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Smallholding => Land Management => Topic started by: Foobar on April 05, 2016, 01:39:03 pm

Title: Culvert/drainage ditch digging
Post by: Foobar on April 05, 2016, 01:39:03 pm

What's the going rate for drainage ditch digging work?  Anyone had any done recently?

Title: Re: Culvert/drainage ditch digging
Post by: bazzais on April 05, 2016, 02:24:00 pm

Would expect to pay around £15 an hour dug by hand, £30 with mini digger and £50 by bigger digger.

Obviously more expensive if its only few hours work because of cost of transporting equipment.

Title: Re: Culvert/drainage ditch digging
Post by: Foobar on April 05, 2016, 02:30:10 pm

Price per metre though?


I have about 250m of very wet land to dig....so would need a bigger digger just cos the ground is so unstable/boggy.

Title: Re: Culvert/drainage ditch digging
Post by: sss on April 05, 2016, 08:59:31 pm

Our drainage board charged us £30 an hour for a 15t digger to clear our ditches.