How we review content

Every guide on this site exists because customers ask the same questions before they hire: what height do I actually need, will it fit through the gate, will it mark the floor, can it cross the lawn. We answer those in writing so the answer is the same whether you ring on a Tuesday or read it at midnight.

We do not publish to fill a blog, we do not buy articles, and we do not use an agency. If we have nothing useful to add on a topic, there is no page for it.

Guides are written by the Equip Hire team — the people taking hire enquiries, servicing the fleet and delivering the machines. Every article names its author and its reviewer, and the date it was last checked.

Safety, licensing and load-restraint content is reviewed separately from the person who wrote it before it is published.

We describe what we do and what we have seen on site. We do not claim licences, tickets, engineering qualifications or years of experience we cannot show.

Working heights, platform heights, capacities, widths, weights and battery or engine details come from the manufacturer specification sheet held on file for that exact machine — not from memory, and not read across from a similar model.

Where a figure is manufacturer-stated rather than something we have measured, the page says so. Where a machine has different indoor and outdoor ratings, both are shown, because using the indoor number outdoors is unsafe.

Manufacturers change specifications. Before you commit to a hire we confirm the figures for the actual machine going to your site.

We will tell you when a class of machine needs a high risk work licence, and when familiarisation is enough. We will not tell you that you are compliant — that depends on your site, your operators and your paperwork.

We do not publish workarounds, and we do not describe a method we would not use ourselves. If a job needs a different machine, an engineer, or a permit, the guide says that.

Advice is general. The risk assessment and the pre-operational check sheet supplied with your machine, and your own safe work method statement, govern the work.

Reviews shown on this site are genuine reviews left by customers on our public Google Business Profile. We select which ones to feature, and we say that plainly on the reviews page, with a link to the full live feed so you can read the unselected ones too.

We do not write reviews, we do not pay for them, we do not offer discounts for them, and we do not edit their wording beyond trimming length — where a review is shortened, the page shows it is an extract.

Guides are re-checked when the fleet changes, when a manufacturer updates a specification, or when a rule changes. The "last checked" date on the article is the real date a person went through it.

When we get something wrong we fix the page rather than quietly deleting it, and where the change matters we note what changed.

If you spot an error — especially a figure or a safety point — tell us and we will correct it.

We use software to help draft, format and check consistency, and to pull figures out of the specification sheets and manuals we already hold. Every published page is read, corrected and approved by a person at Equip Hire before it goes live.

No page is published unread, no figure is accepted without the source document behind it, and nothing invents a machine, a specification or a service we do not have.

We hire and sell equipment, so we have an interest in you hiring from us. Where a guide compares machines, it says which ones we run and which we do not.

We are not paid to recommend a brand, we do not run affiliate links, and where a competitor or a different machine class suits your job better, the guide says so.