What is a Mini Excavator?

A mini excavator is compact digging machine with a weight capacity ranging up to 10 tons. Mini-excavators are popular with contractors, landscapers, and land owners for their ease of use, performance, and versatility in tight spaces. Mini-excavators are also easy to transport: even the largest units can be moved with a large pickup and gooseneck trailer.

What Jobs are good for Mini Excavators?

Mini-excavators reduce the need for post hole diggers, shovels, and wheel barrows, allowing you to get more work done in less time, and with a reduced risk of back and shoulder injury. From digging holes to trenching for electrical, gas, water, or sewer lines, to tearing down walls or old buildings, landscaping, and digging room for foundations, swimming pools, or ponds, a mini-excavator is the closest thing there is a hydraulic multi tool!

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Augers for Mini Excavators

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Our augers offer different speed and torque options for work in a variety of soils. We’ve engineered their speed to extract soil efficiently and their torque to prevent stalling in dense ground. Select from a range of auger bits.

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Specifications
Attachment Model Machine Model Drive Shaft Torque* Drive Method
A11 301.5-302.7 815 lb ft Direct Drive
A23 302.7-304 1700 lb ft Direct Drive
A41 303-306 3037 lb ft Single Planetary
A68 305-309 5034 lb ft Single Planetary
*at maximum pressure

 

Buckets for Mini Excavators

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The shape of our buckets improves digging, loading and material retention. Compared to most competition, we have more capacity per every inch of width. And each is made of high-strength, tempered steel. Select from a range of bucket teeth.

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Specifications
Attachment ModelMachine ModelWidth RangeCapacity Range
Digging300.9-302.79-28 in0.018-0.145 yd³
Ditch CleaningAll28-63 in0.035-0.55 yd³
Tilting Ditch Cleaning301.4-305.540-63 in0.071-0.366 yd³
Heavy Duty303-30812-36 in0.065-0.51 yd³
Heavy Duty Capacity305 & 305.512-36 in0.107-0.392 yd³
Heavy Duty Rock307 & 30824-30 in0.30-0.405 yd³
Mud/GradingAll39-59 in0.12-0.68 yd³

 

Compaction Wheels for Mini Excavators

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Cat Compaction Wheels provide a low cost option for trench compaction. The wheels feature tapered roller bearings and tampered foot design with static pad rollers, to allow for smooth operation and achieving a high level of compaction. Six to ten passes are usually adequate to achieve compaction in normal soil conditions, dependent on the required compaction levels.

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Specifications
Machine ModelsWeightWidth
301.4-301.7342-569 lbs11-22 in
302.2-302.7354-583 lbs11-22 in
303-304357-586 lbs11-22 in
305-305.5374-601 lbs11-22 in
301.4-305.5389-622 lbs11-22 in
307-308915-1945 lbs11-35 in

 

Couplers for Mini Excavators

New, Used, and Rental Attachments

Our Dual Lock Pin Grabber Couplers allow operators to change attachments in seconds, increasing job efficiency and enabling one machine to do multiple tasks. We offer two, easy-to-use options: hydraulic (controlled from the cab) and mechanical. And all Cat models include primary and secondary locking systems to ensure what you put on your machine, stays on.

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Specifications
Attachment ModelsMachine ModelsWeight
Mechanical Dual Lock™ Coupler301.4-30832-195 lbs
Hydraulic Dual Lock™ Coupler303, 30890-205 lbs
Hydraulic Dual Lock™ Tilt Coupler305-308245-436 lbs

 

Flail Mowers for Mini Excavators

New, Used, and Rental Flail Mowers

Cat Flail Mowers are designed for high performance cutting of vegetation, saplings, and undergrowth from overgrown agricultural areas, retention ponds, and forested terrain. The hydraulic flail mowers reduce weeds, saplings, shrubs and small trees into mulched material, making them ideal for environmental maintenance applications, such as mowing along ditches, fence rows and retention ponds, controlling overgrowth, and cleaning up high banks and slopes.

