The earthworks business is a specialised one, and it’s a profession that attracts people with particular skill sets. That means professionals who do this all day, every day. They get to know the equipment, and the more experience they gain, the better prepared they are to do a first-class job.
Contrast that with the enthusiastic jack-of-all-trades who will have a go but are just making it up as they go along.
It can also be a dangerous job, because contractors deal with heavy materials including soil and sand that have lain undisturbed and mysterious for thousands of years, and use heavy, tough but sophisticated equipment to create the conditions you need for development, sometimes in difficult conditions.
In other words, this is not something to take liberties with. You can’t bring in any Tom, Dick or Harriet with a suitable driving licence and expect them to handle it well. In fact, you could be putting them in danger, in addition to jeopardising the project by having it fouled up by a well-meaning amateur.
Benefit From a Professional’s Knowledge and Expertise
With a skilled operator at the controls, you are getting two things: expertise and knowledge. Let’s look at the knowledge first. They will know about soil types and the particular problems each one can bring. On the positive side, they will know when they are working with something relatively straightforward, where everyone can relax a little and steam ahead, getting the job done in good time and hopefully without issues. That means better productivity. It means maybe getting ahead of schedule with the project and saving money in the long term.
Another benefit of hiring an operator with the excavator is that they will know the equipment because it belongs to their company, and they not only know all about it but have probably used it before. Again, this means improved productivity.
You Will Get Better Equipment
A professional earthworks company like Fraser Earthworks, one that uses the equipment rather than just bringing it and leaving you to get on with it, will have better gear. They will keep up to date because they use these machines all the time, and for everyone’s sake, they want to have efficient work carried out by happy operators. If you just hire what you think you need and hope for the best, you’re at the mercy of the supplier, who is somewhere out there in the distance with your money in their pocket, whether things are going well at your end or not. There’s no real accountability.
The best excavation companies also have up-to-date equipment as regards noise and emissions. You want to have a good job done, but just as you apply 21st-century standards to considerations such as low power use and good heat retention or cooling systems, you can ensure you’re doing your bit in the early days when your land is being prepared for this responsible future.
A professional operator can help in this respect, too, because someone who knows what they’re doing can avoid causing unnecessary damage to the land they’re working on. And they’re not going to be harming the machinery, either, because they’re going to be using it again next week on another project.
Local knowledge can help, so find yourself a contractor that works all over south-east Queensland, specialising in the Sunshine Coast, someone with a pretty good idea of what’s down there in this part of the world.
Contact a Specialist to Get Your Project Off the Ground
When a project is in the early stages, sometimes it needs a kick to get it going, and that can be as simple as a phone call or filling in an online form. If earthworks are not your thing – and why should they be – you need to get someone on board who can take on that responsibility and get your plans off the drawing board and into the realms of action. You know what the finished article is going to be, but you can’t be expected to know how to accomplish every stage of the process.
The important thing is to surround yourself with professionalism, and hiring some machines to be operated by amateurs is not the way to get results. Excavator hire with an operator is the way forward.
