3 Tonne Power Swivel Dumper Hire

Photo is for illustration — the machine supplied may be a different make, but will always be a 3 tonne power swivel dumper to the same specification.

This is the Thwaites MACH573, the power swivel version of their 3 tonne range. The power swivel is the part worth understanding. On a standard front-tip dumper the load goes out over the front, so working alongside a trench or a wall means constantly turning the machine round to line up. This one rotates the skip hydraulically, from the seat, to discharge over either side — so you can drive along a trench and place the fill exactly where you want it without the shunting back and forth. No getting off, and no manual effort to swing the skip across.

It's also our highest-payload machine, and the one we recommend alongside a Kubota U27 on larger-scale groundwork — its capacity keeps pace with a bigger excavator's output, so material handling doesn't become the bottleneck. A genuine step up from the 1 tonne, not a marginal one.

• Backfilling trenches without repositioning the machine
• Discharging alongside a wall or into a confined space
• Larger-scale groundwork alongside a 2.7 tonne excavator
• Moving high volumes of spoil, aggregate or material
• Sites where a smaller dumper would mean too many return trips
• Construction and larger landscaping projects

At 1650mm wide, this needs a genuine site access route — worth checking before booking if space is tight.