Excavator HireMelbourne

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 Shine Excavations PTY LTD
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Eden Park, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Posi Track
  • Soil Disposal
5 Machines
6 Services
1 Location
Shine Excavations is a leading excavation company that has been providing exceptional excavation and land development services to clients for 6 years. With over 20 years of experience in the...
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Brooklyn, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Earthmoving
1 Machine
1 Service
1 Location
Galway Plant Fitters, back with 4 years industry experience, is a locally owned and operated earthmoving company situated in Melbourne’s Western Suburbs, extending our services across the gr...
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Melbourne, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Tipper
  • Excavation
5 Machines
5 Services
2 Locations
With over 20 years of experience, YellowX has built up a solid reputation for its expertise in all things earthmoving and excavation in the Greater Melbourne region. Our expert operators are...
Logo of JL Excavation & Earthmoving
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(14)
Campbellfield, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Mini Loader
  • Excavation
6 Machines
2 Services
1 Location
Leaders in all things excavation and waste management, here at JL Excavation & Earthmoving we are renowned for our variety of quality machinery coupled with highly competent operators. With ...
Logo of CRE Group
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(1)
Toorak, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
4 Machines
1 Location
CRE Civil Group is a civil resourcing and engineering contractor with a broad range of experience and skills. With the ability to provide personalised service to clients and their represen...
Logo of Mini Plant Hire
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(1)
Clayton, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Mini Loader
  • Wheeled Skid Steer
22 Machines
2 Locations
Located in Clayton and Beaconsfield Mini Plant Hire offers excavation hire services. As a family owned and operated business Mini Plant Hire focuses on providing mini excavators for hire and...
Logo of RL Earthworks
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North Melbourne, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Skid Steer
2 Machines
1 Location
RL Earthworks has been serving Melbourne and its environs for years and has built a reputation as the go-to provider of reliable plant machinery for hire. We have invested heavily in our fle...
Logo of PACC Civil & Equipment
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South Yarra, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Truck Mounted Water Cart
  • Labour Hire
8 Machines
1 Service
1 Location
At PACC Civil & Equipment we are a family-owned company built on foundations of respect, trust, quality and safety. Based in St Kilda in Melbourne, our team consists of highly skilled superv...
Logo of Silverland Victoria Pty Ltd
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Sunshine North, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Prime Mover
  • Excavation
4 Machines
2 Services
1 Location
Welcome to Silverland Victoria, where we take pride in providing the best excavation and earthmoving services at affordable prices. As a trusted excavation and earthmoving business, we are d...
Logo of Paulls construction equipment
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Lower Plenty, VIC
  • Track Mounted Excavator
  • Wheel Loader
  • Earthworks
9 Machines
1 Service
1 Location
Paulls Construction Equipment is a hire, rental and sales business that is based in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne. We offer excavators, loaders and rock breakers for hire nationwide, off...

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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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