Cross Digging, in Maleny and surrounds.
Where does the name come from?
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Before moving to the Maleny area one and a half years ago, Mark and Arran, ran the family farm in Kilcoy called ‘Mary’s Cross Farm’. The name originates from the farm where Mark was born in Eversley Cross, England, where a lady called Mary looked after Mark as an infant.
The Kilcoy farm coincidently was off of Mary Smokes Creek Road, hence the name. Mark started up his newest venture, helping other people with their property and gardening needs. It was this experience on a working farm that helped both Mark and Arran gain the skills to be able to do a wide variety of jobs with their
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1.5 tonne excavator and new Kubota BX26 80 compact tractor with 4 in 1 bucket attachment, and grass friendly tyres, perfect for moving soil or mulch etc. It is also fitted with a 5ft grass mowing deck.
With the new machine and Arran now onboard full-time, Mary’s Cross Digging can help you out anyday of the week with those jobs that would take weeks by hand and they can save all that back breaking work for a fair and reasonable fee.
As Arran says, “we are here to help save you the backache, handache and headache!”
From site clearing, trench digging, driveways, post holes and fencing, animal burial, stump removal and even larger landscaping often
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Certain work defined as 'building work' in the QBCC legislation may only be undertaken by licensed contractors or, if undertaken by unlicensed contractors, only to the value of $3,300. However, work falling outside of that definition may be performed by unlicensed contractors and is not subject to any value limit.
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To check whether a contractor holds a QBCC licence visit www.qbcc.qld.gov.au or call the QBCC on 1300
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