Kids dig in the dirt with their hands while waiting in line to dig in the dirt with an excavator during Eagle Mount's Digger Days in Belgrade on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022.

Rows of construction workers show kids how to use excavators in a roped off area at Digger Days on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021, in Belgrade. Rachel Leathe/Chronicle ...

It’s the excavator committing vehicle-on-vehicle crime above—the heaviest digger on offer, at 53,440 pounds, but even the relatively lightweight wheel loader comes in at 24,736 pounds so you ...

The Mini Diggers are set up like carnival games where operators knock over bowling pins, dig for buried treasure or pluck a duck decoy out of a pond with the boom arm of a 4,000-pound excavator.

For $650, visitors spend a half hour using a 15-ton excavator to smash a perfectly good car to smithereens. “It’s quite therapeutic for a lot of people,” Mumm said.

Tucker Canfield, 3, plays in the sand at Little Diggers play place for kids 7 and younger at 9442 Waterfront Drive in West Chester Township. There are toy excavators, dumps trucks and more to play ...