Specialist court construction company, Court Craft was called on to rebuild the affected courts. The work involved removal of old asphalt, followed by preparation of a supporting road base structure, new asphalt and a final layer of green Plexipave Netball surface.

Following excavation of the old asphalt surfaces, preparation for the new courts involved laying down 200 cubic metres of road base. A 5,000 Litre capacity watercart from TWS Hire was called in to perform the task of keeping the road base wet as part of the levelling and compaction process.

Court Craft selected the TWS Hire watercart because it was rated as ‘car licence’ and authorised for operation by any of their staff with a current drivers’ licence. The vehicle was also small enough for easy manoeuvrability on the site. Tank refills were carried out by using the supplied standpipe connected to the water main connection point located in the street adjacent to the court site.

“Court Craft appreciated that the 5000 L watercart was able to get the job done safely and within the prescribed time”, said TWS Hire’s Bill Bastian. “All our late-model water carts are delivered to site complete with full operational instructions, up-to-date regulatory and service records, fully serviced and ready to go to work”, he said.

About Court Craft

Court Craft was formed in 1977 and was taken over by the present management in 1986. Court Craft builds a wide variety of sporting installations both indoor and outdoor plus general outdoor environments. This includes installations such as hockey fields, tennis courts, school ground constructions, netball courts, basketball courts, soccer fields, bowls greens, sport fields, cricket pitches, golf, playgrounds, volleyball courts, badminton courts. Court Craft carries out all aspects of a project from planning, Council submissions, construction of facilities, clubhouses and amenities, lighting systems and landscaping.

Profitability is critical to maintaining the health and longevity of any business, therefore any equipment you purchase or hire needs to be the best in its class, not only to get the job done quickly and efficiently, but also to protect worker safety.

Watercarts need to be easy to drive and equipped with all the features that make an operator’s life comfortable and helps to maintain their full attention on the job. At TWS HIRE, our aim is to provide equipment that’s best in its class, such as our new 5000 litre capacity automatic transmission water carts.

Apart from their superior reliability and ease of operation from their automatic transmission, these watercarts are designed to full safety specification. Features include internal and external emergency stop controls, internal and external fire extinguishers, first aid kit, reversing camera, reverse squawker, wheel nut indicators, battery isolation switch, UHF radio, flashing beacon and safety tape in yellow, white and red highlights.

These dry hire car licence automatic transmission 5000 litre watercarts feature fully baffled water tanks to prevent braking surge.

Most important, all vehicles are hired with current details of insurance, service records, risk management statements and any necessary compliance validation.

If you really care about profit, productivity and safety talk to us today on 0448 892 837 or email watercarts@bigpond.com about hiring one of our fleet of new 5000 litre capacity car licence automatic transmission water carts. You will find our rates are super-competitive and we deliver to your site.

At the Woorong Park development at Shanes Park in Sydney’s West, archaeology consultant AECOM is undertaking a series of manual ‘open area’ salvage excavations as part of a larger Aboriginal Archaeological Salvage Program in advance of residential development. AECOM is undertaking this program in partnership with a number of Aboriginal persons and organisations.

“Wet sieving is the most effective way of ensuring we get the highest yield of artefacts. We run excavated sediment through 3 mm gauge sieves”, said Dr Andrew McLaren, AECOM’s Senior Archaeologist.

A TWS Hire 10,000 litre watercart with a diesel pump feeds water into a two-inch hose which runs into a built-for-purpose manifold with multiple garden hose connections for wet sieving. The equipment enables the AECOM field team to effectively sieve sediments from the salvage excavations being undertaken.

“The area being excavated is rich in artefacts, attesting to repeated use by Aboriginal people over a long period of time”. Recovered artefacts consist exclusively of flaked stone artefacts, with material excavated to date considered to be of ‘Middle to Late Bondaian’ antiquity (c.4,000 BP to European contact).”

“In these open area excavations, we seek to recover statistically viable cultural lithic assemblages which can be used to address a range of research questions concerning past Aboriginal settlement and subsistence strategies on a local and sub-regional scale.

