| 69 Enviroflo CONTRACTING HT Contracting A life in machinery... Most of the company’s work is in earth-moving associated with roading. T T Hugh de Lacy For Hamish Tisdall of HT Contracting, the purchase of a Posi Track skid-steer Total Station control enabled him to become a subcontractor for The Alliance, the joint venture between Fulton Hogan and Downer Construction delivering the major roading earthworks in the Queenstown district. Hamish already had a couple of diggers and trucks when he acquired the skid-steer and had it fitted with the latest electronic controls. At the time, he was the first and only contractor in Queenstown with a Bobcat with GPS, and with his addition of the Total Station equipment, he was able to offer a more accurate service with greatly improved surface finishing. HT Contracting has a staff of five and an inventory of plant that includes one five-tonne and one 14-tonne Komatsu digger, along with two Nissan six-by-four tip-trucks and sundry back-up equipment like compactors and a water truck. Most of the company’s work is in earth-moving associated with roading, but it also has a steady trade in preparing sites for new homes in the rapidly growing Queenstown district. “I grew up around machinery because my father, Ken, had been in earth-moving all his life, and as soon as I left school I went with him to Perth, Western Australia, to work for a mining company,” Hamish says. “I came back to Queenstown, where I’d grown up, in 2014 after three years in Perth, keen to get started in the industry on my own account.” Hamish set up HT Contracting in 2014 with a five-tonne digger and a truck. “What I needed was to establish a point of difference between me and existing companies, and I could see the way to doing that was through the GPS and Total Station controlled equipment. No one else had that sort of technology at the time, and that’s what allowed me to get my foot in the door,” Hamish says. His father, Ken, is still in the industry as a grader driver with Downer Construction in Queenstown, and his mother, Teri, helps Hamish with the book-keeping. Besides the roading work and the occasional house-pad establishment, HT Contracting performs a wide range of civil works like pathways, earthworks and landscaping for lifestyle blocks. Enviroflo aims to leave nothing more than a tidy trench line behind them, 03 383 6262 www.asphaltrepairs.co.nz Proudly supporting Enviroflo with all their asphalting needs. smallholesealers A S P H A L T R E P A I R S proud to support Enviro o
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