Plate Compactor

• $700 HF - 210 lb weight = 17x21" plate - 65 ft/min travel, 3600 lb 6.5 hp, 5500 vib/min [1]. Manual [2]. 5500 sf/hr. Driveway is 15'*75'= 1100 sf so that we have one pass per 15 minutes.
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  No reverse or paver rubber.
• $340/week or $85/day from Home Depot [3] or week $340 Rentall [4]

• 710 lb weight 9000 lb force 17x35 inch plate $10k [5]. '4000 lb force' for same area-time (HF is faster thus less force but more of it thus equivalent to a higher force) as $700 HF compactor. 9300 sf/hr
• Superhandy - 7 hp $500 [6]