How much should I expect to pay for earth moving

tr250

Member
Location
Northants
Got some soil to level. Around a weeks work for a cat D8 with blade on front how much would be a fair sum to pay an hour with us supplying fuel and how much fuel roughly would one use an hour?
 
Got some soil to level. Around a weeks work for a cat D8 with blade on front how much would be a fair sum to pay an hour with us supplying fuel and how much fuel roughly would one use an hour?
You've got a lot of soil to move if you need a d8
Make sure you get a good weather slot otherwise you may have to pay standing
 

Ukjay

Member
Location
Wales!
We paid £60 / hr inc vat for excavator and operaor, so may have to stump up more for the larger Cat machine due to running costs.
 
They basically dug it out the railway and kept running on top and tipping it over the edge so it's made a near shear drop with a very wet gully down the rest of the field so the job is strip the top soil back push it down the valley about 200m grading it into the hole. It's a job that should of been done in 1859 but I'm guessing it was maybe a different land owner then and didn't want any spoil on his ground
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sounds like a lot of expense. Can't you just drain the wet bit?
 

Frodo2

Member
They basically dug it out the railway and kept running on top and tipping it over the edge so it's made a near shear drop with a very wet gully down the rest of the field so the job is strip the top soil back push it down the valley about 200m grading it into the hole. It's a job that should of been done in 1859 but I'm guessing it was maybe a different land owner then and didn't want any spoil on his ground
160 years to finish a job. That must be a record
 
They basically dug it out the railway and kept running on top and tipping it over the edge so it's made a near shear drop with a very wet gully down the rest of the field so the job is strip the top soil back push it down the valley about 200m grading it into the hole. It's a job that should of been done in 1859 but I'm guessing it was maybe a different land owner then and didn't want any spoil on his ground
Have you dug some trial holes nothing of value in there? You could sell out and charge tipping back in
 

Walton2

Member
Would you need some sort of license to do that? A chap near me started tipping subsoil,then topsoil on about 5 acre....had to get retrospective Planning Permission.Fortunately he got it! He might have been able to pay a fine from the profits of his ‘free tip’ though!!! Many thousands of tonnes involved.
 
Would you need some sort of license to do that? A chap near me started tipping subsoil,then topsoil on about 5 acre....had to get retrospective Planning Permission.Fortunately he got it! He might have been able to pay a fine from the profits of his ‘free tip’ though!!! Many thousands of tonnes involved.
We have had some experience in this recently with a couple of clients (who found us through the forum) and this sort of operation would need planning permission as the scale of it makes it an engineering operation. There may also be need for Environment Agency licencing and a Flood Risk Assessment.
 

Walton2

Member
At what point does it become an engineering operation....I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that it was left to an individual Planning Officer to decide...if you know what I mean!!
 

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