“I won that [regionals] so I’m supposedly the number one operator in the top of the south,” he said. Smith will represent the top of the south at the Civil Contractors New Zealand (CCNZ) CablePrice National Excavator Operator Competition from March 19 to 20 in Feilding. Supplied Smith during the regional excavator competition in Nelson in November. He would go head-to-head against 11 other excavator operators from different regions in a series of challenges at the Central Districts Field Days at Manfeild Park. “I drive diggers every day, so that’s been my practice, it is what it is really,” Smith said.