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.
At The Plant Yard, we have a variety of crane bins for hire from our Sydney location. Our range of crane bins, also known as skip bins, are available in many shapes and sizes to suit the different needs of a construction site. Whether its on wheels, stationary or self tipping, we have it.
Read MoreOxygen and acetylene safety practices are extremely important when using for welding and more importantly, storing the gas cylinders. Whilst welding it is required for both gas cylinders to be contained within an oxy/acetylene trolley. However, when work is complete, storing oxygen and acetylene cylinders together is an incorrect and dangerous practice.
Read MoreInertia reels are used to reduce fall distance for when working at height. Reduction in fall distance equates to less chance of injury.
Read MoreDuring excavations, the surface can be impacted due to the water table. Especially during periods of excessive rain, the water tables become elevated. The use of large submersible water pumps for dewatering can lower the water table. This allows excavation and construction to continue within a dry environment. This, in turn, prevents ground subsidence (the sinking or caving in of soil).
Read MoreThis steel reinforcement lifting cage is specially designed to lift reinforcement or other long items vertically through penetrations in formwork or concrete slabs and has a safe working load of 1000 Kg
Read MoreHorizontal Stone Lifting Clamp Rock Grab SWL 4000 Kg for lifting and moving of Stones and Concrete Blocks
Read MoreFormwork Step Over Platforms also known as reo access platforms provide a safe access bridge on formwork decks as cross over points over exposed steel reinforcement beams, pipework, or other obstacles on a formwork deck.
Read MoreThe SafeWork NSW managing the work environment and facilities code of practice requires that all workers must have access to clean toilets while at work. Toilet facilities should be offered to workers where reasonably practicable, rather than depending on access to existing public toilets.
Read MoreIt has certainly been an interesting start to the decade. At The Plant Yard, we would like to let you know we are still in operation and have extended our hours in response to the updated Planning Act announced by Minister for Planning and Public Spaces earlier this week. We have always offered out of hours service, but now more so than ever.
Read MoreOur rumble grids, also known as shaker grids and wheel washes, are designed to remove mud and dirt from trucks and other vehicles leaving your construction site. This is a requirement by many Council DA’s and is built into many environmental and construction management plans under soil erosion control measures.
Read MoreHiring scaffolding for painting is the best and safest way to ensure a stable working platform when working at heights. Our aluminium scaffold is easy to assemble, mobile, lightweight and can also be used by electricians, insulators and interior decorators.
Read MoreIt is an exciting time for Western Sydney with a major airport, thriving business, housing and education magnet incoming over the next decade. At The Plant Yard, we are looking forward to being involved in what is one of Australia’s largest ever infrastructure projects. We look forward to supplying the western growth region with our construction hire equipment
Read MoreDuring bathroom renovations the loss of a home shower facility is a major inconvenience, with our portable shower hire, you can maintain this facility at home.
Read MoreOur new products include edge protection, mesh fencing, mesh panels, perimeter fences & safety fencing.
These products assist site managers meet work cover safety regulations. Good management of Site safety is extremely important to prevent accidents and provide a safe working environment. Please contact us if you would like to know more about these products.
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 MoreSafety on construction sites is the responsibility of all. When working from heights, whether it is the client, builder or workers, everybody has a duty to ensure the safety of themselves and others on site… At The Plant Yard, we provide several risk control methods for hire of varying National Standard hierarchy levels. Ensuring that the highest level of safety is always accessible.
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