Cost of hiring person and digger

moneyistooshorttomention

How much would be reasonable to hire someone and their mini-digger for, say, half a day please?

phill99

If you rang up a couple of plant hire companies and asked them the same question, you would get a definitive answer.

moneyistooshorttomention

Anyone please, ie with an idea as to what level of charge would be reasonable for this?

phill99

If you rang up a couple of plant hire companies and asked them the same question, you would get a definitive answer.

Plumber90

Ring some companies up, just because you have asked them it doesn't mean you have to use them, they will have a much better idea than anyone on here.

martinthebandit

£200 ish as a guess

traineepensioner

You could self drive.....Might be fun! :-)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CALL-2-HIRE-Kubota-KX61-3-diggers-for-hire-from-86-40-daily-/261539948817?pt=UK_BOI_Industrial_Tools_Construction_Tools_ET&hash=item3ce4fee911

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CALL-2-HIRE-Kubota-U17-3-Diggers-for-hire-from-78-00-per-day-/261539949030?pt=UK_BOI_Industrial_Tools_Construction_Tools_ET&hash=item3ce4fee9e6

or let them do it.....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Digger-with-operator-hire-go-to-web-address-www-wlrecycling-co-uk-/221500338932?pt=UK_BOI_Industrial_Tools_Construction_Tools_ET&hash=item339272f2f4

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-Digger-And-Driver-For-Hire-Berkshire-Based-Takeuchi-Bobcat-/221520220697?pt=UK_BOI_Industrial_Tools_Construction_Tools_ET&hash=item3393a25219

dmorgan81

I'd say £200-300, depends if you can find some who owns a digger (otherwise they'll be forking out a lot to hire it)

Rotor

Few want to do 1/2 a day . The day rate round here (midlands) is circa. £180 -£220

Furts

Tradition in the construction industry is a minimum of one days hire, even if the item is only used for a few hours.

If you refer to a typical plant hire brochure you will see there is no column for hourly rates - it will be rate per day, then days, then week. But the likes of Travis Perkins do not supply drivers. Hence a local groundworks/ plant hire operation is needed to meet your requirements. This is where you need to phone to get a price.

Give thought to what you want the mini digger to do. There are limits to the depths of dig - varying according to the weight of the excavator. None are really suitable for loading tipper lorries - they either lack the reach, or the speed or the bucket capacity. (That is one reason why the utilities use grab lorries)

moneyistooshorttomention

I was thinking in terms of hiring one to grub up some shrubs (as they will probably have had their roots go down fairly deep by now??).

I thought this might be too "heavy" a job for a gardener?

I'm now wondering whether I've misjudged and perhaps it would be a "light" enough job for a gardener to do and they would come out for just the few hours I require.

I know I couldn't do it myself, as I've got nowhere near the physical strength required to do anything like that (but then pretty much anyone would have more physical strength than I have personally).

Will think further on this...