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A company I use charge 300 inc VAT for a grab lorry which will carry at least 3x as much as a skip that costs 300 from them. But you need a suitable place to put it and on the right surface
As Seth says, most cost effective is a grab away service. If a single, usable material (such as soil, or rubble you can often negotiate a deal as they know where best to recycle/reuse.
Suggest you cover hard surface with ply sheets etc as a grabber can/will damage a good surface.
Hi Josh,
What do you mean by several tons?? 7..16..30?? If it's under 10 then just take a skip and fill it your self,1.5 -3.5 ton digger and a dumper . Write up the estimate with a caveat . 1 maybe 2 skips. You'll have a professional discount of what 30%. You get paid to do the loading etc. .I don't know the details regarding access etc or your time constraints,but I only use grabs where it's not feasible to put a skip.. ....enjoy :-)..
Just be careful - soil and skips don’t always mix. Ask your local skip lorry driver -|
You’ll not be ‘liked’ and not unknown to have partially unload skip to get it lifted, hence why grab-aways can be a better and cheaper choice.
Even better if you know them well and they’ll do partial loads to use up space ;)
too true soil weighs 1.2 t per M3 and if its wet could be half as much again
I honestly never had that problem, but that's not to say that it won't happen in the future. Good to know I must say.
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i think josh said mostly moss, grass and roots etc with a LITTLE soil , so you are all getting carried away
No one is getting carried away; merely discussing options, possibilities and sharing experiences.
Of course if you were hand digging it you would knock the soil off the roots and only have to deal with the green waste.
It might sound daft, but in the past we have actually got someone with a little Massey Ferguson 35 tractor to plough over grown gardens having first cleared the top.
But that involves more work afterwards and doesn’t give the instant results you are looking for.
Depending on where you are in the country and the size of the site i would always go for a grab as they are much cheaper than skips. As someone else said approx 3 skips to one grab for only £300+vat per grab. Only problem is grabs in certain areas wont take any green waste/roots/general rubbish mixed in with soil which makes it difficult and expensive on site clearance jobs. So i would suggest speaking to local grab companies to find out before pricing. If your using a digger to clear the site might be worth investing in a land rake attachment to minimise any mixing of materials.
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