Tug boats are used for pushing or pulling loaded and unloaded hoppers or barges up and down canls, rivers and on lakes and resevoirs.

Land and water have an extensive range of inland waterway tugs for hire which includes the Millenium tugs that have a self hitch system for attaching themselves to hoppers.

This system means that the operator never need leave the cab and therefore creates a much safer lone working environment.

Land and water also have a fleet of ex-nato tugs, these are extremly powerful rivertugs caplable of working in a strong flow or tidal environment.

Land & Water Plant Ltd operate the largest fleet of specialist long reach excavators and inland floating plant in the UK.

The plant is offered for hire anywhere in the UK or overseas, to civil engineers, dredging contractors, the quarrying industry, the maritime industry and numerous public and private sector clients.

The long reach excavator fleet ranges from 4.5 tonne to 85 tonne machines with reach combinations to compliment the base machine weight, from 8m to 25m.

The fleet is regularly updated and has a low “age profile” (generally under 3 years old).

The floating plant fleet is innovative and highly specialist.

Uniquely all of the plant is road transportable, enabling it to be used in both the inland and marine environments.

The range of equipment varies from modular spudded or “jack-up” pontoons, tugs, split dump barges, dumb barges,dredge pontoons, and floating welfare units.

Other specialist plant available for hire includes sealed bodied, low ground pressure dump trucks and swamp bulldozers.

Land & Water Plant operates from the head office in Albury, where a skilled team offer a fist class hire desk and rapid response service.

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