Work boats are used extensively for bank maintenance whether it is being undertaken on a river, canal, resevoir or lake.

They are used to carry materials and small items of plant as well as a working platform, this means that the workers themselves need not get into the water and expose themselves to unneccasary risk.

Land and Water Plant have an extensive fleet of specialist plant and work boats for hire which can all be adapted to a mulitude of tasks and environments.Land & Water Plant Ltd operate the largest fleet of specialist long reach excavators and inland floating plant in the UK which includes a range of workboats.

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 first class hire desk and rapid response service.

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