DPL Excavations

13/10/2026

My Name is Dan the owner and operator of DPL Excavations. I have a 5.5T excavator & 4T Posi combo in a tipper that can cart 18T. I am a skilled operator with a landscape trade background and also many years on motorway and civil construction sites.

About the gear…

5.5T Kubota with tilt hitch, 1200, 600, 450, 300 buckets
Attachments
- Auger with halo alignment tool - 300 earth/rock, 450 earth & 450 dedicated rock augers
- rock breaker
- grab
- compaction wheel
- broom

4T case positrack with 4 in 1 and tilting hitch
Attachments
-power broom
-pallet forks

Volvo FL0 8x4 tipper
8.1m long tipper body
Capable of 18T payload

11/10/2026

Fun couple of days in Karalee this weekend! Tight access for a 500x500x1m B premium grade sandstone block wall down the side of a house with only 3.2m between existing fence and new house. Take off the eve and gutter and there only about 2.2m, not enough room to drive the 5.5t down and a smaller machine wouldnt be able to lift the blocks. So I dug from both ends and laid the blocks sideways to how I would conventionally do it. Turned out pretty well I think.

31/08/2025

Better late than never... a driveway in Regency Downs in April. Customer had water coming down driveway creating deep ruts as well as water/mud entering into their shed rendering it useless. After 2 days of reshaping the front yard battling lots of mud the driveway was ready for roadbase. Due to the amount of run off from the road we reshaped drains out the front as well as made the call to use 50T of 4% CTB (cement treated roadbase) This goes down like normal roadbase with a roller but after a few hours sets hard and is resistant to rutting out for future years of low maintenance driveway use.
All of the dirt from the front was used to level up an entertaining area at the rear of the house.
In the months since completion there has been some heavy storms and the customer is impressed with the results.

31/08/2025

A project i started back on 24th of October last year. 20x40m flat multi-purpose are for riding horses, cricket pitch and family functions. 3m height difference from one diagonal to the other, cut and fill followed by underturf and hydro couch seed. Plenty of rain after the hydro couch making the surface go from dirt to grass (pic with horse) in 4 weeks.
Followed up with a round yard cut and fill with laser level, 100mm of roadbase sourced locally from Russell's quarry. Then Alfred hit - between waiting for rain to stop and not being busy on civil jobs i finally got back to my very patient customers in August to finish the job. 22 panels and 1 gate, 51m of conveyor rubber and over 300 screws we have 1 happy customer

25/10/2024

25/10/2024

We've been busy over the last couple of weeks completing a landscaping job in Mount Crosby. Our client is extremely happy with the results of the new recycled railway sleeper fence, exposed aggregate concrete pad & stairs, garden & turf areas including a fully automatic irrigation system. Off to the next one 🙂

01/09/2024

Been on a civil job for the last month. Concrete removal, excavation around services, subgrade prep, top soiling... just to.mention a few tasks 🙂
Heavy duty Tiger grab making really easy work of concrete slab removal 💪 and loading out 🚛

12/07/2024

End to another great week at DPL. Finished a retaining wall that was started last week as well as a slab prep (through a tight access) for a loyal concrete customer. Get in contact if you need anything done.