The Complete Guide to Earth-Moving Equipment and Determining What You Need on Your Site

Earth-moving equipment is machinery that can move, collect, transport, or dump soil, rocks, and waste materials. These are the typical actions you would need to take on any construction site, especially if you’re excavating and developing the foundation for a building. The best examples of earth-moving equipment include excavators and dumpers.

Let’s examine these two popular earth-moving machines more closely:

Excavator

The excavator is a piece of earth-moving equipment necessary for any construction project requiring you to dig out soil from the earth. The equipment can excavate foundations, move heavy materials, dig through demolition sites, and create large trenches and holes.

Industrial and construction sites depend on excavators tremendously. You can hire various excavator models of different sizes, depending on how much soil or materials you need to excavate or transport. 

Dumper

The dumper features a bucket with a higher load capacity than an excavator’s bucket. It is designed to carry and transport higher loads of earth elements to different locations on a construction site. Most modern dumper models can transport several tonnes of weight at once. Once a dumper reaches its destination, the bucket will turn and release its load quickly.

Of course, you can use a dumper to carry waste, construction materials, rocks, soil, and anything else you need to transport in large quantities.

Do You Need to Hire Earth-Moving Equipment?

Bison Plant Hire has the best model excavator hires and dumper hires for moving waste materials, rocks, and soil in the United Kingdom. Contact us at 01285 862222 or email us at planthire@bisonplanthire.com.