Phoning around Midrand 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 Midrand and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Cherry Picker Hire in Midrand
Cherry picker hire in Midrand: hire companies and tree fellers around Midrand 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.
New to this? Read the cherry picker hire guide for the options and the questions worth asking before you pay.
Midrand notes on equipment & supplies
Hire yards along the Old Pretoria Road and in Halfway House rent larger towable chippers and tracked stump grinders that suit plot work, as well as cherry pickers for tall gums. Kyalami farm owners clearing their own windbreaks should consider hiring an experienced feller for anything over roof height. Buy proper chainsaw safety gear, including chaps, boots and a helmet with ear muffs, before running any saw.
What grows around Midrand
Midrand sits between Johannesburg and Pretoria on land that was farms and smallholdings not long ago, and the trees still show it. Windbreaks of bluegums, rows of pines and old poplars along the Jukskei and its tributaries stand beside new office parks and estates. Waterfall and Carlswald are being built up fast, so developers ask for stands to be cleared, while the horse farms and plots of Kyalami and Glen Austin need gums felled away from stables and paddocks. Summer thunderstorms with lightning and hail are fierce on this open high ground, and wind takes out shallow rooted trees on newly cleared land. Check whether any indigenous tree on a development site is protected before it is removed.
Typical cherry picker hire requests in the area come from:
- Developers and building sites: removing tall trees close to neighbouring buildings before construction
- Estates, complexes and body corporates: crown lifting street trees along estate roads over a few days
- Homeowners: taking a big tree over the roof down in sections from a platform
Local tips for Midrand
Most asked for in Midrand: clearing gum and pine windbreaks on plots and development stands. Where tree fellers and hire yards work from: tree fellers on Kyalami and Glen Austin plots; hire yards along the Old Pretoria Road. A useful tip: ask whether the gum wood will be cut into logs for firewood or taken off the plot.
Cherry Picker Hire usually suits crown lifting, sectional felling, street trees, done like this: truck, trailer or self-propelled platforms. For developers and building sites, the biggest group here, that usually means removing tall trees close to neighbouring buildings before construction. On the weather side: exposed high ground; storms and lightning hit tall gums, wind topples edge trees.
Service area: Midrand and surrounds
Requests from Midrand go to teams and suppliers who already work in Waterfall, Kyalami, Halfway House, Vorna Valley, Carlswald, Noordwyk, Glen Austin 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.