Mini excavators & skid steers for East Coast

St Helens, Bicheno, Coles Bay, Swansea and Orford are holiday and retirement towns on a coast of granite headlands and white-sand beaches, with the driest climate in Tasmania.

Ground

Granite (the pink and orange rock of the Bay of Fires and Freycinet), coastal sand and gravel, and clay in the hills behind.

Typical jobs

Holiday-house landscaping and drainage, footings around granite floaters, shack renovations with tight access, and lifestyle-block driveways.

Machines that suit

The R13 PRO and R15, an RS04 skid steer for sand and mulch. Freight via Launceston or Hobart.