What does cherry picker hire Melbourne cost?

A cherry picker hire price Melbourne wide turns on working height, how long you need it, and wet or dry hire.

What size cherry picker do I need?

Measure from the ground to the highest point your hands need to touch, then pick a machine above that number.

Can I hire a cherry picker without a licence?

You can hire one. Whether you can operate it depends on the machine: in Victoria a boom-type EWP over 11 metres needs a high risk work licence.

Do you hire cherry pickers with an operator?

Yes. Wet hire is the machine with a ticketed and insured operator, and a groundie where the job needs one.

What does cherry picker hire Melbourne cost?

A cherry picker hire price Melbourne wide turns on working height, how long you need it, and wet or dry hire. Getting a machine to you and back is close to a fixed cost, so a one-day hire carries all of it and a three-month hire barely notices it. We quote the job rather than publish a rate that would be wrong for most of them.

What size cherry picker do I need?

Measure from the ground to the highest point your hands need to touch, then pick a machine above that number. Then check how far the work sits from where a truck can stand, because outreach decides as many jobs as height does.

Can I hire a cherry picker without a licence?

You can hire one. Whether you can operate it depends on the machine: in Victoria a boom-type EWP over 11 metres needs a high risk work licence. Under that you still need training and competence. If nobody on the crew is ticketed, take it on wet hire.

Do you hire cherry pickers with an operator?

Yes. Wet hire is the machine with a ticketed and insured operator, and a groundie where the job needs one. It suits short jobs and anyone without a licensed operator on staff.

Are your cherry pickers insulated?

All of them. Every cherry picker hire Melbourne wide is insulated: upper boom and bucket liner, tested to the rating on the plate every six months. It is the reason the fleet exists in the shape it does.

How long can I hire a cherry picker for?

From a day to a year. Most of our work is three months and up on ongoing programmes, and the rate reflects the length of the job.

CHERRY PICKER HIRE MELBOURNE

The Right Machine. Maintained. Backup. Ready This Week.

Cherry picker hire right across Melbourne. Insulated truck-mounted towers from 12.8 m to 23.5 m, delivered to your site, taken on their own or with a ticketed operator. Maintained on a schedule, with a replacement machine behind every hire.

Pick a machineBrowse our wide range of insulated EWPs and cherry pickers we hire out. Click one to see what it does.GMJ LL22.350 23.5 m Redmond Gary TF17M 19 m Sherrin 18 m 18 m Terex Hi-Ranger LT40 13.8 m Versalift SST-37 12.8 m GMJ TT16Altec AT30-C

We bring the machine to you.

Wherever the job is — Melbourne, or anywhere else in Victoria — the tower is delivered to your site, and it stays looked after there. Troubleshooting, servicing, recertification and, if it ever comes to that, a replacement machine all come to you as well. You tell us the address and the start date.

What you are hiring

Cherry picker hire Melbourne: what the spec sheet means

Cherry picker hire Melbourne wide, with an insulated tower on every job. Five working heights from 12.8 m to 23.5 m, delivered to your site, taken on their own or with a ticketed operator.

Tree work and powerline clearance, street lighting and signage, building facades, gutters and shopfronts, camera and antenna installs. A good share of it sits close enough to overhead conductors that an ordinary boom would have to stop well short.

Every machine is electrically tested every six months, inspected with the covers off every three, and load tested annually. The certificate travels in the cab. If the machine has to come away from you, another one comes out.

Cherry picker hire Melbourne: what the spec sheet means
Working height	How high a person can reach to work. The number quoted in this fleet.
Platform height	Where the operator’s feet are. Roughly two metres lower.
Outreach	How far sideways the basket travels from the truck. Often the deciding number.
Basket capacity	What the basket carries including the people in it, tools and material.
Insulated rating	The voltage the upper boom and liner are tested to. On the plate, and re-tested every six months.

Choosing the machine

Height is the easy part. Access is what catches people out.

Most people ring us with a height in mind. That is the right place to start, but it is rarely what decides the job. The width of the gate, the surface the legs go on and what is overhead all matter just as much, and getting them wrong means a machine that turns up and cannot be used.

Reach that suits the work

Twelve point eight metres up to twenty-four

Our smallest insulated machine is the Versalift SST-37 at 12.8 metres and the biggest is the GMJ LL22.350 at 23.5 metres, with the Terex Hi-Ranger LT40, the Sherrin 18 and the Redmond Gary TF17M in between. You get the one that suits the job rather than whatever is left on the yard.

No float, no crane

The machine drives to your site

Every tower we hire out is a truck. It drives to your site under its own power and sets up on its own legs. There is no float to book, no crane to lift it off and no transport permit to chase, which is one less thing sitting between you and the start of the job.

If it stops, you do not

You always get a replacement tower

If your machine has to come away from you for any reason at all, you are handed another one and you keep working. It might not be the identical model while yours is away, but there is always a machine ready to go and you are not sitting around waiting on it.

How the hire runs

Tell us the job. We match the machine.

You are talking directly to the people who run these machines every day, not a hire desk. Dylan, Charles and Luke are on the tools, so the conversation is about the work rather than a catalogue.

01.

Tell us the reach and the access

What you are working on, how high it sits, and what the machine has to get through to reach it. Gate widths, driveway surfaces and overhead obstructions all change the answer.

02.

We match the machine

We put you on the right tower from the fleet and confirm what is available on your dates. If two machines would do the job, we tell you which one we would send and why.

03.

It drives to your site

Serviced, certified and with its paperwork in the cab. Standard dry hire runs a minimum of three months. For a one-off or an urgent job, wet hire puts the truck and an experienced operator on your site instead.

Which height actually suits your job

The gap between a 12.8 metre machine and a 23.5 metre one is not just reach. It is weight, footprint and the space the legs need before the boom will go anywhere. A bigger tower gets you higher, but it also wants more room on the ground, and on a tight suburban block that trade-off decides the job.

As a rough guide, the Versalift SST-37 at 12.8 metres and the Terex Hi-Ranger LT40 at 13.8 metres handle single-storey work, street trees and most residential access without needing much room to set up. The Redmond Gary TF17M at 19 metres and the Sherrin 18 sit in the middle, which is where most ongoing tree and line work lands. The GMJ LL22.350 at 23.5 metres is for the work nothing else reaches.

The other half of the answer is what you are working near. All of our towers are insulated and rated for work with and around live power lines, and the insulation is tested every six months on every machine. If your job goes anywhere near an electrical asset, that rating is what makes the work possible in the first place, and it is worth confirming before you commit to a machine rather than after it arrives.

If you are not sure which one fits, describe the site and we will tell you. We would rather send the machine that works than the one with the biggest number on the side.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a cherry picker and an EWP?

In practice, none. Cherry picker is the common name, elevated work platform is the term that appears on the standards and the licence, and travel tower is what line crews call an insulated one. They all describe the same class of machine.

What sizes do you hire out in Melbourne?

Insulated towers from 12.8 metres to 23.5 metres. The full fleet is the Versalift SST-37, the Terex Hi-Ranger LT40, the Sherrin 18, the Redmond Gary TF17M, the GMJ LL22.350, the GMJ TT16 and the Altec AT30-C.

How much notice do you need?

About a week is comfortable. It has been faster when it needed to be – one Melbourne job rang on a Friday and was working with the machine on the Monday morning.

Do I need a licence to operate it?

In Victoria a high risk work licence is required for boom-type elevated work platforms over 11 metres. Every insulated machine we hire is over that, so the operator needs the ticket. If you would rather not carry that, wet hire puts one of our operators in the seat.

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