AECOM is a global network of experts working with clients, communities and colleagues to develop and implement innovative solutions to the world’s most complex challenges.  Delivering clean water and energy; building iconic skyscrapers; planning new cities; restoring damaged environments; connecting people and economies with roads, bridges, tunnels and transit systems. AECOM connects expertise across services, markets, and geographies to deliver transformative outcomes. Worldwide, AECOM designs, builds, finances, operates and manages projects and programs that unlock opportunities and protect the environment and improve people’s lives.

Construction sites with a narrow or complex layout may present a challenge in getting equipment on site. Smaller sites may have issues with storing equipment while waiting for deployment.

Situations like these that prompted TWS Hire to introduce a watercart option that enables site managers to comply with dust suppression or road cleaning regulations or general water supply, without the need to hire a full size watercart.

“Now you don’t have to hire equipment that that may be larger than necessary for a water supply task, regardless of how small the work site may be. Apart from the cost factor, equipment that is larger than needed for a job takes up too much space and in doing so, introduces inefficiency that is counter-productive to the contractor’s task”, said TWS Hire’s Bill Bastian.

The towable watercart is equipped with a 1,000 litre capacity tank and the same high performance Honda pump as supplied on all TWS Hire watercarts. The trailer is slightly wider than a car or utility, making it ideal for applications such as smaller landscape construction projects accessed by narrow driveways, or other sites that may present an access challenge for larger vehicles.

“We have customers who find it difficult justify the full cost of hiring a full-sized 4,500 litre capacity watercart. For these smaller sites, a trailer-mounted system is ideal for their project and the lower cost of equipment rental enables them to optimise their profit.

“Space is also an issue on occasions and the smaller footprint of a trailer on a construction site can be a real bonus in terms of space sharing with other vehicles. The trailer can be parked out of the way and simply attached to any vehicle with a tow bar when water is needed on the site.

The high-performance Honda is sufficiently powerful to enable up to 10 garden hoses to be simultaneously fed from the tank, while two independently operated rear-mounted fan sprays may be activated individually or in unison.

The unit is also ideal for connecting pressure cleaners as the pump is equipped with a recycling system that keeps water circulating through the pump even when a washer is being used intermittently.

Trailers may be towed by any vehicle with a standard tow-hitch and are equipped with override brakes that don’t require any ancillary braking system from the tow vehicle.

The trailers are fully road registered in New South Wales at two tonnes and are worksite safety compliant, fitted with LED lights, reflective taping and a tested fire extinguisher. Full insurance and compliance certification is provided, along with risk assessment documentation.

Bill Bastian said the addition of this equipment cements TWS Hire’s reputation as a comprehensive hire of water delivery solutions”, “We now have watercarts all in all capacities to meet every known construction industry and landscape or water application.”

Constant movement of construction vehicles on and off the site means that adjacent busy vehicle carriageways had to be kept clear of muddy soil being deposited on the road surface. Contractors, Christie Civil Pty Ltd is using a compact water cart of 4,500 litres capacity to clean the roads twice daily.

Christie Civil’s site engineer, Royce Choe said “We needed a compact watercart that was small enough to take up minimum space on the site and could be operated by any of our site workers holding a standard car licence.

“Manoeuvrability is important for us. There is not a lot of space to move, as well as limited space available to park equipment while not in use. We also had to ensure the watercart is fully maintained with all documentation and reports that meet the requirements of the site safety regulators.

The Watercart was provided by TWS hire. “Christie Civil is typical of our construction customers who need the latest equipment that’s reliable, fully equipped for the task and will meet the most stringent requirements of site inspections’’ said TWS Hire’s general manager, Bill Bastian.

“Rather than continually upgrade older trucks, our policy is to regularly add new equipment that will more than satisfy the needs of our customers. We’re offering the latest generation equipment that is totally site compliant.

“Increasingly, suppliers like ourselves are required to submit equipment for pre-hire inspections where we have to produce mechanical and operability certificates issued by a registered mechanic. Under these circumstances it makes sense to ensure all our vehicles have been maintained diligently in top condition”, he said.

About Christie Civil Pty Ltd
Christie Civil is a Sydney-based civil engineering and construction contractor with a staff of over 35 including 10 professional engineers and eight full time site foremen. The company has a high reputation for its specialisation in successfully completing some of the most challenging and unusual projects in the areas of water and wastewater, road works, building sites, bridges, structural works, excavation and earthworks.