Watercourse cleaning

[paul mcerlean]

Looking some insight into how many meters a reasonable driver and a machine can clean out per hour/per day, to clean out a watercourse. Have a lot to do and not sure how long/ how much it will cost me.
Thanks

 

[Bob lincs]

With a 360 digger and weed basket or ditching bucket ??

 

[paul mcerlean]

Just ditching bucket

 

[organicguy]

depends how big, wide, how much to come out. Cleaning a ditch with a single bucketful with a 360 I can do a metre a minute, (until I get bored then I have lots of tidying up to do!) If the 360 can reach it does not make much difference the size of the digger, bigger ones needing more skill not to take too much out.

 

[Will 1594]

Dont know what area you are , but around £37/40 hr ,gets you one of the fowlers ,and a free digger , skilled drainage men , will bevdoing some more this time

 

[Wombat]

How big are the watercourses?

 

[Dry Rot]

Watching this with interest.

 

[TripleSix]

@nick...

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Get someone to give you a quote

 

[nick...]

@nick...

Very difficult to quote without seeing,may be shallow or deep,full of mud or stone.maybe lots of trees and bushes restricting access and all manner of other things.anyone quoting will quote very high I’d imagine to cover themselves..I generally work by the day rate
Nick...

 

[britt]

We've got a bit to. Are there any cross compliance rules about ditching ?
I couldn't find any when I looked, but they may be hidden elsewhere. It's difficult to find stuff when it's online, much easier when you got a paper book !

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I do my own

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Dont know your situation, but I would never be without my own excavator, paid £18000 for the last one about 10 years back . Hardly spent a penny on it bar service cost . Traded it in for a newer machine this year and almost got back what I paid for it, depends if you have time to drive it I suppose, but its surprising what you can do an hour or two now and then

 

[Steevo]

I do my own View attachment 881119

Looks a very smart machine!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Looks a very smart machine!

I'm hoping it will be as reliable as the last one . 3500 hrs working on the railway so not hard work

 

[Exfarmer]

I'm hoping it will be as reliable as the last one . 3500 hrs working skiving on the railway so not hard work

Corrected that for you

 

[KB6930]

Unfortunately it's a how long is a piece of string
I recently saw a full time digger man 4 days to grade off a bank that I'd only expect to take 2 days 3 at very most yes it was tidy done but he had a tilting hitch etc so should be easy.

Ditching is the same obstacles etc and a different driver can make a world of difference to how much can be done in a day

 

[Pilatus]

I'm hoping it will be as reliable as the last one . 3500 hrs working on the railway so not hard work

I expect ones in such good condition are not that easy to find?

 

[Teejay]

The EA ones wouldn't have been worked very hard.

 

[Adeptandy]

Dont know what area you are , but around £37/40 hr ,gets you one of the fowlers ,and a free digger , skilled drainage men , will bevdoing some more this time

Top notch as well