INDUSTRY PEOPLE
Super Giants are made for the rough New Zealand terrain.
for the civil division. My focus is to get that brand even
more established in the civil sector.”
“We have taken what we know from the previous piledrivers
that had been developed under the KingHitters
(also a Fairbrother Industries company) and Fence Pro
brands and amalgamated them into one really good
machine.”
Clients who buy the Hooper brand comment that it’s
“over-engineered”. That might sound like a negative, but
in reality it’s the act of designing a product to be more
robust than it needs to be, so that failure of components
is minimised. The other aspect is to keep it simple
enough so that repairs and replacements
are not overly complex.
Hooper products also come with their
own bearing system with its own two-year
warranty, which means servicing the gear is low-drama
for all involved.
It’s the discs too that have become a feature of the
civil work Hooper is embarking on. Work is continuing
“New Zealand terrain is a
rugged individual, and the
gear can handle that.”
to occur around the country; there is a steady supply
of civil activity in Auckland, including the Puhoi
Expressway, but contractors have specialist needs that
can be met by Hooper too.
New Zealand terrain is a rugged individual, and the gear
can handle that.
For example, the Super Giant discs used for either
farming or civil projects are made for “bush and
bog” and are often nicknamed that because of their
reputation for being able to break the land initially in
very rough and severe conditions. Other equipment
such as post rammers, can be attached to either a
digger or a tractor and this configuration
is becoming more common. The simple
design also allows a switch between
tractor and excavator.
Another product, the Hooper Pile-X-550C is a specialist
digger-mounted pile-driver that will work with any
excavator. It is ostensibly very simple to attach and
operate. The pile driver only requires a hydraulic circuit
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