Earth moving services and machinery hire

For farmers and commercial agricultural businesses

We have a solution for every farmer

Are you tired of being promised one machine that will do multiple farming jobs only to realise that it took triple the time to complete, tripled the spend, and left you – the farmer – frustrated rather than satisfied and relieved?

At LT Earth Movers, we understand that different projects require specific equipment to get the job done right.

With years of experience in earth moving, we offer a wide selection of well-maintained, cost-effective machinery. Our RTMS-accredited operators can assist you with any project, saving you time and money while achieving results.

Our pricing is transparent with no hidden costs. Our goal is to provide you with the most suitable equipment for your farming needs so you can get the job done efficiently and effectively.

Our earth moving solutions

Hoof-friendly gravel roads for dairy farms

For dairy farmers, we have developed a new way of gravelling roads for cattle to walk on, which doesn’t damage their hooves. A huge loss to the dairy industry is sore hooves, which leads to loss of milk production, higher vets bills, often culling cows and general loss in income. Our technique solves this by creating hoof-friendly roads.

Fruit & nut tree development

We use a mini six-ton excavator to dig all the holes and we have a smaller bucket for trenching water. We also have attachments to prune the trees, which cuts down on the time and labour needed, although final pruning will still need to be done by hand. Our dozer can be used to build raised beds for planting fruit trees.

De-stumping and tree removal

When you’d like to plant a new crop, removal of stumps from a timber plantation can be done with an excavator, either with the bucket or a ‘toothpick’ attachment depending on the size of the stumps. Stumps can be stock-piled or carted away with our ADTs.

Earth dams

We build earth dams. Most of the fleet is used to build a dam, but we survey, build, and grass the walls to meet your requirements. We also have the capacity to build bigger dams with input from engineers.

Building roads

A good road will have a range of benefits for any farmer. These include getting crops out quicker, providing access when there are emergencies like fires, lower maintenance bills on equipment and reduced wear and tear on equipment, and generally allowing for easier access and quicker turnaround times, leading to improved productivity. We build gravel roads for farmers and can do all the base works for tar roads. Grader, rollers, water carts, dozers, excavators, and tippers or dumpers are used for road construction.

Land levelling

Land levelling is a process for ensuring that the depths and discharge variations over a field are relatively uniform. If your land is not levelled properly, you could be losing out on the opportunity to yield your best crop. Even if your fields look relatively flat, your main crops can benefit from additional levelling by precision land levelling machinery.

Contours and waterways

Contours and waterways make up a very important part of your farmland layout. They assist with working the land and effectively removing water from the fields, without erosion and damage to the crops and fields. Contours can be made with a dozer which has a tilt blade – ideal for this application. Waterways are dug with an excavator.

Loading zones

For sugar cane and timber farmers. The product is brought out of the fields to a loading zone where larger trucks and trailers come in and haul the product to the mill.