Brick grab and pallets
Materials that land where the work is
A load of bricks tipped at the site entrance is only half delivered. Somebody still has to get every pack across the site, and that somebody usually has a machine and a job of their own to be getting on with.
Our lorries carry the load and place it. The brick grab picks a pack straight off the bed and puts it down beside the scaffold, and pallets come off on slings or forks on the boom. Either way the materials end up where the trades are, and your gear stays on the job it was hired for.
We work for builders merchants, groundworkers, housebuilders and site managers around Greater Manchester and the North West, on everything from a single pallet to a full artic load split around a site.
What we carry
The palletised work we get asked for
- Wrapped and banded packs of facing bricks and engineering bricks
- Concrete and aircrete blocks
- Palletised kerbs, edgings and paving flags
- Bagged aggregate, sand, ballast and gravel
- Cement, mortar tubs and dry mix
- Crated stone, slabs and reconstituted stone
- Drainage, fittings and merchant sundries on pallets
- Collection from the merchant or the brickworks to your site
- Moving packs already on site from the compound to the scaffold
- Part loads, from one pallet upwards
Tell us where it has to finish up
Not just the address. Which part of the site, how far in from the road, what the running surface is like and whether the lorry can stand near enough to reach with the boom, and whether the ground will carry the lorry where it needs to stand.
Say as well if the drop is timed, gated or needs signing in. Merchant and housebuilder sites often are, and it is easier for everybody if the driver knows before he sets off rather than sitting outside a locked gate.
Where the brick grab earns its keep
Why a brick grab beats a kerbside drop
A pallet of bricks left at the kerb has to be moved again by somebody, usually by hand or by a machine hired for the morning. A brick grab delivery puts the pack down where the bricklayers are actually working, which is the whole point of it.
- Packs of facing bricks placed beside the scaffold rather than on the drive
- Blocks set down at the back of a plot with no road access
- Kerbs and edgings dropped along the line they are being laid
- Bagged aggregate and cement lifted over a fence into a rear garden
- Paving and slabs placed close to the area being laid, not at the gate
- Palletised roof tiles set down clear of the working area
- Returns and part packs collected on the same visit
- Deliveries onto soft ground where a forklift would sink
Brick grab and palletised delivery is the sort of work where the difference between a good day and a wasted one is fifteen feet. If the pack lands in the wrong place, somebody spends the morning moving it. Tell us where the trades are working and the driver will put it there.
The grab handles packs and banded materials. Anything loose, awkward or already on chains comes off on the hook instead, which the same lorry can do without anything being swapped over.
Common questions
Brick grab delivery, answered
Can you put the packs where the bricklayers are working?
That is the whole idea. We lift the packs off with the grab on the boom and set them down, so they land beside the scaffold rather than at the entrance for somebody else to move again.
What is a brick grab?
An attachment on the end of the boom that closes on a pack of bricks or blocks and lifts it without slings or a pallet. It is quick, it keeps the pack together, and it means a load can be split around a site in a few minutes.
Do you sell the bricks as well?
No. We are a haulage and lifting company. You buy the materials from whoever you like and we collect and deliver them, or we move what you already have from one part of a site to another.
Can you deliver to a house rather than a building site?
Yes, and we do it often for extensions and driveways. A domestic drop needs a bit more thought about where the lorry stands and what is overhead, so tell us about the street and the drive when you email.
Will you take pallets that are not bricks?
Yes. Blocks, kerbs, flags, bagged aggregate, cement, mortar tubs, drainage and merchant sundries all travel and come off the same way. If it is on a pallet or in a pack, it suits us.
How much notice do you need?
The more the better, but we are used to short notice when a site runs short. Email us and tell us what you need and when, and we will tell you straight away whether we can do it.
