- Location
- south norfolk
You can get insurance through jcb website.dont know of any companies that let machines out without seeing insurance certificate
Nick...
Nick...
Mainline. About £400/week.
But we bought a 6000hr JS130 for £15k as we seemed to have a 360 here either on hire or a machine with a driver most of the time so it paid to buy one. There's a few of them out there so have a look in plant trader.
Agree, there's not much point in joining the race to the bottom!This is why im happy for our diggers to sit in the yard when people poke them out at silly rate. 13 tonne machine should be £500 a week with a driver £35 an hour.
Good call kev
I went to help some friends in Lampeter a while ago. We used a local firm to do all the ground-work and they did a fantastic job. They were a busy crew and we had more work for them to do but they couldn't spare the time. They recommended another one-man-band with a similar but old machine who duly turned up and did one days work whereapon his machine promptly blew a head gasket......I had another weeks work to finish. Three weeks later the broken machine was finally running. I'd moved home by then and the ground-work was never finished properly.Round here plenty of 13tonners are available on self drive from £80-100 a day with discount for longer period from a lot of plant/agri contractors therefore no need to bother with the large plant hire firms which woukd have a fit if you're loading muck!!!
They're available with driver and diesel for around the £30 mark. With the right operator they're phenomenal at moving stuff!! Had three days work lined up last summer inlcuding site leveling, digging foundations, trench for ducting, ditching a stretch, tidying a track up and levelling all the spoil carried away. Half way through day 2 we were nearly finished and if I carted atleast three hundred tonnes of soil away from him, plus carted crushed conc and sub-base back afterwards. Said goodbye to machine at the end of day 2 and that was after I did a coupke of other jobs myself with it!!!!
Speak as you find.
Tried to stitch me up to the price of a windscreen the first time i used them.
Can't recommend, won't use again,
Roger moore?I went to help some friends in Lampeter a while ago. We used a local firm to do all the ground-work and they did a fantastic job. They were a busy crew and we had more work for them to do but they couldn't spare the time. They recommended another one-man-band with a similar but old machine who duly turned up and did one days work whereapon his machine promptly blew a head gasket......I had another weeks work to finish. Three weeks later the broken machine was finally running. I'd moved home by then and the ground-work was never finished properly.
I believe it is a false economy to hire those machines which only do the odd days work on a farm. They aren't reliable at all. I can honestly say that if my once new & shiny TB175 was given a months solid work I couldn't guarantee not having a brakedown.
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£35 an hour for a good operator is cheap really.This is why im happy for our diggers to sit in the yard when people poke them out at silly rate. 13 tonne machine should be £500 a week with a driver £35 an hour.
It fell offWhat's the full story?
If going buy go VolvoMainline. About £400/week.
But we bought a 6000hr JS130 for £15k as we seemed to have a 360 here either on hire or a machine with a driver most of the time so it paid to buy one. There's a few of them out there so have a look in plant trader.
Unles the hire co 'know' you ie, you have had an account for quite a while they won't entertain hiring anything above 3.5 tons. Gap Norwich are one such co. Luckily I have my own machine and over the years it has certainly paid for itself.
I'd just phone around.
You can also use email to ask, but some co's don't reply to these
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all of Feb I think so 4 weeks
Gap just don't. In my old work area I had two who were able & willing, Hawes Plant & Morgans but up here in EA they seem to be a little fussy!Not in my experience, most hire firms don't give a monkeys and would hire you their granny if you paid upfront.
Sure ours was about 19k with those hours. Bought from tff classifieds.Where on earth did u find a js130 at that money?[emoji23] I'm on the look out for one but they seem to be about £25k for them hours
Where on earth did u find a js130 at that money?[emoji23] I'm on the look out for one but they seem to be about £25k for them hours