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The Home of State-Of-The-Art Piling and Foundation Equipment – National and International Supply

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Maintained to the Highest Standards to Ensure you have less Downtime

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Available for Hire or Sale and Backed up by a First Class Service

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Watson & Hillhouse

Unrivalled Service in Piling Equipment Supply Since 1972

Watson & Hillhouse

Specialising in Piling Equipment Sales & Hire since

1972

Our worldwide reputation for service and technical expertise, together with enormous resources, places us at the forefront of the industry.

Our multi-million-pound investment in equipment suitable for virtually any requirement, represents the largest fleet of over 70 items of foundation and piling equipment.

Our policy for continual replacement makes plant available for used plant sales alongside our hire and new equipment sales businesses.

Piling & Foundation Equipment for Hire

Hire is our core business from which all our other piling equipment supply activities have evolved. We have devoted considerable time identifying and obtaining the most effective equipment for all types of piling.

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Piling & Foundation Equipment for Sale

We have exclusive UK and Global agency agreements with leading international manufacturers for the sale, servicing and support of their product ranges.

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Why choose Watson & Hillhouse:

We pride ourselves on offering the very highest levels of customer service and equipment. Our staff are experts on everything piling and foundation equipment related and are on hand to guide you.

What we offer:

A huge range of foundation and piling equipment is available to hire or buy. We also offer onsite engineers and commissioning, service and a parts.

Our mission statement

“to provide first-class piling equipment that meets or exceeds our customer’s performance and service needs anywhere in the world, for the purpose of building long-lasting relationships with all of our stakeholders”

Piling & Foundation Equipment

Piling Vibrators

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Piling Hammers

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Piling Vibrators

We have both crane suspended and excavator mounted piling equipment available.

The crane suspended vibro hammers have a wide range of applications including driving and extracting sheet profiles, ‘H’, timber, concrete & tubular piles and CFA cages. On land, these adaptable machines can be modified to suit a range of non-piling applications such as soil compaction and construction of vertical drains…

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Piling Hammers

Hydraulic piling hammers are an economical solution for the installation of all types of steel, timber or concrete piles in either land or marine environments. The versatile design allows operation by crane suspension, from piling rigs or leaders and can be via an existing power source, or by separate power pack. Energy outputs range from 20kNm to 520kNm making them ideal for cohesive soils, very dense granular soils and soft rock.

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Movax

The home of the side grip. The original and the best.

However, as well as the original core side grip product, which now has the variable moment option, Movax now also offer piling hammers, pre-auger drills, telescopic auger drills and a pile handling manipulator. When excavator mounted, tools can be switched over…

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Silent Piling

The pile press allows various sheet pile profiles and tubular piles to be installed into most soil types with very little, if no, vibration or noise that is normally associated with pile driving. Ideal for built up areas…

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Piling & Drilling

Drilling rigs are ideal for performing a range of drilling projects. Designed to be multipurpose, these rigs can be used for pile drilling or ground improvement and are suited to many pile types including CFA piles and full soil displacement piles.

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Water Jetting

Water Jetters enhance the performance of pile pressing machines in all types of soils, and vibratory hammers particularly in cohesive soils. It can also be used to assist the extraction of piles that are difficult to extract with a vibrator, be reducing soil resistance around the piles.

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Electric Crawler Cranes

We are really excited to have recently added the PV-E Crane range of electric crawler cranes to our sales range.

Offering our customers the option to contribute to a sustainable solution for emission-free lifting, ensuring a clean and quiet construction site. A complete (eco)system, PV-E Crane makes the transition from diesel to emission-free electricity as easy as possible.

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Resonating

Vibratory hammers have been around since the early 1900’s and they have evolved in very few steps – from electric to hydraulic hammers, from low-frequency to high-frequency hammers and from fixed to variable moment hammers.

Until recently. Dieseko Group introduced a innovative resonance technology in 2016. As an almost zero-vibration, sonic-frequency foundation machine…

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Vibroflots

We have both crane suspended and excavator mounted piling equipment available.

The crane suspended vibro hammers have a wide range of applications including driving and extracting sheet profiles, ‘H’, timber, concrete & tubular piles and CFA cages. On land, these adaptable machines can be modified to suit a range of non-piling applications such as soil compaction and construction of vertical drains. In the marine environment they are equally at home – offshore and underwater….

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Dredging

Our partnership with Dutch manufacturers, Bell Dredging Equipment, means we can offer a range of dredging equipment for sale or hire.

As they say on their own website “The Dutch are experts in solving and overcoming maritime and civil challenges due to the centuries of struggle and battle to keep the lowlands we live on protected and dry to the ever rising sea level. Bell Dredging Equipment…..

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Piling equipment from the world’s leading manufacturers

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Solutions

Bespoke Solutions

We like working with our customers and we are always helping them to find ways round any piling problems that may arise in the course of a project.

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Environmentally Friendly Piling

Our commitment to the environment means that all our machines use bio oil which is biodegradable and non-toxic so, should there be an accident, the risk to wildlife and the landscape is minimal.

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Marine Piling

We are able to supply piling equipment for a wide range of marine applications. From small to large scale marine piling projects, we have a piling hammer to suit your requirements.

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Spare Parts

That equipment breakdown on site can be costly in terms of down time but we can help. If you are undertaking the repairs yourself we have a great range of spare parts in stock and we can deliver anywhere in the world.

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About

Learn more about Watson & Hillhouse

Watson & Hillhouse have specialised in the provision of pile driving equipment since 1972, building a worldwide reputation for service and technical expertise that, together with huge resources, places us at the forefront of the industry.

Environmental

Learn more about our Environmental Policies

We are all too aware of the ethical and social responsibilities that our customers’ and Watson & Hillhouse share. We therefore operate in compliance with all relevant environmental legislation and endeavour to use pollution prevention and environmental best practice in all activities.

Service

Learn more about our Service

As we own, hire and operate all the piling equipment in our sales agency range, it has meant that over the years we have developed a full understanding of the operational side of this equipment. Knowledge that we can pass onto you via a range of services.