THE tool hire sector and the contribution it is making to overall plant and equipment sales has been recognised by McHale Plant Sales.
The company’s sales director, Denis McGrath, revealed the sector is ‘punching well above its weight’.
“Once the preserve of self-employed entrepreneurs focused on servicing a developing a DIY home repairs, house extensions and landscaping market, the sector is now populated with highly-professional, well-financed, well-managed and well-marketed businesses heavily geared to meet the needs of ‘rent-as-you-go’ utilities contractors fuelled, in many cases, by state bodies and local authorities that now ‘farm-out’ work traditionally handled in-house,” he explained.
“Driving this growth also has been the development of ‘tow-away sized’ mini and midi-diggers and the emergence of agricultural contractors keen to expand and pursue applications and growth opportunities beyond silage cutting, crop sowing and harvesting.”
As distributors of Komatsu equipment in Ireland, with other brands and attachments within their portfolio – units like the new Merlo Cingo tracked dump truck – McHale Plant Sales has recorded the impact of these trends across a host of recent sales.
This includes Komatsu PC16,26,55,80 and 138 model excavators and rock breaking attachments sold to Treaty Tool Hire in Limerick, Galway Tool Hire, Boland Hire in Arklow, Nenagh Plant Hire and, amongst agricultural contractors, to Walsh Agri of Kilmaine, County Mayo.
