The Equipment Necessary for a Successful Landscaping Operation

Landscaping is a challenging, yet rewarding, line of work — with a creative vision and high-quality tools you can transform a drab, uninspired space into an enchanting, natural oasis.

To ease operations, reduce overhead costs and minimize project times, you need the right landscaping equipment. While you can purchase many basic landscaping tools at your local hardware store, in order to be a successful, growing landscaping company, you’ll need professional and effective landscaping-specific equipment.

Equipment Needed for a Landscaping Business

When starting your own landscaping company, you’ll need to purchase or rent a variety of different tools, vehicles, and machinery to beautifully alter and enhance your local landscapes. The most important equipment needed for a successful landscaping business include:

• Vehicles: One of the largest upfront expenses you’ll have to consider is vehicle purchases — you’ll have to find durable, reliable vehicles with a flatbed and locking toolbox to easily haul and unload equipment and landscaping materials.

• Utility trailers: For larger equipment like lawn mowers, hedgers and weed wackers, you’ll need a sizable utility trailer that can easily store all your tools while allowing simple on and off-loading.

• Storage locations: With the variety of equipment you’ll need, large and small, you’ll need to make sure you have adequate protected storage space. Find a sizable storage location that can easily accommodate all of your equipment and tools.

• Small landscaping tools: You’ll need to have small landscaping tools readily available to accommodate any type of landscaping project, including lawn mowers, snow removal tools, sprayers, trimmers, blowers, shovels, spades, hoes, hoses, pruners, shears and more.

• Heavy landscaping equipment: For large-scale landscaping renovations, you’ll need to have reliable access to heavy equipment like earthmoving machinery, skidders, tractors, stump cutters, tree spades, and brush chippers.

Benefits of Renting Heavy Equipment

While purchasing landscaping equipment may seem appealing upfront when buying new materials for your business, consider renting large landscaping machinery. By renting heavy landscaping equipment like brush chippers and skidders, you can easily save on upfront equipment costs, as well as:

• Have more flexible short-term project availability and new revenue opportunities

• Have consistent access to the latest industry equipment and technology advancements

• Lower your maintenance, repair and equipment storage needs and expenses

A Variety of Equipment for Landscaping Businesses Available at The Cat® Rental Store

At The Cat® Rental Store, we offer a large variety of different heavy equipment rentals ideal for any type of landscaping project. Our team of knowledgeable, experienced professionals can work closely with you to find appropriate machinery that best fits your project specifications and perform a range of heavy-duty services. Explore our selection of landscaping equipment guaranteed to provide lasting effectiveness and dependability, including:

• Feller bunchers
• Forestry machinery
• Forwarders
• Harvesters
• Ride-on and walk-behind trenchers
• Skidders
• Stump cutters
• Tree spades