Heavy equipment with an operator — excavator, crane truck, mobile crane
To dig a trench or foundation pit, unload slabs with a crane truck or lift loads onto a roof, people rent heavy equipment with an operator. Not sure which machine you need? Describe the job and site in an order, and operators will reply. If you know, compare by prices, photos and reviews.
Heavy equipment operators
How much heavy equipment rental costs
What affects the price
A machine for the job
A mini excavator for a tight yard, a backhoe loader and a full-size excavator each have a different hourly price.
Minimum hours
Equipment owners often charge for at least a few hours, so even a short job is billed at that minimum.
Getting to the site
The machine's trip to the site and back is often charged separately — by the hour or by the kilometer, especially out of town.
Soil and attachments
Clay, rocks or an old foundation slow the work down, and a hydraulic breaker, an auger or a grab may cost extra.
Load weight and boom reach
The heavier the load and the farther it has to go — over a fence or onto a roof — the more powerful the crane or crane truck you need.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find heavy equipment with an operator
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose heavy equipment with an operator
- 1
Whether the machine will fit
Compare the machine's size with the width of your gate and driveway. Ask whether there is room to park and turn, and whether it will crack your paving.
- 2
Reach and lifting capacity
For a crane or a crane truck, what matters is not only the weight of the load but how far it has to go: the longer the boom's reach, the less it lifts.
- 3
Who rigs the load
Ask whether a rigger comes with the crane or your own people will have to hook the load, and whether the operator has the right slings.
- 4
Idle time
Agree in advance whether you pay for hours when the machine stands waiting — for a dump truck, concrete or a clear driveway — and whether the drive from the base counts as working time.
- 5
Similar sites in the portfolio
A foundation pit next to a neighbor's house and a septic tank pit at a country house are different jobs. Look for photos of similar sites in the operator's portfolio.
What to put in the order
What needs doing: a trench, a foundation pit, a hole, unloading or lifting a load
Dimensions: trench length and depth, pit volume, the load's weight and size
Access: what the road is like, gate width, whether there is room for the machine to park
What is in the way: overhead wires, trees, walls nearby, pipes or cables underground
Whether soil or debris has to be hauled away and whether a dump truck is needed
The date you want and roughly how long the work will take
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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