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Specifications
Model Machine Models* Overall
Width
Working
Width
Swinging Teeth
Per Drum
HMF110 305, 305.5 47 in 40 in 16
HMF210 308 47 in 40 in 16
*Requires a drain kit and guarding on machine

 

Hammers for Mini Excavators

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Our hammers were designed for hard hits, reducing rock and concrete materials. Each features an automatic shutoff and buffering system to reduce machine vibrations. And some of our hammers are fully enclosed to suppress noise.

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Specifications
Attachment ModelsExcavator ClassOperating WeightSound LevelEnergy ClassTool Diameter
B11-2 ton*183.2 lb122 dB147.5 ft·lbf1.6 in
B1s1-2 ton190.3 lb118 dB147.5 ft·lbf1.6 in
B21-3 ton252.9 lb128 dB213.9 ft·lbf1.8 in
B2s1-3 ton257.5 lb122 dB213.9 ft·lbf1.8 in
B42-5 ton350.5 lb128 dB272.9 ft·lbf2.1 in
B4s2-5 ton357.1 lb124 dB272.9 ft·lbf2.1 in
B64-9 ton571 lb128 dB501.5 ft·lbf2.7 in
B6s4-9 ton610.7 lb124 dB501.5 ft·lbf2.7 in
B86-9 ton771 lb133 dB848.2 ft·lbf3 in
B8s6-9 ton758.4 lb129 dB848.2 ft·lbf3 in
B97-10 ton1166.2 lb135 dB958.8 ft·lbf3.3 in
B9s7-10 ton1142 lb125 dB958.8 ft·lbf3.3 in
H35s1-2 ton286.6 lb120 dB300.2 ft·lbf1.6 in
H45s1-3 ton551.2 lb120 dB399.8 ft·lbf2 in
H55s3-6 ton760.6 lb120 dB599.6 ft·lbf2.3 in
H65s5-9 ton859.8 lb124 dB800.3 ft·lbf2.7 in
H80s7-9 ton937 lb120 dB1000.1 ft·lbf3 in
H95s7-10 ton1382.3 lb124 dB1500.2 ft·lbf3.4 in

*Operating weight includes hammer, standard tool and mounting bracket. **Beats per minute. †Pin-on Model

 

Cat Hydraulic Hammer Tool Change

Cat Hammers | Silenced vs. Non-silenced

 

Mulchers for Mini Excavators

New, Used, and Rental Mulchers

Cat Mulchers are designed for high performance cutting and mulching of vegetation, saplings, and undergrowth from overgrown agricultural areas and forested terrain. The hydraulic mulchers reduce saplings, shrubs and trees into mulched material, making it ideal for environmental maintenance, such as brush clearing and creating fire lanes. Other applications include: reclaiming untilled land, removing foliage from building construction sites and shredding pruned material and organic waste for biomass production.

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Specifications
ModelMachine ModelsOverall WeightWorking WidthFixed Teeth Per Drum
HM208307-31040 in32 in15
HM210307-31048 in40 in18

 

Rippers for Mini Excavators

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Built to cut through dense dirt, loosen rocky soil and break below the frost layer, Cat rippers are taking on some of the most challenging ground conditions. And because they’re made for specific Cat models, they can better transfer machine power into ripping power.

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Specifications
Shank Length Machine Models Width Height Tip Radius Weight
19 in 303-304 9.1 in 25.9 in 26 in 99 lb
27 in 305-306 10.7 in 32.4 in 32 in 134 lb
34 in 307-309 13.6 in 42.2 in 41 in 235 lb

 

Shears for Mini Excavators

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Our shears rotate 360 degrees for rapid repositioning and are designed with a straight, lower jaw to improve the cutting force.

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Specifications
ModelMachine ModelsTip ForceWeight*Jaw OpeningJaw Depth
S308303.5-30943.30 Sh Ton1,212.5 lb9.4 in11.4 in

 

Vibratory Plate Compactors for Mini Excavators

New, Used, and Rental Plate Compactors

Cover more ground with our vibratory plate compactor’s large surface and pack soil faster with its high-power pulses. We’ve even built in flexible isolators to guard against excessive vibrations.

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Specifications
ModelMachine ModelsImpulse ForceCycles Per MinuteBase Plate Width
CVP16302.7-305.516 kN220012 in
CVP40307, 30840 kN220023 in