Poltimore Plant Ltd

W.J.BALSDON & SONS

Specializing in all types of general haulage, abnormal loads, truck mounted cranes and plant hire for over 50 years.

Our Services

Heavy Haulage and Abnormal loads

Ability to move loads up to 95 tons in weight, 14 feet tall, 120 feet long and as wide as will fit!

plant and machinery movement

We have a variety of extendable step-frames, flat trailers and rigids

Crane lifting boiler of GWR railway loco No. 4277

lorry mounted cranes

We can lift over a ton at a distance of 33m with our 110 ton/m Fassi

Scania R-Series Tippers

Tipper hire

Two 6 wheel tippers for muckaway, as well as the ability to arrange tipping facilities

Plant Hire

A range of plant available for hire

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We pride ourselves on being devon’s original heavy haulier

It all started in 1958, when the late Wally Balsdon established the business driving a BTD6 bulldozer felling trees and removing roots. In the 1970’s he progressed into the demolition industry, and decided that rather than hiring in transport to move his machinery, he would move his own equipment with his own trucks. It is from these primitive beginnings with a Leyland Marathon and 4-in-line trailer painted in red and yellow that the fleet we know today grew…
From the smallest of mini diggers to the heaviest of crushers, the largest of cabins and everything in between, we’ve moved it all over the years, and this experience is what puts us above the rest.

 

Years Established

Generations

Case Studies

DSRRB Boiler lifts

Weighing up to 20 tons and with a replacement value that can be over £1m, the lifting and turning of a railway locomotive boiler is not for the faint hearted.

Scania 164 with amphibious vehicle converted to a bus

hms calcutta figurehead

From Bickleigh in Devon to the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the movement of this priceless figurehead required some careful planning.

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new case study coming soon

Contact Us

Great Western Yard, station road, Hele, Exeter, EX5 4PW

01392 841040

info@poltimoreplant.com