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Tool and Plant Hire

Is Tool and Plant Hire readily available in JOHANNESBURG?

Yes, absolutely from the smallest item for the DIY enthusiast right up to heavy duty equipment.   For the Homeowner To me when I think of tool or plant hire I think of gigantic machines that scrape and impact, drill and crush. Times have changed. Hiring specialised, or even ordinary tools, is available for even the most mundane job now. Take for instance a ladder, it’s a tool yet not many people own one, or if they do it is probably one that can’t help them repair roof tiles. What a Hilti gun, that ingenious machine that shoots out nails in the blink of an eye? It’s not a tool that people usually keep in their arsenal out in the garage, but the use of one can take hours and hours of time off a project. And to buy one for the use of only one project doesn’t make sense at all.

What about tools?

Angle grinders, orbital sanders, jigsaws? If you haven’t got them and you need them, hire them!

Do you need to resurface your wooden deck, or re-seal your antique oak flooring? Your choices in hiring range from something quite small and adequate up to industrial sized machines that will remove heavily coated areas while sucking up almost all the dust residue. Even those pesky areas like edges, skirting’s or hard to reach places like under stairs – you will be able to hire the perfect tool to do the perfect job.

Maybe you need to pressure hose your deck before sanding? A pressure washer is not something one usually has lying around, and to hire a professional to do the job for you often doesn’t seem economically viable. The hire of equipment alone without paying for labour can mean hundreds or Rands savings at the end of the day.

If you are an avid DIY enthusiast with a limited budget or space to store equipment, the option to hire simply makes perfect sense. From cutting bricks and tiles, to jack hammers for breaking up that old concrete patio.

Perhaps you need to attend to your garden and need a chain saw to cut down that overgrown hedge, a lawnmower or a weed eater to smarten up your borders or even a leaf blower to tidy up your estate. Even a wheelbarrow to cart away your hard work, you’ll find one!

Hiring eliminates the cost and expense of buying, plus hire rates include delivery, maintenance and installation, if need be. You use it and return it, no hassles, no fuss.

Most Plant Hire and tool hire companies offer a full range of equipment from burdensome concrete mixers to simple cleaning equipment, from ladders to full scale scaffolding. Earth moving equipment, compactors, heavy duty breakers, and compressors; welding machines, concrete finishing machines, survey equipment and conveyor belts; water pumps and even specialised saws for cutting into concrete.

Portable high pressure fire fighting equipment that can be put onto the back of a bakkie and taken where it’s needed in hurry is no problem. And, if you need a compressor for spray painting or for driving pneumatic tools, you can get it.  

For the Contractor

Even if you own or run a small company, what hire companies offer is easy access to a full range of tools that can be quickly and efficiently replaced, minimising time and costs associated with breakdowns. There is no need for large storage facilities, plus tool hire frees up capital to be used elsewhere. And you need never worry about depreciation. They will also usually take care of all the insurance premiums too.

Hiring can be done either on a daily, as needs basis, for more long term hire a contract would normally be considered as part of the deal between those hiring and those needing to hire, but what this offers you is full cover on mechanical repairs and servicing. Having well maintained tools that work optimally first of all reduces staff safety but also reduces downtime of labour if a machine or tool needs to be taken off the production line to be repaired or serviced.

Most companies tender on projects and once granted a tender would start gathering the resources to complete the job. Therefore it makes no sense to keep a full range of equipment in storage that would possibly only be used as and when necessary. Yet without the aid of these machines or tools the likelihood of being granted the tender is debatable. A company can hire what they want for how long as they the need it, and during their contract they have peace of mind knowing that their equipment will be in good working order and available to them at all times.  

For those Large Projects

There are companies in South Africa that really go big with their offerings in response to demand. Take cranes for instance. Even large Civil works companies make use of Plant Hire and what they get in return is a service that delivers, erects, services and repairs on site and when the job is done, they dismantle.

Earthmoving equipment is another that comes to mind, these cumbersome vehicles are a prerequisite for many large civil works, yet owning and running these behemoths can be costly and risky. For a fraction of the costs of owning, they get a machine that is always in good running order, on site and working the hours they need it to be working. And when they are done, it goes back to where it came from. There is no need to keep large storage facilities and no need to have machinery sitting around idle between projects.

If you have need of tippers, loaders or 2.5 tonne rollers, excavators, 40 tonne lowebed’s, water trucks or graders but don’t have the budget to buy, then the solution is to hire.

When you consider that giants in the civil engineering community such as companies like Murray & Roberts, Stefanutti Stocks, Basil Read or Grinaker-LTA make use of Plant hire, they obviously know what they’re doing.