Christchurch & Canterbury wide       027 686 8004 — Andy       [email protected]

Earthworks, Drainage & Cartage Services in Canterbury

Machinery and trucks to match the job, plus specialist rural gear. If it isn’t listed, ask.

Skid steer and roller preparing a building site in a Christchurch subdivision

Earthworks & Excavation

Bulk and detailed excavation for house sites, sheds, subdivisions and farm infrastructure. Cut and fill, foundations and footings, retaining excavations, pole holes and service trenching, plus rock breaking where the ground fights back. We survey levels before we start, keep spoil sorted for reuse where it makes sense, and cart the rest away. Machines from 1.7T for tight backyard access through to 20T for open ground, so you’re never paying for more digger than the job needs.

Driveway construction in progress with base course and timber edging

Driveways & Site Preparation

New driveways, farm tracks and yards built from the subgrade up — strip the topsoil, shape the falls, lay and compact basecourse, then finish in metal, AP20 or ready for your paving or concrete. Building platforms cut to level, proof-rolled and compaction-tested so your builder can pour without surprises. We also repair tired driveways: regrade, top up metal and sort the drainage that caused the potholes in the first place.

Excavated soak pit with safety fencing for a Canterbury drainage job

Drainage & Civil Works

Stormwater and wastewater lines, soak pits and detention, novaflo and field drains, culverts and headwalls, and water and power service trenching laid to spec and backfilled properly. We solve wet-site problems too — surface water off driveways and yards, swales, sumps and open drains cleaned out. Everything set to grade with a laser and left ready for council or engineer sign-off, working in alongside your drainlayer or plumber where it’s certified work.

Kubota track loader spreading base course for foundation prep in Christchurch

Aggregate Supply & Placement

AP20 and AP40 basecourse, drainage metal, river rock, sand, screened topsoil and bark supplied direct from Canterbury quarries and suppliers. We work out the quantities for you, cart it in, then spread and roll it — graded, compacted and finished, not just tipped in a pile at your gate. Single-trailer loads for a small driveway patch through to multi-truck days on a full site.

Waghorn Contracting Scania truck and tipping trailer on a rural Canterbury site

Trucking & Cartage in Canterbury

Tipper and transporter work across Christchurch and Canterbury: spoil, rubble and green waste out, metal and topsoil in, and machinery shifted between sites on the transporter. Regular cartage for builders and farmers, plus one-off loads at short notice. Sensible about access, truck-and-trailer or single unit depending on what your site and road will take.

Newly formed farm race running alongside a shelter belt in Canterbury

Rural & Commercial Contracting

Ongoing contracting for farms and businesses: race construction and repair, effluent ponds and lanes, irrigation mainline trenching and pivot track maintenance, fencelines cleared, silage pits and feed pads. On the commercial side, yards and hardstand, carpark subgrade, subdivision earthworks and site services. Happy on day rates or fixed price, and used to working around stock, staff and live operations without shutting you down.

Rural Contracting: Under-Pivot Work & Hedge Trimming

Gear sized and set up for irrigated country: cleaning up under pivots without tearing the paddock apart, and hedge and shelterbelt trimming cut clean and left tidy.

Tractor-mounted hedge trimmer saw and Waghorn Contracting ute on a Canterbury farm
Freshly trimmed pine shelterbelt along a rural Canterbury road
Hedge trimmed low under a centre pivot irrigator on a Canterbury farm