Plant Hirer Impressed With Excavator Performance

• September
• 18

6:03 am construction equipment

Karratha Plant Hire, owned by Phil and Tammie Patterson currently owns six Komatsu excavators, including two PC40MR-2, a PC78MR-6, a PC200-6, a PC200-8 and a PC300-7.

Most of these machines have been working on the LNG project over the past two years, although the company supplies equipment for a wide range of civil construction and earthmoving projects throughout the Pilbara region.

Phil bought his first Komatsu excavator – the PC200-6 coming up for 20,000 hours and has been buying them ever since. His most recent purchase is a PC200-8.

“The performance of our Komatsu excavators for sale has been very good,

“Now the old one’s mainly just trenching, and it has a rock breaker on it permanently. we going to see if they can kill it with a rock breaker!”

Karratha Plant Hire’s new PC200-8 is mixing roadbase and loading trucks on Phase V of the LNG project at No Name Creek, with the two PC40MR-2s carrying out camp concreting works and trenching for electrical and other systems at Gap Ridge, just south-east of the peninsula.

The PC300-7 is currently working on the Perth-Bunbury Freeway project south of Perth, while the PC78MR-6 has just come off the Phase V project, where it was doing trenching and drainage works for the past two years.

“Port Hedland has a good-sized branch and there’s two fitters locally at Karratha, who are good young blokes, good fitters,”

“Plus, local sales rep Dean Jones has always been terrific to deal with, and nothing has ever been too much trouble for him.

Today, in addition to their six Komatsu excavators, their fleet includes rollers, water carts, tippers, skidsteers loder for sale and backhoes loder for sale.