| 57 Sophisticated equipment, diverse skills Awakeri Drainage provides a wide range of drainage, earthworks, and aggregate supply services in the agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, and construction industries. Hawke’s Bay: Awakeri Drainage T T Kelly Deeks REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Well-known for its drainage and contracting work on Hawke’s Bay farms, forests, and construction sites since 1970, Awakeri Drainage in Hastings stays open to any opportunities in other sectors that can be serviced with its extensive fleet and wide-ranging experience. With more than 50 years of experience and a solid reputation for speed and quality, Awakeri Drainage provides a wide range of drainage, earthworks, and aggregate supply services in the agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, and construction industries. Jarvis, Brayden, and Marcus Bishop work on a lot of the same land on which their grandfather Ron founded his business, and for the same families, albeit more intensively than the land-clearing and trenching work on which Awakeri Drainage had built its reputation in its early days. Awakeri Drainage has expanded into the forestry and construction sectors, handling any type of earthworks including site preparation, subdivisions, road preparation, and land development, where its expert advice and assistance helps land owners to achieve the maximum value from their land. A full-time team has worked at Castle Peak Forest west of Napier for the past five years providing full forestry roading and skid/hauler pad construction and maintenance. Complemented by tipper trucks and a separate grading team, Awakeri Drainage builds forestry roads to the highest standard as quickly as possible to keep harvesting crews running. The machinery the brothers are running today is very sophisticated and much of it specialised. “All of our drainage installation equipment is now specialised, one-of-a-kind stuff, imported from England with Trimble GPS and we keep it updated,” Marcus says. The modern and well-designed machinery set-ups mean Awakeri Drainage can get work done quickly and often well before deadlines, and the diverse range of skills in the Awakeri Drainage team means the firm can allocate resources from different angles to get jobs done even faster. The fact they get to work with good gear makes the team all the happier in their work. Awakeri Drainage also offers an orchard recycling and tree-chipping service, with its Bandit Beast 2680, which undertakes horizontal green waste and tree grinding, and reducing trees and green waste into mulch. Full orchard removal is also on offer, including pull, heap, chip, and disposal of wood chip. The Awakeri Drainage yard on Richmond Road in Hastings is a one-stop-shop for all aggregate supply and dumping requirements. Here, the full range of building, construction, and track aggregates is available for delivery, concrete is recycled, and cleanfill is also recycled and blended into useable fill. Awakeri Drainage currently runs a team of 25 good, experienced staff and is growing every year. The company outgrew its current premises about five years ago and has a new, larger site under development with plans to move in once it is complete. “We’ve got a big shed out there which we are doing a massive renovation on to turn it into a customised workshop with full service pit and a modern office space.” With the construction and rural sectors both taking a big hit in the recession, Awakeri Drainage makes sure to take up any new opportunities that arise. “All of our drainage installation equipment is now specialised, one-of-a-kind stuff, imported from England with Trimble GPS and we keep it updated.” Transforming visions into value and driving business success. We’re right there with you, especially when times are challenging. Accountants & business advisers 06 876 8124 admin@pkfcs.co.nz. pkfcs.co.nz PKF Carr & Stanton are proud to support Awakeri Drainage Ltd ON FARM FIELD SERVICES • TYRE FLEET SERVICE & MANAGEMENT • 24/7 CALL OUT SERVICE 9 DONNELY ST. HAVELOCK NORTH sales@havelocknorthtyres.co.nz www.havelocknorthtyres.co.nz HAWKES BAY’S LARGEST RANGE OF TRACTOR TYRES! ON FARM SERVICE PROUDLY SUPPORTING AWAKERI DRAINAGE LTD
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