General Plant

Highway Plant offers general plant machinery hire in Cornwall. We deliver to Redruth, Camborne, Hayle, St. Ives, Penance, Helston, Falmouth, Truro and many more locations! Machines we have available for hire are diggers, dumpers, rollers, power barrows, air compressors, digger attachments, trailers and steel road plates.

We have a wide range of excavators/diggers for hire in Cornwall to suit your requirements! Currently, we stock diggers ranging from 1 – 13 Ton (steel or rubber pad tracks), perfect for any excavating job. Our smaller diggers available for hire have a width of 750mm and zero swing, perfect for jobs with a limited workspace. Alternatively, we have our larger excavators perfect for site work. 

Please give us a call or use the digger link at the bottom of the page for more information.

Need to hire digger attachments? No problem! We also hire hydraulic hammers/breakers (available for all diggers) and augers (available on 1-3t diggers). Hydraulic quick fit hitches are fitted as standard on our machines that are 3t and larger. Additionally, all diggers are also fitted with the latest double lock hitches, which are required in accordance to Health and Safety on site by many contractors. 

Please give us a call or use the digger attachments link at the bottom of the page for more information.

We also have a wide range of dumpers on hire in Cornwall, matching perfectly with our diggers. Currently, we stock dumpers ranging from 1 – 9t. Our smallest dumper we have available for hire has a width of 1200mm, ideal for small space jobs. Alternatively, our largest dumper available to hire is a 9t machine for site work.

Want to stay warm while using your dumper? We have cabbed dumpers so you can stay toasty while working on site (available in 3, 6 and 9t). Other features of our range of dumpers for hire are large headed skip capacities, low centre of gravity for stability and site accessibility, high ground clearance and power swivels to enable effective and efficient placements of loads to either side. 

Please give us a call or use the dumper link at the bottom of the page for more information.

Additionally, we stock power barrows for hire in Cornwall. Our Hinowa Power Barrows are the toughest and most reliable barrows on the market today and they all have high discharge skips. 

Please give us a call or use the power barrow link at the bottom of the page for more information.

We also stock a range of rollers for hire in Cornwall, ideal for compacting hardcore and tarmac (for driveways, roads etc). Currently we stock 4 different rollers – Vibroll single drum (lowest hand vibration on the market), 80AD ride on, 120AD ride on and 138AD ride on rollers.

Need a roller that’s more specialised? We can also provide rammax sheeps foot trench rollers, single direction compaction plates and forward/reversing plates. There are optional trailers available for hire for most models of roller. Our ride on rollers, to comply with legislation, are fitted with ROPS frames and seat belts for full protection, whilst our Rammax Sheeps Foot Trench Rollers can be manually operated or operated by remote CONTROL, THUS ENSURING OPERATOR SAFETY IN DEEP TRENCHING WORK.

PLEASE GIVE US A CALL OR USE THE ROLLER LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

WE HAVE A LARGE FLEET OF AIR COMPRESSORS FOR HIRE IN CORNWALL, IDEAL FOR JOBS THAT NEED A RELIABLE SOURCE OF COMPRESSED AIR FOR PNEUMATIC TOOLS (ROCK DRILLS, AIR POKERS, HAMMER JACKS, DEMO PICKS, NEEDLE GUNS ETC. – WE ALSO HIRE THESE WITH OUR COMPRESSORS IF NEEDED). WE HAVE AIR COMPRESSORS THAT RANGE FROM 70CFM TO 565 CFM. OUR SMALLEST AIR COMPRESSOR FOR HIRE IS EASILY TOWABLE(WEIGHS BELOW 750KG) AND IS IDEAL FOR SMALL AIR TOOLS. OUR LARGEST AIR COMPRESSOR AVAILABLE FOR HIRE IS TOWABLE (MAX LIMIT) AND HAS VARIABLE PRESSURES. THEY ARE FITTED WITH AFTERCOOLERS AND ARE IDEAL FOR ALL DRILLING JOBS. 

PLEASE GIVE US A CALL OR USE THE AIR COMPRESSOR LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION. 

WE ALSO HIRE OUT TRAILERS SO YOU CAN TOW AWAY OUR SMALLER MACHINES, AND STEEL ROAD PLATES. 

PLEASE GIVE US A CALL OR USE THE
TRAILERS/STEEL ROAD PLATES LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION.