JOHOR BAHRU · ISKANDAR PUTERI · GELANG PATAH
Short Tail Excavator Rental
in Johor Bahru
Reduced Tail Swing · 1.68 m Rear Swing · 23-Tonne Class
Fully Operated. CIDB-Certified. 24H Mobilisation.
Short Tail · Reduced Swing
What a Short Tail Excavator Is For
Same digging power as a full-size 20-tonner, with the counterweight pulled in tight over the tracks. That is what lets the machine work with its back to something it must not hit.
Short tail excavator loading out from a data centre site at Sedenak Tech Park, Kulai.Hire a short tail when the job looks like this
- ✓Boundary and party-wall work: digging alongside an existing structure, fence line or neighbouring lot without the counterweight swinging over it.
- ✓Live roads and traffic corridors: one lane closed instead of two, because the tail stays inside the machine’s own footprint.
- ✓Congested data centre and industrial plots: multiple trades working side by side, structures already going up nearby.
- ✓Trenching between installed services: pipe runs, cable trenches and drains where there is no room to slew wide.
- ✓Basement, podium and confined earthwork: where a conventional 20-tonner cannot rotate safely.
Specification
What 1.68 m of Tail Swing Buys You
Working specification for our 23-tonne short tail class. The arm and bucket fitted to the unit we send is confirmed on enquiry.
Tail swing is not a sliding scale you can negotiate. Across every brand in this class, machines fall into two groups: conventional machines at 2.8 to 3.0 m behind the slew centre, and reduced-tail machines at 1.5 to 1.7 m. There is nothing in between. So when a site gives you 2 m to the hoarding, a conventional 20-tonner is not slightly too big — it simply cannot turn there, and no operator skill fixes that.
| Class / operating weight | 23,200 kg, 23-tonne class |
|---|---|
| Rear-end swing radius | ≈ 1.68 m (vs ≈ 2.89 m on a conventional 20-tonner) |
| Engine | Isuzu 4HK1 · 4-cylinder turbocharged, intercooled · 5,193 cc |
| Rated power | 122 kW (164 hp) at 2,000 rpm |
| Max digging depth | 6.22 m (standard arm) |
| Max reach at ground level | 9.33 m |
| Bucket range | 0.54 – 1.22 m³ |
| Transport width | 2.80 m over tracks |
| Supplied as | Fully operated: machine, operator, fuel and low-loader transport |
Figures are the manufacturer’s published specification for this class. Bucket capacity, arm length and ground pressure vary with the configuration fitted. Tell us your ground condition and access and we will confirm the exact set-up before mobilisation.
What 2 Metres of Clearance Actually Means
Tail swing is the number contractors find out about last, usually on the morning the machine cannot turn. Both machines below are working the same distance from the same hoarding. The tracks never move. Only the house slews — and that is where the job is won or lost.
Plan view, drawn to scale at 40 pixels per metre. Boundary set at 2.0 m from the slew centre — a normal urban site condition in Johor Bahru.
This is why the class exists. Reduced-tail machines are not a compromise version of a big excavator — they are the same excavator with the counterweight pulled in tight over the tracks. You keep the reach and the breakout force. What you gain is the ability to work beside a live traffic lane, inside a hoarding line, between finished structures, or in a basement where a conventional machine would clip a wall on every turn.
Documentation
Our Own Machines, Start to Finish
On a data centre or infrastructure site, the machine does not get through the gate — the paperwork does. Here is what comes with this unit.
- Our own machine, our own fleetEvery machine we send out is our own: booking, operator, servicing and anything that comes up on site. One company, one number to call
- InsuredMobile plant & equipment policy, current, covering the machine on site and in transit
- Serviced monthlySigned 14-point service, maintenance and inspection sheet: oils, coolant, greasing, leak check, tracks, filters, final drive, swing motor
- CIDB-registered operatorEXH2 Hydraulic Excavator Operator competency, Level 2, registration current
We hand you the submission pack. Ownership grant, insurance, three months of service history, operator registration and competency certificate, and the machine specification, compiled for main-contractor submission before the machine moves in, so your safety officer is not chasing us on day one.
Project Case
Short Tail Excavator on a Sedenak Tech Park Data Centre
Kulai, Johor: congested plot, multiple trades on site
Data centre plots in Johor are some of the most congested earthwork sites in the state. Boundaries are tight, several trades work the same plot at once, and structures go up while excavation is still running next to them. A machine that swings its counterweight two and a half metres past its own tracks becomes a supervision problem on a site like that.
Our short tail unit worked a data centre project at Sedenak Tech Park, Kulai, and demobilised on schedule once its scope closed. The site cleared promptly for the following phase, with no machine sitting idle waiting for a low loader.
Read the site record: Short Tail Excavator Demob from a Sedenak Tech Park Data Centre.
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Every operator is CIDB-registered, JPJ and NIOSH-licensed. PPE-compliant and experienced on active construction sites.
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Machine, operator, transport and fuel, all in one rental. No chasing separate contractors or managing multiple vendors.
📅 13 Years of Project Experience
Since 2013, supporting earthwork, infrastructure and data centre projects across Johor Bahru, Iskandar Puteri and Gelang Patah.
Frequently Asked Questions: Short Tail Excavator Rental in Johor Bahru
Yes. Every rental is fully operated: CIDB, JPJ and NIOSH-licensed operator included as standard. We do not offer machine-only hire.
Within 24 hours of confirmed booking. Our base in Skudai covers Johor Bahru, Iskandar Puteri, Gelang Patah and surrounding areas with fast turnaround.
Only the rear overhang. A short tail (Hitachi calls it US, for Ultra Short) carries the same boom, arm and digging power as a conventional machine of similar weight, but the counterweight is pulled in over the tracks. Ours swings about 1.68 m behind the slew centre against roughly 2.89 m on a conventional 20-tonner. Over 1.2 m less tail sweep, with no loss of reach or breakout force.
When the machine has to work with its back close to something it must not hit: a boundary wall, an existing structure, a live traffic lane, installed services, or another trade working alongside. On congested data centre and industrial plots in Johor it is often the difference between one lane closed and two, or between working and waiting for the neighbouring trade to move.
We quote by the month for project work, and by the day or week for short scopes. Tell us the site and the duration and we will price it the way that suits the job: machine, operator, fuel and low-loader transport included in one rate.
Johor Bahru, Iskandar Puteri, Gelang Patah, Skudai, Kulai, Senai, Nusajaya, Pasir Gudang and surrounding Johor areas. Nationwide projects on request.
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