Solution: a six-month CAT 826 rental from Littler Machinery

When the landfill’s new primary compactor was delayed by six months, the air-space timeline for its next cell looked hopelessly tight. Shutting the tip even for a day would have meant lost revenue and a scramble for costly temporary capacity. In less than a week, Littler Machinery delivered a 2024, CAT 826 compactor on a bespoke six-month rental and kept waste moving without interruption—something no other UK supplier could match. 

Purpose-built for landfill duty since its debut, the 41-tonne CAT 826 gives operators dense passes, robust guarding and simplified daily service that dozers cannot match. Its blades and heavy 1.5-m drum cleats let sites hit target densities sooner, stretching each day’s available air-space and curbing fuel burn in the process. 

With the rental machine onsite the civil team continued to compact waste while simultaneously excavating, lining and commissioning the new cell. Operators reported quieter cabs, roughly fifty-percent lower fuel consumption relative to the ageing unit it replaced and, most critically, minimal downtime – thanks to all inclusive maintenance support.

The new cell opened on the original hand-over date, avoiding haul-off and emergency disposal fees while delivering five percent extra usable air-space through tighter compaction.

The landfill has already pencilled in another CAT 826 rental to assist during a period of peak demand, citing Littler’s ability to mobilise specialised equipment faster than anyone else and the demonstrable performance edge of the machine itself. For waste-management operators facing procurement gaps, the case proves that a strategic short-term hire can be the difference between stalled construction and seamless growth.