Boom Lift and Cherry Picker Hire Sydney

In everyday Australian use, yes. Cherry picker is the common name for a boom type elevating work platform, which is what the industry calls a boom lift. The name comes from orchard work, where the first machines lifted a picker into the tree. Both names describe the same thing on this page.

We hire from one depot at 770-776 Richmond Road, Berkshire Park, in Western Sydney, and deliver across Sydney and throughout New South Wales. There is no branch network, so what you get is one team that knows the machines rather than a transfer between yards. Give us your suburb and we will quote the delivery with the hire.

Work backwards from the job. Measure the height your hands need to reach, then how far out from the machine the work sits, then what is in the way underneath. Working height is roughly two metres above the platform floor, and horizontal outreach is the figure that decides whether the machine can stand clear of an obstruction. Send us those three numbers and the ground type and we will name the machine.

A boom type platform with a boom length of eleven metres or more needs a High Risk Work Licence in NSW. Boom length is not the same figure as working height, so ask us for the boom length of the machine you are considering rather than reading it off the height. Below that threshold, sites normally still want recognised EWP operator training, commonly asked for as a Yellow Card, plus a site induction and a harness for boom work.

An electric machine can, on a firm, level, sealed floor, and it is often the right answer when the work sits above racking or fixed plant. A diesel machine is an outdoor machine: the engine rules out enclosed spaces and lugged tyres mark a finished floor. Tell us the floor and whether the building is occupied and we will confirm the machine before it leaves the depot.

A knuckle boom, also called an articulating boom, folds at one or more joints, so the platform can go up, over and back down again to clear a roof, an awning or fixed machinery. A straight or telescopic boom extends in one line, which gives more outreach for the same height but cannot reach over anything. The machines in this range are articulating.

Working height across the boom lifts we hire is 11.55 to 20.3 metres. Working height is where your hands reach, which is about two metres above the platform floor. Platform height is the deck itself, and it is the smaller figure in every specification.

Recorded machine width runs from 1190 mm to 2290 mm. The narrowest machine here is wider than a standard 820 mm internal doorway, so it needs a double door, a roller shutter or a wider opening. Measure the clear opening rather than the door frame, and tell us the tightest point on the whole route in.

Between 5400 kg and 10700 kg for 5 of 8 machines here; the others are not yet recorded. Weight decides two things: whether the floor or ground carries the machine, and what has to be on site to unload it. Ask us for the figure for a specific machine if a slab rating or a suspended floor is involved.

Platform capacity is 227 kg to 300 kg, and that figure includes the people on the platform as well as their tools and materials. Where a machine has a deck extension, the capacity on the extension is lower than the capacity on the main deck.

Not in this category. Pickup is only approved where we hold a verified machine weight and a trailer rated to carry it, and no machine here currently meets both. These are delivered on our own truck, with delivery quoted by suburb.

By suburb, access and the transport the machine needs, quoted with the hire so you see one figure. Our depot is in Western Sydney at Berkshire Park and we deliver across Sydney and throughout NSW. Tell us the tightest access width and whether a tilt tray can reach a firm, level unloading point.