Turns up on time
Customers say it in their own words, over and over. Neil turns up when he says he will, does the job that day where he can, and rings if anything changes.
Born and bred, and still at it.
Forty years servicing the Lockyer Valley with all your earthmoving requirements. That is Neil and Kathy's own line, and it has not changed in four decades.
Forty years, one patch of country.
Carpenter Earthmoving is a family-owned business, and it has spent 40 years working the Lockyer Valley. Neil runs the backhoe and the trucks, and if you have lived out this way for a while there is a fair chance he has already dug something on your road.
The reviews say the rest better than we can. Customers who have used him for four years for water. Customers who have had backhoe work done on and off for two decades. The same two names keep coming up, Neil and Kathy, which is what happens when a business stays in one family and one district.
- Family-owned, not a franchise and not a fly-in crew
- Backhoe, tip truck and water truck run by the one outfit
- Straight pricing, described by customers as very reasonable rates
- Water delivered whether or not you are home
Why people keep ringing back.
Local knowledge you cannot buy
Forty years on the same ground means he knows which tracks wash out, where the rock sits and how a block drains before the machine comes off the truck.
Family-owned, and it shows
It is Neil and Kathy's name on the truck. There is no call centre, no account manager and no roster of subbies you have never met turning up at your gate.
Machine and truck, one phone call.
Most jobs out here need something dug and then something carted. Carpenter Earthmoving runs both, so the backhoe floats in on the truck, the spoil goes out on the same truck, and the gravel or topsoil comes back on it. One outfit, one bill, one bloke to ring.
How a job actually runs.
01
Ring or message
Tell Neil what needs moving or how much water you need, and roughly where you are.
02
Get a price
Straightforward work can be estimated online or over the phone. Anything bigger, he comes and looks first.
03
Booked in
You get a day, and he tells you if weather is going to push it. No sitting home waiting on a maybe.
04
Done and cleaned up
The job gets finished, the spoil goes with him, and the site is left tidy enough to drive on.
Where he works.
The Lockyer Valley and surrounding areas, inland South East Queensland. Rural blocks, farms, acreage and town yards alike. Not sure if you are in range? Ring and ask, it takes ten seconds.
- The Lockyer Valley
- Surrounding areas
- Rural acreage
- Farms and paddocks
- House blocks
Cut and fill
Forty years down the road from you.
Ring Neil, describe the job, get a fair price. Same as everyone else out here has been doing for four decades.