Steel Road Plate hire Sydney
Welcome to The Plant Yard, your first destination for robust steel road plate hire in Sydney.
Road plates are used for street crossings, covering trenches, covering road potholes, pits in roadways, temporary access over unstable or muddy terrain and they can also be used to temporarily cover holes to avoiding unnecessary back filling or metal plate for driveways. This can enable continued vehicle access during road works and excavations.
Our extensive inventory includes a wide range of heavy-duty metal road plates, catering to your project needs with varying lengths and thicknesses.
We carry a large range of heavy duty steel plates. Our range of steel plate sizes can be found in our new steel plate catalogue. If centre lifting plates are required, please let us know. Also, if you would like to know the steel plate weight and delivery terms, we can assist.
Our steel plate hire offers spans from 0.5m to 6m in length, featuring various widths and thicknesses ranging from 10mm to 45mm. Among these, we offer the RMS specified 40mm plates and an extensive selection in the popular 20mm and 25mm thicknesses—providing versatile options to meet your specific requirements.
Safety is paramount in every project. That's why our metal road plates are engineered for easy and secure ground surface attachment, ensuring a safe and stable foundation for your operations.
Looking for more information about road plate sizes? Click below to learn more about our steel road plate hire range, helping you in choosing the ideal plates for your project.
At The Plant Yard, we understand the difficulties of some projects. If your needs require center lifting plates, simply let us know. Our range includes solutions for various lifting requirements to keep your operations running efficiently.
Curious about steel plate weights? Our knowledgeable team is here to assist you with all the details you need.
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At The Plant Yard, we're committed to providing reliable steel road plate solutions that keep your projects on track and ensure smooth operations.
About Steel Road Plate Hire
STEEL ROAD PLATES IN USE AT A FACTORY ENTRANCE
use cases for steel road plate
Steel road plates are perfect for many situations where construction has potential to interupt traffic or cause safety issues. For example roadworks, plumbing works, and building and construction sites. Situations like:
street crossings, covering trenches, covering road potholes, pits in roadways, and providing temporary access over unstable or muddy terrain.
providing temporarily cover holes to avoid unnecessary backfilling. The 2.4m steel plate are popular for streets, highways, and construction sites.
covering hardened areas, such as non-reinforced concrete, particularly when heavier trucks, cranes, and machinery are in use.
in continually flat zones like playing fields, lawns, airports, dockside, and large industrial areas. The 6m steel plates are popular for this.
facilitating driveway access on residential properties and can be used for footpaths, pavements too.
How to move steel road plates
Steel road plates are heavy, far too heavy to be lifted by hand. They range from 200kg to 1.5 tonnes or more!
A range of lifting equipment helps us move steel road plates from The Plant Yard to your construction site. Forklifts are used to load plates onto our EWP/cherry picker truck or our flat bed tipper tray.
Unloading on delivery to your site may involve forklifts again or cranes can be used, but often our EWP/cherry picker truck or our flat bed tipper tray is best suited to unload onsite without the need for lifting. Same goes for pickup of plates for return.
Steel road plates can be manoeuvered around onsite with forklifts, or plate lifter hoists for small plates from our range.
RP44 - 3000 x 1200 x 20mm
RP27
Importance of securing steel road plates
It is important to ensure that the heavy duty road plates fixed in place during works for hazard mitigation. If they are not properly installed, they can move and displace, creating a hazard to potential motorists or pedestrians.
The ideal ways to secure the plates are to pin them to the ground through the available holes using road plate pins. They can also be recessed into the surface or secured with temporary asphalt wedges around the perimeter.
Recessed plates are generally better for highway use are easier to drive on and less reliant on the performance of the pins. We recommend testing the road plates out for displacement under load before continuing works.
RP72 - All Weather Access
Improve construction site traffic with steel road plates
Steel road plates from The Plant Yard enable continued vehicle access during disruptive work such as trench works, construction sites, road works, and excavations.
By covering elements like trenches, road potholes, pits in roadways, or temporarily covering holes, they allow traffic to bypass or move over the work area.
They can also facilitate temporary driveway access during construction. This functionality is key to how steel road plates help maintain site operations and traffic flow despite ground-level disruptions.
Steel road plate sizes
Our range of steel road plates come in various sizes and thicknesses, from 0.5m to 6m long, ranging from 16mm to 45mm thick. They are also AS3679 compliant.
Our 2.4m range is our most popular, most commonly used for streets, highways and construction sites.
Our 6m range is more commonly used in larger continually flat zones. This includes areas such as playing fields, lawns, airports, dockside and large industrial areas.
The smaller sizes are typically used for footpaths, pavements and driveways.
We carry a large range of heavy duty steel plates. Our standard steel plate sizes can be found in our new catalogue. If centre lifting plates are required, please let us know. Also, if you would like to know the exact steel plate weight, we can assist.
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“We at The Plant Yard Pty Ltd are a Sydney equipment hire company specialising in the hire of construction materials handling equipment, site accommodation and tools to the building and construction industry. Our mission is to continue to provide a high standard of equipment and personalised service to our existing clients and to welcome new clients to our valued client base whom we have successfully serviced since our inception in 1998.”