What if you have a trencher & backhoe combination? Isn't the chain
driven trencher faster than the excavator? Just switch to back hoe when
you hit a big rock.
That's my theory anyway.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 2/21/2018 8:53:00 PM
Subject: [AFMUG] Fw: Excavation costs
Lets say you have an equipment operator that earns $20/hour. I always
double that for loaded cost.
That operator can dig probably 50 foot/hour reliably. So say 320
feet/day with start up and shut down inefficiencies. 8 x 40 = $320.
So $1/foot just for the labor. More if we pay for a health insurance
plan.
Then equipment allowance. $100K used excavator. 10% time value of
money = $10K/year
Depreciation expense, say $20K/year.
So $30K/year. If you kept it busy half the time, say 1000 hours, that
is $30/hour.
$240 per day.
We are up to $560/day for 300 feet of ditch. Round it up to $600 and
you have a minimum of $2/foot.
And knowing my estimates are generally off by half or 3x, perhaps
$5/foot is a good planning figure for the true cost of digging a ditch.
From:Chuck McCown
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 6:33 PM
To:[email protected]
Subject: Excavation costs
Anyone figured out what it costs them per foot for excavation using
their own machine?
I am working to figure out the real cost.
What does it cost to have a contractor do it?
