Cost of hiring a JCB

Depends on the size, and also if you drive it yourself or want someone to do it for you. Our local equipment hire place does mini excavators starting at about £80 for a day - or about three times that for a week. You pay a bit more for larger ones.

It was the normal size not a mini one and with someone to do it took 10 hours and cost £200 including taking the rubbish away.

You mean a wheeled machine?

I'd expect that to cost GBP180-250 for the machine ( travelling in your time) and driver and possibly a diesel surcharge for heavy digging. Even more on a proper site with requirement for risk assessment, method statement ans cpcs card.

Inert muck away will cost ~GBP25/tonne unless someone wants it.

AJH

That's 27 cu m of rubbish. Around 5 large skips at umm £120 each?

Image of JCB doimg the work...

AJH

I've not filled a skip for years - a grab wagon takes 16m3 (3 skips worth) and charges me £160

Do you think that 27 cu m of excavated stuff would fit into two wagon loads? How much does it bulk up when excavated?

Allow from 1.2 to 1.6 times expansion usually depending on what sort of soil it is...

A grab wagon won't dig ... so it all has to be loose & piled up for it to pick up.

You sure a grab wagon can take 32m3 ... seems a lot to me.

some other options to consider ... mini digger, will fill skips nicely, self drive and will dig it out as well as fill barrow or whatever.

for filling ... skip-loaders are useful ..... saves effort of barrowing up planks. I had SWMBO driving the skip loader, while I operated mini digger (3 tonne ver)