Hiab hire and haulage in Holsworthy
Holsworthy is a livestock market town in the middle of the farming country between Dartmoor and the north coast. There is no fast road to it and not much here that is not agricultural, and that makes it one of the more specialised places we work.
It is also the natural stopping point between Bude and Okehampton, which is how we usually come to be here.
Access
No quick way in, and the lanes are the job
The A3072 and A388 are the roads, and neither is fast. Holsworthy is a genuine detour from anywhere, so we plan work here rather than fitting it in at short notice.
The town is small and the centre is tight around the square, particularly on market days.
The farms are the real access question. This is deep lane country — high hedges, single track, passing places at intervals, and gateways designed for a tractor. The crane is what makes these jobs possible, because reversing a loaded lorry back down a lane is not a plan.
The work
Almost entirely agricultural
Machinery between holdings, containers for storage, feed bins, water tanks, and the general run of heavy awkward kit that a farm needs and that will not come off a flatbed without help.
There is also a steady amount of work around barn conversions in this area, which means steel and materials down the same lanes.
- Farm machinery moved between holdings
- Containers and storage onto farms and yards
- Feed bins, water tanks and agricultural equipment
- Steel and materials for barn conversions
- Work combined with Bude or Okehampton runs
The lorry
What turns up in Holsworthy
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 Holsworthy
- Will you come out this far?
- Yes, though it is a planned trip rather than a same-day one. If you can be flexible on the date we can usually pair it with something in Bude or Okehampton and make the journey work better.
- Can you get down a farm lane?
- Usually, and where we cannot, the crane means we often do not need to — we can work from the nearest passing place or gateway. Tell us what the lane is like and we will plan around it.
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
Bude
The far north coast — a long way from the A30, and worth planning properly.
Devon
Okehampton
On the A30 at the northern edge of Dartmoor — the main road between our two counties.
Devon
Bideford
Port town on the Torridge, with a medieval bridge that large vehicles do not use.
Devon
Barnstaple
North Devon's main town, and the commercial centre for everything around it.
Or see every town we cover in Devon.
Enquiry
Get a price for a job in Holsworthy
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.