Bri963
Well-known member
You’d need a fair haul to give advantage to a small excavator/dumper combo over a big tracked skid like a Cat 289 or 299. Unless it’s in rock, then scratch that last comment. Sometimes it’s us that need to be a bit more open minded instead of reaching for an excavator every time..A couple of years back I watched two 13 tonne excavators and two dumpers doing a site strip and stone placement that a 953 could have done on its own in not much more time.Digger and dumper will run rings round a skid steer its just that the yanks don't know any better. I'm not even sure if they've even seen a dumper.