Cost of renting a dozer

Most companies won't rent a dozer to your average slap dick like yourself unless you open a commercial acct and have a million dollar insurance policy.

Do you have those things?

there was a place in Ascension who delivered a backhoe to me for a week. Think i paid like $700 for the week. I don't know if they would rent a dozer though.

What exactly is the average of a slap dick?

I hadn't even thought of that... but I bet you're right.

You would be waayyy better off paying someone who owns a dozer by the hour to do the work you want. Last time I had any work done on my land it was about $125 an hour. Someone who operates a dozer for a living can do the job a lot more efficiently and cheaply than you can. Plus, if something tears up (very common) its on them and not you.

I paid $80 an hour for a C480 and operator. Some things are left to someone that knows what they are doing.

Bulldozers are a lot of fun to drive. Got to doze an old slave house when I was in highschool.

$70-90/hr is about what most guys charge, depending on the equipment. I have heard of guys renting out dozers to individuals on a weekly basis. Put an ad in the classifieds on one of those sportsman sites and see if you get a bite. I'd be willing to bet there is someone with a sizer sitting idle that could use a couple hundred bucks.

If you have some serious work to be done with big trees, go ahead and pay more for the bigger dozer. It will be cheaper in the end to pay 125/hr for a big one to snap trees like a toothpick than to pay 90 having someone spend an hour on a tree that won't fall.

Louisiana Machinery (CAT Rental Store)as well as most of the "big box" rental houses like United, RSC, Hertz, etc. will rent to you. They will charge you for insurance unless you have a business policy that they can use to waive their own. Your cost will be tied to size and type of dozer, delivery, insurance, length of rental, and fuel usage, unless you have a source of diesel to refuel it. Like renting a car and returning it on "E", they will all bend you over on the fuel charge so avoid it if you can.