Hiab hire and haulage in Hayle
Hayle was a foundry town before it was anything else, and the harbour and the estuary still shape how the place works. The redevelopment along the quays has brought a steady run of construction work, and the industrial estate at the top of the town is busy in its own right.
It is also the point where the A30 stops being simple, which is worth knowing when you are booking a delivery here in August.
Access
The causeway and the estuary
Hayle sits either side of an estuary, and the crossings between the two halves of the town are the constraint. Traffic through the middle backs up readily, and in high season it can back up a very long way.
The industrial estate at the top end is easy enough to work in. The harbour and quay areas are more variable: good hardstanding in places, made ground and soft edges in others, and we will always want to know which we are dealing with before the legs go down anywhere near a quay edge.
For anything with a fixed appointment in summer we plan on an early start, because the difference between eight in the morning and eleven here is measured in hours rather than minutes.
The work
Construction, marine and estate work
The redevelopment work around the harbour generates steel, timber and materials that need placing rather than dropping, often on sites hemmed in by water on one side and housing on the other.
Away from that it is the industrial estate, the surrounding farms, and a fair amount of domestic work in the villages between here and St Ives.
- Steel and materials into harbour-side construction sites
- Deliveries across the industrial estate
- Containers onto farms and plots around the estuary
- Plant moved to and from sites in west Cornwall
- Domestic lifts in Phillack, Angarrack and the surrounding villages
The lorry
What turns up in Hayle
One vehicle: a 30TM HMF hiab with 10 metres of reach on a cheesewedge body, carrying up to 10 tons. It brings the load and lifts it into place, so there is no second machine to arrange and nobody waiting about at either end.
Questions
Common questions about Hayle
- Is quayside ground a problem?
- It can be. Quay edges, made ground and old fill all behave differently under outriggers than they look. Tell us where the lorry would stand and we will ask the right questions before committing to it.
- How does summer traffic affect a booking?
- Mainly by making the morning the only sensible time. We would rather start early and be finished than sit in queues on your time.
Nearby
We also cover
Some of these are over the county line, which makes no difference to us: we work both sides of the Tamar and there is no surcharge for crossing it. Each is labelled with the county it is actually in.
Cornwall
St Ives
The hardest town in Cornwall to deliver into, and the one where a crane earns its keep.
Cornwall
Camborne
Engineering town with an A30 junction and a long memory for heavy machinery.
Cornwall
Penzance
The end of the line, with a working harbour and the county's most westerly trade estates.
Cornwall
Redruth
Industrial Cornwall, and one of the easiest towns in the county to operate a lorry in.
Or see every town we cover in Cornwall.
Enquiry
Get a price for a job in Hayle
Tell us what is moving, roughly what it weighs, and how far it has to go from where a lorry can stand. That is usually enough for a straight answer.