Hitachi and Perfection Landscape Services

After nearly a quarter of a century in large-scale landscaping, Perfection Landscape Services in Sydney's Hills District knows what works. For the past 15 years, it's been Hitachi Construction Machinery.

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Sean Murphy is a cheerful sort of bloke and was very happy to chat about the Hitachi excavator fleet currently doing service with his employer, Perfection Landscape Services.

"We have two 13-tonners and four fivetonners - two new ones we've bought and two older ones - and an eight-tonner," he listed for Landscape Contractor magazine before pointing out, "We've been using Hitachi for around 15 years."

All jobs covered

All the excavators do their assigned tasks well, but it's the smaller machines which currently have management smiling.

"We have two 13-tonners that do a lot of the heavy lifting and bulk handling," Sean explained. "We might be prepping, for example, 500 tree pits in a subdivision. That's perfect for a 13-tonne excavator, because it knocks them out in no time.

"But when we're doing detailing, as in physically planting the trees, that's where the five-tonne excavators come into it, because they're smaller and more manoeuvrable.