Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Soil Removal Cost 4May 28, 2009 8:13 pm Da Vinci Outdoor Living Architectural landscaping http://www.davincioutdoor.com Re: Soil Removal Cost 7Jun 02, 2009 9:22 am http://buildingatfreeling.blogspot.com/ Building at Freeling Estate Adelaide MKII WE ARE NOW OFFICIALLY FIRST HOME OWNERS AND WE BUILT A NEW HOME FROM SCRATCH Re: Soil Removal Cost 16Jul 01, 2009 1:09 am Andronicus alk Are you sure it wasn't 1000kg? 1000 tonnes is crazy. I recently carted away 33 tonnes (33 000kg) of dirt and rock. I organised it myself, builder suggested someone but this guy said he'd do a good deal If I paid cash. It took three truckloads... Breakdown: Labour: $85p/h (one man, excavator and truck) Hours: 4.5 hours Dumping fee: 3 tonnes free (resident) and each additional tonne at $6.50 Total: $577.50 I paid less than that though. The nice lady at the tip let me off for the last load saving me about $65. Pretty silly you have to pay so much any way since it was clean fill, the tip use it to cover up rubbish. Yes, 100% positive it is 1000 tonne. It is crazy, but imagine taking a 2.6m deep cut into the land 20 metres wide, you'd reach 1000 tonne quite easily. That's not even cutting out a square chunk, it's more like a wedge shape (due to the land sloping). It's interesting to compare your price ($17.50 per tonne) with my builders price ($16.50 per tonne). I wouldn't be able to stockpile that amount, it'd be as high as ayers rock. 2.6 x 20 = 52 cu mtrs @ an overly generous sg of 2.8 = 145.6 t We levelled an area 45m x 35m x 1.5 mtr cut and 1.5 mtrs fill, was bush we moved 2300 cu mtrs of sand. Cost of $3160. No sand was removed or brought to site. But it was a contra deal. Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Soil Removal Cost 17Jul 01, 2009 2:07 am onc_artisan 2.6 x 20 = 52 cu mtrs @ an overly generous sg of 2.8 = 145.6 t We levelled an area 45m x 35m x 1.5 mtr cut and 1.5 mtrs fill, was bush we moved 2300 cu mtrs of sand. Cost of $3160. No sand was removed or brought to site. But it was a contra deal. Need to factor in the entire building envelope. Something like 2.6 deep x 20 wide x 16 long x your factor of 2.8 = 2330 t. However since the land slopes down over that 16m (eg it's not 2.6m deep the whole 16m) that you end up digging out a wedge rather than square. So perhaps 1/2 the 2330 t or 1164 t. Because the original plan was all cut, we couldn't use the soil for filll and thus the need to spend $16 per tonne having it removed from site. I didn't mention the $4500 charge to actually do the siteworks. Re: Soil Removal Cost 18Jul 01, 2009 2:11 pm You need to find someone like me (and I need to find someone like you all) who wants some fill. Anyone on the southside of Brissy with some dirt to give away to a good home??? Building the Pl@ntation Retreat on 4009m2. All moved in!!!!!! Now for the real work https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20588&p=285640#p285640 Re: Soil Removal Cost 19Jul 01, 2009 5:41 pm could walk down the main streets of adelaide with a handfull of soil singing.. Some Soil, Soil for sale. It's going cheap. Only seven guineas. That -- or thereabouts. Some soil... Rather pale. ... Re: Soil Removal Cost 20Sep 29, 2009 8:02 am hunts01 We just went through the same thing The soil was $5 a cubic metre to dump at a fill site LANTRUC The tip truck was $75 an hour The excavator as $85 an hour Basically we were quoted 200 cubic metres or 20 tip truck loads, excavation and tip fees for $6000. I suggest you get onto lantrak and speak to them about prices, they sem to be pretty good! Was that including the operators hourly rate for tip truck and excavator? We are querying our concreter as they've overcharged on every conceivable thing. To remove 35.64 cubic metres of fill they charged 2800 for a combination rock breaker, 6 tonne excavator and bobcat, and 2735 in tip truck hire (395 tip fee's 5*79= 395). they say they took 22 trucks to the tip and were only charged for 5. The first day's excavation they removed most of the soil from the block the majority of the excavation for the retaining wall with supposedly 4 loads (about 27 cubes) this took the operator 6 hours. The second two days they removed the leftovers (probably a truck full), + 8.64 cubes of material for the footings some of which was rock. So excavation cost for 35 square metres (including labour of operator of excavator and supervisor for excavator (50 per hour= 2600) was $8135 or $232.4 per cubic metre. Figure that one out ! Also they excavated the footings using the same "technique" and for approx 18 cubes of footings they charged 3410 for the excavator and tipper (11 hours @ 90 for the tipper =990+ 20 hours excavator bobcat rock breaker combo 20 hours *110= 2200,+ tip fees 4 loads @55.05 = 220.20) Mysteriously the tip fee had dropped it's fees by 30 percent the second time and they were able to take 18 cubes in 4 trucks, as opposed to 35 cubes in 22 trucks. This is using a 10 cubic metre truck by the way, and the bob cat and rock breaker weren't used in the first day of excavation, i wasn't there for the rest so i don't know what happened. Also the company that do the concreting own the excavation equipment and rent it out to themselves through a shell company as their address is the same as the concreter so we can't get the actual time rented out from the machinery hire place as it's their company. PM me your email. 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