Hydraulic
Excavator
Cost: $45,000 - $4,748,000
Weight: 13,900 lb. - 1,044,000 lb.
Average Cost to Run, per hour: $170 - $1,389 for the larger machines.
As
equipment managers learned that they needed to be cost-efficient
to compete with other contractors, they turned to hydraulic excavators.
For digging jobs requiring high productivity, excavators teamed
with dump trucks move a lot of material quickly. That wasn't always
the case, but improvements in hydraulic systems transformed the
quality of the machines and the work they could do. Now excavators
are a common site at any construction site. |
