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If you can get a wheelbarrow in, you should be able to get a micro digger in? A powerfab type machine is lighter than tracked and I've got mine round 90* bends in its own length by levering with a bar!
I'd pass that job onto someone you don't like!!
How did you arrive at the volume and have you allowed for bulking up of the spoil as its dug?
Might be worth digging a few trial pits to see what is under the surface, and basing your quote on the assumption that the whole site is like that, with a renegotiation clause if it isn't?
It could be 10 tons of soil over 20 tons of rubble, dig a couple of test pits.
You need to allow for up to 30% bulking up, especially is soil is clay based (and assuming it is soil down to subsoil level).
Your T&C's should allow for any 'unknown structures etc'
Who produced volume figure - you or client?
That's min 5off builder skips (not counting bulking, so potentially another 2 skips) and would be digger and skip loader territory for me :-)
Get digging, or borrow a power auger to check and/or get client to underwrite volumes agreed to (and link to waste disposal costs).
You plan on digging out and removing 30 cubic metres of soil BY HAND!? Do you realise that's around 500-600 wheelbarrow fulls?
According to spons it should cost you £106.95 per m3 to excavate and dispose of in skips or onto boards for a grab lorry then it would be the cost of the skips or grab lorries if the digging was by hand and using a barrow.
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