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Have you thought about bringing a mobile crane in to lift a 1.5 tonne digger in and remove it after use ? You can hire crane and driver for around £200 for a 2 hour lift in and same for the lift out. There's no way I would hand dig 20m3 of earth when this option is available. It would also be far more cost effective than to spend days digging out 20m3 even if you had a squad of grafters in, the crane and digger costs would be cheaper. Might seem a bit "out there" but Iv'e seen it done on numerous occassion's up here in the Edinburgh area where terrain and access can be a pain. Just make sure your or the crane company's insurance cover you for it !!
Other option I would consider (and have done) is to hire in a Kanga (we used a 4 wheel, rather than tracked version), line the floor with cordex sheets and just take it easy driving thru. These are great little machines and our local hire company has one on it's fleet. We shifted 40T of top soil this way using that and a small narrow tracked hi lift loader (would take 500kg).
ps assume a Dingo is = Kango or a Boxa ?
Depending upon your digger driving skills, i would look at bringing the digger through the house. We use a JCB Micro machine for our poor access jobs.
If you sheet the floor with plastic or dust sheets first, then lay hard board sheets down with scaffold boards over the top to spread the load you should be good.
The only time it doesn't work is if you have a step set of steps in or out of the property as the approach angles on these little machines are pretty poor.
Also remember that having a digger on site will also aid with your ground consolidation of the material you have moved to the other side of the garden, as i am assuming this is a cut and fill job.
Peter
Is it possible to pop a fence panel out and get in that way ?
Te job is to replace an old retaining wall that is failing in one 9 meter section. To get in there saftely we have to batter back at least 2 meters. The house is on a terrace, so the fence panel removal won't work. The hallways in the houses are narrow and have at least one corner.
Then again, do I want a machine sitting 2 meters away from a 2 m high drop?