Hire Tips

Flexible hire? Yes we can!

Orange Hire offers a wide range of hire, buy and hire to buy options for our earthmoving equipment.

We know that you need to be flexible and adaptable to adjust to your customers’ needs. Projects change, expand, and open the doors to new jobs, meaning your equipment hire can’t be black and white.

That’s why we offer flexible hire options Read more

Dry hire vs wet hire: what does Orange Hire offer?

Orange Hire is a specialist provider of dry hire services on the East Coast.

What does this mean? Dry hire is the process of hiring equipment without an operator – you provide the operator yourself.

Wet hire on the other hand means hiring both the earthmoving equipment AND the operator with it. Of course, hiring both a machine and an Read more

Types of water filled barriers: which is best to hire for your site?

Our customers often find that their projects don’t justify the cost or logistics of hiring crash rated concrete barriers, but they still require safety barriers within their worksite. They need barriers to create parking zones for contractors, cordon off no-go zones and surround small hazards or exclusion areas like existing light poles for example.

The ideal choice in this situation Read more

Do you need an excavator license to operate an excavator?

If you’re looking to hire an excavator, you don’t need a specific license – however, you do have to be deemed a competent excavator operator. The responsibility for this falls onto what Safe Work Australia refers to as a PCBU or person conducting a business or undertaking.

The need for specific licenses for every machine was abolished by workplace Read more