A site dumper carrying a tonne. On a driveway or a groundworks job it shifts spoil and hardcore faster than a gang with barrows, and it does it all day without getting slower.
Ring the yard and tell us where you are tipping. Whether the skip swivels decides how much room you need to work in, and that is a question worth settling before the machine turns up rather than after.
Getting it to the job
It needs 1.4m of clear width, which means a driveway or double gates rather than a side gate. If your access is a standard 900mm gate this is the wrong machine and the tracked dumper, at 690mm, is the right one.
It also needs somewhere to turn and somewhere to tip. Getting it through the gap is only half of it.
The numbers
1t Dumper specification
Payload0kg
Width0mm
Hire typeDry hire
Against a side gate
1400mmSide gate 900mm
500mm wider than a standard side gate, so it needs double gates or a drive.
Measure the tightest point of the whole route in, not just the gate. The 1t dumper is one of the machines it fits past.
The rest of the sheet
Getting it there
Collect or delivered
Ring the yard if a figure matters to your job and we will check it against the machine before you travel.
What comes with it
Serviced and tested between every hire
Fuelled and ready to work when you take it
Delivery to site, or collect it from the Etruria yard
Off hire from the day you ring, not the day it comes back
What you will need
1.4m of clear width, and a route it can turn on
Somewhere to tip, and a plan for where the spoil ends up
Boots, gloves and ear protection
Dry hireCollect or deliveredServiced between hiresSame day when we have it
What people hire it for
The jobs it actually gets used on
Six of the jobs the 1t dumper goes out on most. Keep scrolling and they stack.
01/ 06
Digging out a driveway
The classic pairing. Mini digger loading, dumper running the spoil out to the skip or the wagon, and a job that takes two days with barrows done in one.
02/ 06
Getting the sub-base in
Tonnes of type 1 from the front of the house to the back, before the plate ever comes out.
03/ 06
Footings and extensions
Spoil away from the dig and concrete or hardcore back in, on a site where the pile has to go somewhere that is not the middle of the garden.
04/ 06
Demolition clear up
Broken concrete and brick out to the skip. Heavy, awkward, and exactly what a dumper is for.
05/ 06
Muck away on bigger gardens
Where the volume has gone past what a tracked barrow sensibly does in a day.
06/ 06
Farm and yard work
A tonne of capacity, on ground that is firm enough to take a wheeled machine.
How it works
Hiring the 1t dumper start to finish
01
Ring, message or send the details
Tell us the job and the dates. We will say whether it is in, when it is back if it is out, and whether it is the right machine for what you are doing.
02
Collect it, or we run it out
Pick it up from the yard on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, or we will deliver it to site. If you ring early enough and it is free, it can often go out the same day.
03
Ring when you are done
We off hire it from the day you ring rather than the day it happens to come back, and collect it from site if we delivered it.
Before you book
What you need to know
1t Dumper, in the yard on Brick Kiln Lane, Etruria.
01
Load level, not heaped
A tonne is a tonne when the skip is level. Heaped and wet, it is more than the machine is rated for and it handles like it.
02
Slopes are where dumpers go over
Travel up and down a slope rather than across it, keep the load downhill, and do not tip on a cross fall. Most dumper accidents are this.
03
Nobody rides on it
One seat, one person. Passengers on a dumper is the other common way people get hurt on a site.
04
Wet clay weighs more than you think
Around here that matters. A skip that looks half full of Cheshire or Staffordshire clay can already be at capacity.
05
Check the tip area first
Where you are tipping wants to be firm and level and not the edge of something. Dumpers have gone into skips, ditches and holes they were emptying into.
06
Fuel and checks
It comes fuelled and tested. Watch the level on a full day and ask at the yard what they want doing about fuel before you bring it back.
From the Google profile
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Neil Gerrard · Micro digger
Fantastic experience with Elite Plant Hire! I hired a mini digger and a tracked dumper, and both were top-quality, modern, and reliable machines…
The yard is on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, a couple of minutes off the A500, so most of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme is a short run either way. Collect it yourself if you have something that can carry or tow it, or we will deliver it to site and collect it when you are finished.
Not to hire it from us, but you do need to know what you are doing. If you have not driven one, say so when you ring. Most dumper accidents are slopes, overloading and passengers, and all three are avoidable.
No. It needs 1.4m of clear width, so it wants a driveway or double gates. If all you have is a standard side gate, take the tracked dumper instead, which gets through 690mm.
Ring and ask, because it decides how much room you need. A swivel skip tips to the side as well as straight ahead, so you can empty into a skip or a trench alongside without turning the machine round, and in a tight space that is the whole job.
Almost always. Loading a dumper by hand wastes most of what it gives you. Most people take the mini digger and this together and finish in a day.
Get it booked
Tell us the job. We will tell you the machine.
Ring the yard and you get a straight answer on whether the 1t dumper is available, when it is back if it is out on hire, and whether it is the right thing for what you are doing. If it is not, we will say so.
