Looking for suggestions. I want to move a mini excavator, 2000 pounds, and was wanting to rent a open cargo trailer from the local U-Haul. $30/12 hrs. This is cheaper than the equipment rental doing the moving, $120/round trip. Any other ways to do this...? Suggestions?

Thanks

 

What kind of excavator? look it up and confirm the weights.
You would be safer renting a lo-boy trailer. like a 16'+ or something.

Those little U-haul trailers might be a bit strained.

 

I did the homework. Capacity fits.

 

Find a rental outfit which provides the excavator on a trailer. Just hitch it up. Stuff like that always comes on a trailer out here.

 

If it only weighs 2000 lbs , put it in the back of your truck...

this load weighed 2450lbs , all in the back of my truck:



As you can see , the truck still sat level with that much weight in it :

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i dont know how big it is.....but i doubt it will fit in the bed

 

The excavator is labeled "mini-excavator" but still too large to fit within the wheel wells.

 

some guys here in NH use their f550s to haul kubota minis on bed their tracks extend out they drive them down ramps they said the machines weigh over 6k and a friend has a takuchi mini that weighs over 10 its a full cab machine.I cant imagine a machine that weighs 2k would be over 4' wide and still have a swingarm boom and counter weight I have seen those little ingersol 40hp backhoes which fit in a bed and weigh almost 4k.Not saying you are wrong just thinking if is that big may weigh more than that afterall most of the weight is above the under carriage.as for me I use my deckover to haul all that stuff usually my backhoe.I had a little skidsteer on the other day about a 65 hp machine was pretty heavy. owner said 3500 lbs my backhoe weighs 9600 and this felt close to it.Bill

 

I agree . Even the smallest mini excavators I know of weigh over 3,000 lbs . I wouldn't trust the tires and brakes on a U-Haul unless it was an auto hauler .

 

Your rite on the skid loader being heavier than 3500 pounds. A 65 horse machine is gona be in the 7500-8500 pound range depending on the brand and bucket and such.