Excavator production
Hourly production in bank and loose yards and the hours to dig a job.
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- Your own numbers, worked out as often as you like
- The full dig and haul plan you can print or save to My work
- 4 cited sources, linked, with the checks to make
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Example result · fictional numbers
What you get: dig and haul plan
Worked out by this tool from its default inputs. Its role plan lets you run your own numbers, print the sheet and save it.
6 trucks on a 3.0-mile haul, 162 BCY an hour at $5.62 a bank yard, 4.1 days for the job
- Loose production
- 203 LCY/h
- Bank production
- 162 BCY/h
- Hours for the job
- 37.0 h (4.1 days at 9 h)
- Cycles per hour (at efficiency)
- 150
Truck loading and haul cycle
- Bucket payload per pass
- 1.35 LCY (1.50 CY at 90% fill)
- Passes per truck
- 11, loading 14.0 LCY of the 14.0 LCY body
- Load time per truck
- 3.7 min
- Truck cycle
- 19.9 min: load 3.7 min, haul 7.2 min, dump 3.0 min, return 6.0 min
- Trucks to keep the excavator busy
- 6 trucks (5.42 exactly)
- Production with that fleet
- 162 BCY an hour (203 LCY)
Also on the sheet
- Fleet what-if · 4 lines, starting with “5 trucks”
- Job cost and schedule (6 trucks) · 5 lines, starting with “Hourly spread”
- Site checks before digging · 3 lines, starting with “Utility locates”
The plain-words read of this example
Each truck takes 11 passes and 3.7 min to load, and its round trip is 19.9 min, so 6 trucks keep the excavator busy. That fleet moves about 162 bank yards an hour at a $910.00 hourly spread, or $5.62 a bank yard. The 6,000 BCY job takes 37.0 hours (4.1 days), 536 truckloads and about $33,703.70 to dig and haul. Run 6 trucks: the excavator stays busy and it is the lowest cost per bank yard of the three. Time real cycles in the first hour against the handbook method, and call 811 before digging.
4 cited sources
- Caterpillar Performance Handbook, Edition 49 (excavators and hauling units) (Caterpillar, via MacAllister Machinery (Cat dealer download page))
- 29 CFR 1926.651, Specific excavation requirements (Electronic Code of Federal Regulations)
- Call 811 before you dig (Common Ground Alliance)
- FAR 31.105(d)(2), Construction equipment ownership and operating costs (Acquisition.gov (Federal Acquisition Regulation))
Plus 5 step-by-step checks, a print layout and a link that reopens it with your numbers.