Great Southern Equipment: forklift sales, hire and service in Albany WA
We supply, hire, service and repair materials handling gear from our workshop at 21 Cockburn Road, Albany. Our job is to deliver products, service and support for the materials handling industry in Albany and the Great Southern, which means we look after forklifts in Albany, Denmark, Katanning, Walpole, Mt Barker and the districts around them. Some of our customers run a single pallet truck in a storeroom; others run a yard full of counterbalance trucks and elevated work platforms. We work with both.
New forklifts and access equipment from TCM, Jungheinrich and Snorkel
We supply new equipment from three manufacturers. TCM internal combustion forklifts cover general materials handling where robustness matters. Jungheinrich battery electric forklifts are built for warehouse and distribution centre work, with the emphasis on battery technology, efficiency and operator ergonomics. From Snorkel we supply elevated work platforms for working at height in maintenance, construction and industrial settings, including telescopic booms, articulating booms and scissor lifts. If you are weighing up a purchase, talk to us about how the machine will actually be used before you settle on a model.
Hire, short term and long term
Not every job justifies buying a machine. We keep a hire fleet across a range of capacities and lift heights, available on flexible terms for both short-term and long-term hire, so a stocktake week, a shutdown or a twelve-month contract can each have the right truck under it.
What we hire out
- TCM internal combustion counterbalance trucks: 1.5 to 16 tonnes, running on LPG, petrol or diesel.
- Jungheinrich battery electric forklifts: the electric option where running costs and emissions are part of the decision.
- Jungheinrich warehouse equipment: reach trucks and pallet trucks for making better use of storage and handling loads indoors.
Servicing, inspections and repairs from our Albany workshop
Our technicians carry out maintenance, repairs and safety inspections, both in the workshop and on site across the Great Southern. That covers EWP inspections, forklift safety inspections, log book services, and 10-year major inspections on vehicle loading cranes and elevated work platforms. We diagnose and repair electrical faults on common materials handling and access equipment brands using proper diagnostic tools rather than guesswork.
A good deal of this work happens where the machine already is. On-site servicing and repairs to forklifts, elevated work platforms and materials handling equipment is what we are listed for, and our on-site support runs right across the Great Southern, out to Denmark, Katanning, Walpole and Mt Barker. For an operator in one of those towns, that is the difference between a technician arriving and a machine sitting idle on a float waiting for a run into Albany.
We manufacture and replace hydraulic hoses, and we reseal, modify and rebuild hydraulic cylinders so a machine’s hydraulics keep doing what they are meant to. We rebuild traction batteries for Century, Exide, Ceil and other brands, which is often the difference between keeping an electric machine and replacing it. Solid tyre pressing and replacement is done in-house at the Albany workshop.
Parts, transport and how to reach us
We carry an inventory of genuine and high-quality aftermarket parts for forklifts, scissor lifts and boom lifts, with service kits, starter motors, alternators and water pumps among the items usually ready for immediate dispatch. Anything not on the shelf we source through our supplier network, and we will quote on it with no obligation. We also run a tilt tray for equipment up to 7 tonnes, covering Albany and the Great Southern and handling delivery to and from Perth, so a machine that needs the workshop does not have to be someone else’s problem to move.
The workshop is on 08 6835 1111 and [email protected]. Tell us the machine and the job, and we will tell you what we can do and when.