Excavator Hire – Adelaide

Excavator for hire in Adelaide

Find the perfect excavator for your commercial, residential, agricultural, mining or civil project needs.

iseekplant provide an extensive selection of industry-leading excavators from credible, vetted local suppliers in the following categories:

• Mini Excavators – Ideal for residential projects, small commercial sites, landscaping and trenching needs. These efficient machines range from 1 to 5 tonnes in weight and are exceptionally versatile, making them great for smaller jobs in built-up areas.
• Civil-sized Excavators – Weighing between 5 - 30 tonnes in weight, civil-sized excavators are powerful bits of gear equipped with an array of attachments and sometimes even machine control. Our suppliers offer all the most popular brands - Cat, Komatsu, Volvo and Kobelco (just to name a few).
• Heavy-duty Mine Spec Excavators – If you require bulk excavation or mass haul power, Mine Spec Excavators are the ultimate choice. These machines offer a wide range of safety features and reinforced attachments, ranging from 30 tonnes or operating weight to 200 tonnes.

Various excavator sizes available for hire in Adelaide

Various excavator sizes available for hire in Adelaide Narrow your excavator search results to the perfect size by utilizing the refinement panel on the left-hand side of our directory. We provide an array of popular sizes to choose from, including:

• 1 tonne – a staple in micro excavation, frequently utilised for digging around the perimeter of residential properties.
• 5 tonne excavator – powerful, yet compact excavator for civil or residential projects in hard-to-reach spaces. With its impressive strength and agility, it's perfect for any job!
• 10 tonne excavator – boasting a weight of 10 tonnes, this excavator is the epitome of civil-sized machinery - it stands tall as the leader and peak performer in the compact excavator class!
• 14 tonne excavator – ideal size for a variety of construction projects - from civil jobs to residential tasks. It's our most popular hire in Adelaide and comes equipped with plenty of attachments.
• 20 tonne excavator – outfitted with next-generation onboard systems like machine control and telematics, these machines take your excavation to a higher level.
• 30 tonne excavator – is an essential component of large-scale civil projects, especially when it comes to activities such as rock demolition and tunnelling in the LNG industry.
• 50-tonne excavator – is an uncommon sight in metropolitan projects, but perfect for large-scale earthworks or mass haul tasks.

Excavator attachments

With iseekplant, you have access to over 40 diverse accessories for your excavator — some of which include:

• 4-in-1 Bucket – a very versatile bucket with literally four applications, including grappling, digging, lifting, and sieving.
• Zero Swing – is an attachment to the boom that stops the boom from oscillating.
• Quick Hitch – is a small feature affixed to the end of the boom that allows for the quick replacement of attachments from one task to the next.

You can hire attachments for excavators on their own or ask the suppliers to source what you need if they don't already have it in the yard.

Wet and dry excavator hire available

When looking for an excavator through our Get a Quote tool, be sure to clarify whether you want wet or dry hire.

Providing this information in your job request will ensure that suppliers give you accurate quotes. Wet hire is more expensive and complicated compared to dry hire however, some seekers are willing to hire machines on either basis when they need the machinery urgently.

Excavator hire locations near to Adelaide

Because Adelaide is a relatively small city, there are a more limited number of operators working out of Adelaide who service the whole of South Australia from one central location. Many Western-Australian-based plant hire companies have depots in Adelaide, and likewise many Victoria plant hire companies.

It's common to see big plant hire guys operate out of WA, SA and NT.

If you can't find what your looking for in Adelaide specifically, then feel free to email our projects team and they'll get on the hunt.