Self-drive hire
Flexible hire for experienced operators, by the day, the week or the month.
Crofty Plant Hire
The right kit, on site, on time.
Modern, well-maintained plant and machinery for hire across St Ives, Cornwall, operated or self-drive, by the day, week or full project.
Self-drive Hire
Flexible plant hire for experienced operators, giving you access to reliable machinery when and where your project needs it.
Operator Included Hire
Plant hire supplied with a skilled operator, helping ensure machinery is used safely, efficiently, and to a professional standard on site.
Full Project Hire
Complete plant hire support for larger works, with machinery and operators arranged around your project requirements from start to finish.
Why Crofty Plant Hire?
Crofty Plant Hire grew straight out of running our own construction and groundworks sites, so the fleet is built around the kit St Ives, Cornish jobs actually need. Self-drive or operated, by the day, week or full project: modern, well-maintained machinery from St Ives, Hayle and Penzance.
Operated hire
Ticketed, experienced operators who already know how to work Cornish ground safely.
Full project packages
Plant, operators and supervision wrapped around your programme for larger schemes.
Maintained fleet
Strict service schedules, pre-hire inspections and fast turnarounds between jobs.
Built for Cornwall
Kit sized for tight lanes, coastal sites and the real conditions across St Ives, Cornwall and the South West.
One number, one team
Backed by the wider Crofty construction and groundworks business, not a faceless yard.
Crofty Plant Hire grew straight out of running our own construction and groundworks sites across St Ives, Cornwall, which is why the fleet is built around the kit contractors actually need on a Cornish job rather than what looks good in a catalogue. From St Ives, Hayle and Penzance we supply mini and midi excavators, dumpers, rollers, telehandlers and supporting plant to housebuilders, groundworkers, landscapers, farmers and self-builders right across the South West.
Built around real sites
Every machine is serviced on a strict schedule, inspected before it leaves the yard, and turned around quickly between hires so you are never the customer who finds out a hydraulic hose was overdue. The fleet is sized for tight lanes, coastal plots and live commercial developments, not catalogue photography.
Self-drive or operated
You can take a machine self-drive by the day, week or month, or take it with one of our operators, all ticketed, all experienced on Cornish ground, and all used to working safely on tight residential plots, coastal sites and live commercial developments. For larger schemes we will package plant, operators and supervision around your programme so you are dealing with one number instead of three suppliers.
Reputation on every load
Reputation matters more in plant hire than almost any other trade, because a breakdown on a Friday afternoon costs you a Monday morning, and we have built ours by answering the phone, getting kit on the back of a low-loader fast, and standing behind every machine we send out. Clients keep coming back because the kit turns up clean and fuelled, the paperwork is straightforward, the rates are fair and held to, and when something does go wrong (as it occasionally will with any plant) we sort it without an argument.
Whether you need a single 1.5-tonne excavator for a weekend or a full operated package for a six-month groundworks contract, you get the same attention: the right kit, on site, on time.
Ready to start your plant hire project?
Free, no obligation consultation and quote. Homeowner or commercial, we'd love to hear about it.
- Free consultation
- No-obligation quote
- Fully insured
- 20+ years experience
Why clients choose us
Modern, serviced fleet
Inspected before every hire, never sent out tired.
Ticketed operators
CPCS / NPORS experience across all common plant.
Day, week or project
Hire terms that fit the job, not the other way round.
Fast response
Low-loader out quickly when the programme changes.