Big Snapper Bobcats tip truck loaded with a bobcat and mini excavator

Wet hire, operators included

Operated bobcat & digger hire

The right machine with an experienced operator, delivered to your site. No licence needed, no bond, no weekend lost.

  • Operator included
  • We transport it
  • No licence needed

Operated hire

Machine, operator, sorted

Our machines come with our operators, so you get the digging done, not just the digger. From our Waihi and Thames yards we transport the gear to your site across the Bay of Plenty, Coromandel and Waikato, from Tauranga and Katikati through to Morrinsville, Cambridge and Hamilton, and get straight to work.

Tight access

Compact gear

Bobcats and mini diggers for tight access, landscaping, driveways, section tidy ups and backyard projects.

Bulk work

Heavy gear

Excavators up to bulk civil size, tip trucks and transporters for large platforms, subdivisions and rural earthworks.

Bobcat skid steer loaded on the tip truck with a Cat digger behind

Bobcat hire

Bobcat with operator

The go-anywhere machine. Our bobcats handle levelling and grading in tight access, backfilling, spreading metal and topsoil, section tidy-ups and site cleanups, in spaces a big digger cannot work.

Tell us the job and the access, we quote machine, operator and travel up front, and the work is done to level. As a guide, most bobcat work runs at $120 to $150 + GST per hour with the operator included.

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Cat excavator working among the grasses on a wet morning

Excavator hire

Excavator with operator

From mini diggers for trenching, footings and drainage through to heavy excavators for bulk digs, driveways and farm work. GPS machine control is available when the levels have to match a design.

Same deal: one quote covering machine, operator and travel, sized to the job. As a guide, operated excavator work runs from $140 to $180 + GST per hour depending on machine size.

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Wet hire vs dry hire

Machine, or job done?

Looking at dry hire? A rental digger makes sense if you have the tickets and the time. If you want the hole dug rather than the machine parked, operated hire usually works out faster and often cheaper.

Dry hire elsewhere

You operate

  • You need the tickets
  • Bond and insurance on you
  • You arrange transport
  • Your weekend, your learning curve

Operated hire with us

We operate

  • No licence needed
  • No bond
  • We transport it both ways
  • Built to level, first go
Transporter truck loaded with a Cat digger ready to head to site

The fleet

Gear that turns up

Well maintained machines and operators who have run them for years. If a job needs something we do not carry, we will tell you straight and point you to the right people.

Get in touch

Ready to start?

Tell us the job and the access and we will recommend the machine, give you a price, and lock in a time.

Free on-site visit. Rob personally reviews every enquiry.

Call 0800 702 105