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Footing Excavations: How Mini Diggers Can Help

12 May 2017

Since footings support the foundations of homes and buildings, it is crucial that you excavate the land in just the right manner to prepare it for their installation. Mini diggers or excavators can help you accomplish this task in a quality, timely way without the need to resort to larger, bulkier machines. In fact, there are situations where full-size versions of these machines do not have sufficient space to perform footing excavations.

The Numerous Ways That Mini Diggers Will Help With Excavation Tasks to Prepare for Footings

1. Mini excavators are easy to manoeuver even in tight places. If your structure is near another one or even a tree, you can clear the land without harming either one, as the case may be in your circumstances. These machines can turn in a limited space unlike their larger counterparts.

2. Mini diggers deliver sufficient power to perform the job effectively and can dig through any type of soil, including heavy clay. Diggers such as these use hydraulic power to run the necessary attachments for excavating that range from rotary hoes to augers.

3. When these mini machines move across the soil to their intended target, they cause minimal damage, if any at all, whereas, the full-size versions will lay waste to the area most of the time where it will require re-landscaping as a result. Re-landscaping adds unnecessary stress when you can avoid it with the use of mini excavators.

4. The operators of these machines can work in a timely fashion due to the fact that they are easy to control and respond quickly to all adjustments. Your footing excavation will be ready for the footing installation according to your construction schedule without issue as long as the weather does not interfere with your efforts.

5. Mini diggers are cost-effective when you are on a tight budget in comparison to the cost of renting the full-size ones. This is a beneficial feature whether you are preparing the land for your project or for a client of yours. Coming within budget is a major concern with all construction projects that involve excavating for footings.

Rely on Melbourne Mini Diggers when you are in need of footing excavations. We will provide you a mini excavator and an expert operator at one affordable price. In addition to this task, we will trench, rotary hoe, stump grind, dig post stump holes and move soil upon request. With the help of various attachments our machines will perform all tasks in a high-quality manner.