Gold Coast Digs
Excavator fitted with an auger drilling holes on a Gold Coast site

Gold Coast · QLD

Excavator & auger hire, dry or wet

Dry hire the machine, or book a hands-on carpenter-operator who understands set-out, brings shovels and picks, and jumps in to help. Turnkey and fully insured.

Choose your hire

Same fleet, two ways to book it.

Dry hire

$200/day + GST

Hirer insurance and full liability. Delivery is $150 each way, or self-pickup. Return full of fuel.

Wet hire

$125/hour + GST

Three-hour minimum. A turnkey, fully insured operator who turns up with a brain, shovels and picks.

Option 01

Dry Hire

1.8t machine only — you supply the operator

$200/day + GST

  • You supply the ticketed operator
  • $150 delivery each way or self-pickup
  • Excavator, auger & hydraulic hitch included
  • Return the machine full of fuel
Book dry hire

Option 02

Wet Hire

Machine + operator — confirmed on request

$125/hour + GST

  • Subject to operator availability
  • 3-hour minimum applies
  • Qualified carpenter-operators
  • Turnkey and fully insured
Book wet hire

The fleet

1.8 Tonne Excavator

1.8 Tonne Excavator

One compact rubber-tracked machine that fits a 900mm side gate. Supplied with excavator bucket, auger drive and hydraulic hitch attachments.

Auger Attachment

Auger Attachment

150mm to 600mm flights for fence posts, deck stumps, pier holes and tree planting. Rock augers available on request.

  • Post & pier holes
  • Pool excavation
  • Site levelling
  • Trenching & drainage
  • Driveway prep
  • Stump & rubbish removal

Get a quote

Tell us the job and whether you want the machine on its own or with a driver. We reply the same day, seven days a week.

Servicing

  • Southport
  • Burleigh Heads
  • Robina
  • Coomera
  • Palm Beach
  • Nerang
  • Currumbin
  • Hope Island
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