Excavator HireMelbourne

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Don't miss out on the best excavator hire companies in Melbourne! Our top picks are sure to be the perfect partner for your project. Refine your search by size, hire terms, attachments, and even mine-specification to find exactly what you're looking for.

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Logo of QLD Civil Solutions
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Nunawading, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Grader
  • Drill And Blast
26 Machines
6 Services
13 Locations
QCS deliver’s multidisciplinary civil works such as earthworks, flood remediation, bridge structures and transmission lines. With involvement in major civil construction projects such as L5 ...
Logo of JTS Earthworks
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West Footscray, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Tipper
  • Landscapers
5 Machines
5 Services
1 Location
JTS Earthworks is an owner-operated business with extensive industry experience, providing high-quality landscaping and excavation services to clients in the greater West Footscray region an...
Logo of Eastern Digger Hire
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Kilsyth South, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Posi Track
  • Excavation
2 Machines
1 Location
Eastern Digger Hire is an owner-operated business based in Kilsyth South, Victoria, with years of industry experience. We specialise in providing excavator and Posi Track machine hire for re...
Logo of RC&S Pty Ltd
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Noble Park North, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Mobile Jaw
  • Crushed Concrete
2 Machines
1 Location
RC&S Pty Ltd is an owner-operated business with extensive industry experience, servicing the greater Cranbourne region and surrounding suburbs in Victoria. Specialising in rock and concrete ...
Logo of Perfect Earthmovers
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Kalkallo, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Tipper
  • Excavation
2 Machines
1 Location
Perfect Earthmovers provides expert excavation and concrete slab services across Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, and Pakenham. Specialising in site cuts, trenching, and slab preparation, we of...
Logo of J.Whitelaw Plant Hire
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Seaford, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Truck Trailer
  • Bulk Earthworks
2 Machines
1 Service
1 Location
J. Whitelaw Plant Hire is an owner-operated business with a strong foundation of industry experience. Based in Seaford, Victoria, we specialise in providing reliable excavator and tipper hir...
Logo of WECKERT excavations p/l
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Langwarrin, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Tipper
  • Excavation
2 Machines
1 Location
WECKERT Excavations P/L is an owner-operated business with extensive experience in the excavation industry. Based in the heart of Docklands, Victoria, we offer reliable and cost-efficient so...
Logo of RAMM GROUP SERVICES
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Oakleigh South, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Scissor Lift - Diesel
  • Excavation
2 Machines
1 Location
RAMM GROUP SERVICES is a trusted, owner-operated business based in Oakleigh South, Victoria, with a solid foundation of industry experience in excavation and earthworks. Located on Jason Str...
Logo of Sumit Construction
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Werribee, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Tipper
  • Earthmoving
2 Machines
1 Location
Sumit Construction is an owner-operated business proudly servicing the greater Winchelsea region and surrounding suburbs in Victoria. With extensive industry experience, we specialise in exc...
Logo of Celtic Earthworks
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Frankston, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Skid Steer
  • Earthmoving
3 Machines
1 Location
Celtic Earthworks is an owner-operated business with extensive industry experience, proudly servicing the greater Frankston region and surrounding suburbs in Victoria. Specialising in earthm...

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Excavators for hire in Melbourne

iseekplant offers an extensive selection of excavators suitable for commercial, residential, agricultural, mining and civil project requirements.

Whatever the type of job, our suppliers have you covered.

  • Civil Jobs – usually between 5-tonne and 30-tonne excavators are found on sites conducting infrastructure development, roadworks, or improving drainage systems. A very common civil-sized machine would be 20 tonnes.
  • Residential Jobs – on residential construction sites, usually 1-tonne to 10-tonne excavators assist in preparing the land, digging foundations, and landscaping.
  • Commercial Jobs – for larger commercial developments, you’ll often see a 14-tonne working on the groundwork, but anything up to 30 tonnes can be used in the case of digging massive basements or footings.
  • Agricultural Jobs – anything under about 30 tonnes can be found doing agricultural work. Many farmers own smaller excavators they use every day and hire in the bigger ones when building dams or clearing land.
  • Mining Projects – You need the big guns – heavy-duty mine spec excavators. These start at 30 tonnes and go to 200 tonnes.

Common excavator sizes available in Melbourne

Our suppliers provide reasonable hire rates and a wide range of machine sizes to choose from.

  • 3 tonne excavators – classed as a mini excavator and are great for tight-access jobs
  • 8 tonne excavators – generalist machines suitable for most types of B2B hiring jobs in commercial and civil construction
  • 15 tonne excavators – anything from 13 tonnes to 16 tonnes are your classic civil-sized excavators with an extensive range of attachments
  • 22 tonne excavators – the most prolific civil-sized machine in Victoria. Many of these machines are fitted with GPS or UTS machine control and have heaps of attachments
  • 30 tonne excavators – the top end of the civil-sized machines, perfect for breaking up rock or bulk earthworks operations

Choose from wet or dry hire

Many of our Melbourne-based suppliers offer wet and dry hire machines and earthmoving equipment at reasonable hire rates. When you post a job on iseekplant, be sure to explain exactly the type of hire you need because it can vastly affect hourly rates.

Excavator hire locations near to Melbourne

Melbourne excavator hire suppliers can be found in high concentrations in the Dandenong area, southwest in Werribee and south East in Frankston, then North to Melton as these are areas where the suppliers can have large yards for their fleets.

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