Phoning around Johannesburg for the right machine and a fair rate takes time. Send one request instead, with what you need, the dates or how many, and we pass it to tool and plant hire yards who supply Johannesburg and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Cherry Picker Hire in Johannesburg
Cherry picker hire in Johannesburg: hire companies and tree fellers around Johannesburg run truck-mounted and trailer platforms, usually with a trained operator. Measure the tree height and the reach from the road or drive, and ask whether the municipality needs to know if the machine stands on the street.
The main cherry picker hire page explains the work, the safety points and the costs in more detail.
Equipment & supplies in Johannesburg: local notes
Hire shops along Main Reef Road and in the south of the city rent petrol chainsaws, towable chippers and walk-behind stump grinders by the day. For the tall canopy in Emmarentia and Parktown, a cherry picker with a 15 m or higher working height is often hired with an operator. Bring your ID for the deposit, and buy cut-resistant trousers and a helmet with a face screen before you start any saw work.
What grows around Johannesburg
Johannesburg is often called one of the largest planted urban forests in the world, and most of that canopy sits in the old northern suburbs. Parktown, Houghton, Saxonwold, Parkview and Melville grew up under plane trees, English oaks, pin oaks, jacarandas and towering bluegums planted a century ago. Many are now old, top heavy and sharing small stands with houses, walls and overhead cables. The shot hole borer beetle has weakened plane trees in parts of the city, and summer thunderstorms bring down limbs that were already dying. Homeowners ask for crown reductions, deadwood removal and sectional felling over roofs. Street trees usually belong to the city, so check with the municipality before anyone cuts a pavement tree.
Who asks for cherry picker hire around Johannesburg, most often first:
- Homeowners: taking a big tree over the roof down in sections from a platform
- Estates, complexes and body corporates: crown lifting street trees along estate roads over a few days
- Schools, churches and municipalities: municipal teams pruning street and park trees above roads and paths
Local tips for Johannesburg
Most asked for in Johannesburg: sectional felling and crown reduction of century old planes, oaks and bluegums. Where tree fellers and hire yards work from: teams based in Randburg, Roodepoort and the south, travelling into the northern suburbs. A useful tip: ask whether the tree is a pavement tree and who has to give permission first.
Around Johannesburg the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means taking a big tree over the roof down in sections from a platform. Before you agree to anything: firm ground for outriggers, no power lines. The trees to watch here: old plane trees, English and pin oaks, bluegums and large jacarandas.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Requests from Johannesburg go to teams and suppliers who already work in Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville and the rest of the area. Mention an estate gate, a narrow driveway or a steep garden, because they change how the job is planned.