Measure the areas, set the depths, and build earthworks rates from plant production, truck movements and disposal — instead of a spreadsheet full of guesses.
Earthworks pricing lives and dies on plant production. Build rates from excavator and truck hours, production rates and disposal costs:
Bulk cut to fill — 2,850m³ 20T excavator @ 120m³/hr → 23.8 hrs Trucks (6W) 9m³/load → 317 loads + fuel, operator, overhead, margin = defensible $/m³
Fieldlink measures areas and applies depths you control (or that are printed on the drawing). It won't pretend to compute true cut/fill volumes without elevation data — if only an area is available, it asks for a depth.
Build them into the rate — truck capacity, cycle counts and disposal costs per m³ — or carry them as separate measured items with their own rates.
Yes — apply waste/bulking percentages on measured quantities so loose volumes and truck movements reflect reality, not bank measure.
Yes — store plant and crew production assumptions in your Rate Library build-ups and reuse them job after job.
Takeoff → estimate → quote → job → crew & plant → field → safety & QA → cost → invoice. 30-day free trial, no credit card.
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