Excavator & Attachment Hire in Queanbeyan

At ACT Attachment Hire, we are based in Queanbeyan East, which means contractors working anywhere across Queanbeyan, Karabar, Queanbeyan West and Jerrabomberra have equipment close at hand. Short travel distances keep hire simple: pick up in the morning, work the day, and return without losing hours to freight or cross-town runs.

We hire excavation equipment and excavator attachments to builders, civil contractors, landscapers, utility crews and owner-operators. Every machine and attachment is checked and maintained between hires, so the gear that leaves our yard is ready to work rather than needing an hour of fiddling before it earns its keep.

We opened in June 2020 and the team brings combined decades of industry experience to every enquiry. Tell us the job and the machine, and we will point you at equipment that suits the task and the ground conditions. Our trading hours are Monday to Friday, 7am to 5pm, with weekend hire available by appointment.

Call us today on 0458 122 811 to check equipment availability.

At ACT Attachment Hire, we supply excavation equipment to Queanbeyan sites handling everything from residential footings through to civil earthworks. Queanbeyan blocks vary widely. Established suburbs carry mature trees and existing services, newer estates sit on cut-and-fill pads, and holdings on the town fringe run to rural-residential acreage. Machine size and reach matter there as much as raw capacity. We talk through access, spoil handling and the depth you need before recommending equipment, which avoids the wasted trip that comes from booking a machine that cannot physically get where the work is. Our gear is checked and maintained between hires, and because our yard is in Queanbeyan East, collection and return add minutes rather than hours to your day. Call us on 0458 122 811 to confirm availability for your dates.

Contractors working around Queanbeyan often already have a machine on site and simply need the right tool on the end of it. That is the core of what we do at ACT Attachment Hire: we hire excavator attachments for digging, breaking, drilling and material handling, matched to your carrier machine rather than to whatever happens to be free. When you call, we ask for the make, model and coupler type, along with the hydraulic flow available, so the attachment that arrives actually fits and performs. This suits crews juggling stages on one job, trenching one week and breaking a slab the next, without carrying the cost of owning attachments that sit idle between uses. Every attachment is inspected between hires. Our combined decades of industry experience mean the recommendation you get is based on the work in front of you.

Queanbeyan sits on ground that regularly turns up rock, and older parts of town carry plenty of legacy concrete: driveways, slabs, footings and paths that need to come out before new work starts. At ACT Attachment Hire, we hire hydraulic hammers sized to both the carrier machine and the material being broken, because an undersized hammer wastes time while an oversized one puts unnecessary stress on the excavator. We ask what you are breaking and what machine you are running, then match hammer weight and impact accordingly. Fitting can be arranged at the time of hire if you would rather not handle it yourself. Hammers are maintained and checked between every hire so they perform from the first strike. Ring 0458 122 811 and we will confirm what is in the yard and suitable for the job.

Post holes, pier holes and footing drilling come up constantly on Queanbeyan jobs: fencing on rural-residential blocks, deck and pergola piers in established suburbs, and footings on new builds through Jerrabomberra and Karabar. At ACT Attachment Hire, we hire augers in a range of diameters along with drives matched to your machine hydraulics and coupler. Ground conditions drive the recommendation: what works in soft fill will struggle in the harder, rockier ground common around the district, so we ask what you have hit on site before suggesting a combination. Getting diameter and torque right the first time is the difference between drilling a run of holes in a morning and fighting the ground all day. Our trading hours are Monday to Friday, 7am to 5pm, with weekend hire by appointment.