Welcome to The Plant Yard's blog, your comprehensive resource for navigating the world of construction equipment hire.
Our goal is to provide you with the explanations, assistance, and comparisons you need to make informed decisions for your projects. Whether you're seeking to understand the features of different equipment types, or need help choosing the right tools for the job, our goal is to offer insights to guide you.
We aim to explain crucial aspects like safety tips, feature explanations, and equipment comparisons, ensuring you have the knowledge to get the most from the equipment you hire from us.
First Aid Cages and Crane Personnel Work Boxes are available for hire from The Plant Yard, Sydney. An important point to note is that persons suspended from a crane shall only be accommodated in first aid cages or crane personnel work boxes designed for that purpose and the boxes and cages must come with current engineering certification.
Read MoreAt The Plant Yard, we offer a variety of dangerous goods storage solutions for hire. These solutions include; chemical storage cabinets, flammable storage cupboards, dangerous goods storage containers and environmental spill pallet bunds. Having correct chemical saftey practices is extremely important on construction sites to ensure works can be completed safely.
Read MoreOur self tipping crane bins, also known as self dumping excavation bins, have a capacity of up to 3 cubic metres and are an efficient method for disposal of large volumes of waste including excavation material.
Read MoreNeeding to buy traffic control signs for your works can prove very expensive, especially when a wide range of signs are needed only for a short amount of time. Our road signage rental is a cost effective alternative. We have recently updated our road safety sign page to include our new road sign options and varieties so you can see signs will best suit your works.
As part of The Plant Yard’s lifting equipment range, we also have forkable & craneable A frames for hire. They are perfect for transporting glass panels and other flat items such as kitchen stone tops around your construction site.
Read MoreOur concrete tremie pipes are used to pour concrete underwater in a way which avoids washout of the cement from the mix due to water contact with the concrete while it is flowing.
Read MoreThe Plant Yard has the right spreader beam for lifting containers & site sheds. Spreader beam can sometimes be confused with lifting beams. Spreader beam lifting ensures that the compression forces of the lifting cranes lifting chains are reduced and consequently do not damage the shed barge and roofs, or bend long items such as roof sheets.
Read MoreDust controls and suppression on a larger scale on site can be monitored and contolled via the use of a portable forkable water tanker. This 2500 litre unit can be lifted onto the back of a small truck or trailer and be used to spray water on site via the sites own personnel and trucks, thereby eliminating the need to hire an external water tanker and driver providing greatly flexibility and cost savings on site.
Read MoreFresh water storage tanks with electric pumps are now available for hire at The Plant Yard. Some construction projects may be located in areas where the water mains have not yet been installed. Sites such as new subdivisions or road works are examples of these projects.
The Plant Yard, Sydney has portable showers available for hire . During the early stages in a project the issue of site amenities can be addressed through the use of site sheds such as ablution blocks.
Read MoreMicron Sand Filters are now available for hire from The Plant Yard and can be used in applications such as waste water or storm water treatment on construction sites. Such sand filters can be used in combination with sedimentation.
The sand filter uses sands as a natural filtration substance to clean water similar to underground aquifer operations by the water passing through various layers of sand and porous rock.
Temporary Power Site Boards are now available for hire from The Plant Yard Sydney. These temporary site power boards provide a solution to the supply of temporary power to building sites such as new sites, refurbishment or other construction projects or in situations where temporary power boards might be required.
Read MoreThe Wheelie Bin Universal 250 Bin Lifter is now available for hire from The Plant Yard Sydney. For the top of the line when it comes to safe wheelie bin lifting and tipping, the liftmaster bin lifter is the right machine.
Read MoreHeavy Duty Steel Trestles sometimes called stillage’s are now available for hire from The Plant Yard Sydney. Construction sites find these heavy duty steel trestles a valuable asset in many situations including but not limited to providing the ability to land reinforcement onto them and not directly onto the formwork deck.
