Wet hire
from $140/hr · 3-hr min — the $420 minimum call
1.8t mini $140/hr, bobcat + tipper combo $170/hr, 5t excavator + truck $195/hr. Float and setup are real — the minimum is what makes the day honest.
Wet hire · Maddington & the south-east
WANDOO EARTHMOVING Bobcat, excavator & tipper wet hire — the right machine, the honest hours, across Perth's south-east.
Ticketed operators · $20M public liability · Since 2010
SINCE 2010Sixteen years of pads, digs and site cleans in the south-east corridor.
$20M LIABILITYPublic liability held and current — certificate with every quote.
TICKETED & VERIFIEDWhite card and plant competencies on every operator — ask to sight them.
DBYD 1100We lodge the Dial Before You Dig referral before any dig — it's free, and it's the law done properly.
Machine Match Estimator
Match the machine
before the phone call
Pick the job and the access. We'll match the machine, show you the cut, and print the same job card we'd read you over the phone — hours, rate, and what to allow for. Operator and fuel included in every rate.
The job
The access
MACHINEBOBCAT + TIPPER COMBO · $170/HR
ON SITE5–7 HRS
MACHINE TIME$850–$1,190
ALLOW FORPAD SAND AT COST · COMPACTION CERT (GEOTECH) AT COST
ALL-IN TYPICAL
PLATE · S70-CLASS BOBCAT + 3 T TIPPER · 1.5 M WIDE
Float and setup are real — the 3-hour minimum is what makes the day honest.
Wet hire minimum 3 hrs — the $420 minimum call (3 hrs × $140 mini), stated on every quote.
SAND PAD · STANDARD ACCESSMATCHED · BOBCAT + TIPPER COMBO
1.8t Mini$140/hr990 mm tracks — fits a 1.1 m gate
Bobcat + Tipper$170/hr1.5 m wide — the workhorse combo
5t Excavator + Truck$195/hr1.9 m wide — bulk cut & cart
Wet hire & site works
Honest rates,
stated up front
Every rate includes our operator and fuel. Every quote states the minimum, the float, and what's billed at cost — before the machine starts.
Site cleans
from $510
Between-trades cleans and block tidy-ups, typically 3–5 hours with the combo. Green waste and tip fees at cost if we cart off.
Sand pads
from $850
Pad prep, levelled to string and compacted in lifts. Compaction certificate arranged through a geotech if your builder needs one — at cost.
Pool digs
from $2,800
Typically $2,800–$4,200 including sand cart-off. Tip and sand disposal fees are the variable — itemised at cost, never marked up.
Driveway prep
from $680
Boxed out to −150 mm and trimmed ready for your concreter. Road base delivered at cost if you want us to supply it.
Soakwells
from $380 each
Supplied, dug in and connected — sized to your downpipes. Council stormwater rules differ by suburb; we check yours before we quote.
From the pad
Word gets around
the south-east
Pad went down Tuesday, passed compaction first test Thursday. The geotech certificate was arranged before I'd thought to ask for it.
I book the combo one Friday a month. Same operator every time, and the invoice matches the phone quote to the dollar.
Pool dig started 7am, sand was gone by 2. Tip fees were on the invoice at cost, itemised — exactly what they said on the phone.
Reviews are demonstration copy — this is a fictional business. A live build would carry your real review feed.
Service area
Based in Maddington,
working the south-east
If your block is inside the ring, the float's included. Past Byford or out toward Serpentine we still come — the float's quoted separately and printed on the quote, not discovered on the invoice.
- Maddington
- Gosnells
- Thornlie
- Kenwick
- Canning Vale
- Huntingdale
- Southern River
- Harrisdale
- Forrestdale
- Langford
- Beckenham
- Kelmscott
- Armadale
- Byford
Straight answers
What people ask
before they book
Do you do wet hire or dry hire?
Wet only — our machines come with our operators, fuel included. It's an insurance line we won't cross: the operator's competencies and our $20M liability travel with the machine, and that only works if we're the ones in the seat.
Why is there a 3-hour minimum?
Floating a machine to your block, setting up and getting it home again is real work that happens whether the dig takes one hour or six. Three hours is the smallest honest job — that's the $420 minimum call on the mini, and it's stated on every quote, never discovered on the invoice.
Can you get through my gate?
The 1.8t mini runs 990 mm tracks and fits through a 1.1 m opening. Measure the narrowest point of the run — gate, side path, air-con unit — and we'll ask you for it on the phone. If the mini's the only fit, the job takes more hours with a smaller bucket, and the estimator above shows you that honestly before we quote.
Who deals with underground services?
We do. We lodge the Dial Before You Dig referral (call 1100 or byda.com.au — it's free) before every job, and we don't put a bucket in the ground until the plans are back. If your block has unmarked private services, we locate before we dig.
What happens to the spoil?
Carted off in our tipper and weighed over the tip bridge. Tip and disposal fees vary by facility and by what's in the ground — they're passed through at cost and itemised on the invoice, never marked up. Clean sand can sometimes be sold on; if yours is, we say so and it comes off the bill.
Do you level pads for granny flats?
Yes — pad prep and compaction to your builder's spec, levelled to string. If the builder needs a compaction certificate we arrange the geotech testing at cost, and we hold the pad until it passes.
Site-works quote
Tell us the job,
we'll call before knock-off
Quotes are free and they're specific — machine, hours, minimum and float, in writing. Booked out this week? We'll say so straight instead of leaving you waiting.
Request received
Thanks — your quote request has been received. We'd call you back before knock-off today to talk through the job, and if the week's booked out we'd say so straight.
This is a demonstration page for a fictional business — nothing was sent anywhere. On a live build, this enquiry would land in the operator's job-management system with an SMS acknowledgment to you.