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Leikah Plant Hire

Heavy plant, earthmoving and mechanical support across the Mpumalanga coalfields.

  • 24-Hour Dispatch
  • Plant Hire
  • Earthmoving
  • Heavy Mechanical
  • Middelburg, Mpumalanga
In association withISM Supply and Maintenance

One contractor for the machines that move the ground and the workshop that keeps them moving. Middelburg, since the yard opened.

Est. Mpumalanga · Plant · Earthmoving · Mechanical

Working across the Mpumalanga coalfields, quarries and industrial corridor
MiddelburgWitbank / eMalahleniHendrinaBelfastSteelpoortDelmasOgiesKrielSecundaLydenburg / Mashishing
What we do

Two divisions, one number to call

We move bulk material, build and hold haul roads, and rebuild the components that stop your fleet — from a yard inside the Middelburg heavy-engineering corridor, with breakdown response answered around the clock.

Most operations end up managing an earthmoving contractor and a mechanical contractor separately, and discovering at the worst moment that neither owns the problem. Leikah runs both under one roof.

The earthmoving side moves material and builds the roads that carry it. The mechanical side keeps the machines that do it — yours as well as ours — in production, with a workshop on July Street and mobile units that go out at any hour. The supply division sits behind both, because the yard is inside the corridor where the parts already are.

One accountable contractor

Production and maintenance under one contract removes the gap that both sides usually point at when something goes wrong.

A workshop that backs the fleet

Machines on hire are not waiting on a third party. Component work happens in our own bays, on our own schedule.

Inside the parts corridor

OEM dealers, machining houses and wholesalers sit within a short drive of the yard, which is why lead times are short.

A Leikah-liveried Toyota Hilux service bakkie in gold and black branding
Base of operations

7 July Street, New Industrial Area

Middelburg, Mpumalanga

Off Cowen Ntuli Street in the New Industrial Area, in the yard shared with the July Street commercial precinct. Ten minutes from the N4 and inside the heavy-engineering corridor, which is why parts land the same day.

Operating divisions

Four divisions that answer to one contract

Production and maintenance under one roof, so there is no gap in the middle for a problem to fall into.
01

Earthmoving & Plant Hire

Machines, operators and production on the bench

Dozers, excavators, haulers and graders supplied wet or dry, with operators who have worked a coal face before. Bulk cut, overburden, haul roads, rehabilitation and stockpile handling.

02

Heavy Mechanical

Component rebuilds and planned maintenance

Diesel engines, powershift transmissions, final drives and hydraulics stripped, measured, rebuilt to OEM specification and returned under warranty. Planned maintenance contracts that stop failures before they cost a shift.

03

Supply Division

Parts on site before the shift changes

Filtration, lubricants, hydraulic hose assemblies, undercarriage, ground-engaging tools and workshop consumables, sourced through the OEM corridor on our doorstep and delivered to site.

04

24-Hour Breakdown

Mobile workshops, answered day or night

Fully equipped field service units carrying diagnostics, welding, crimping and fluid transfer, dispatched to your site the moment a machine stops.

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0+Years on the coalfieldsDerived from the founding year on the business record.
02
0/7Breakdown dispatchAnswered every day of the year, public holidays included.
03
0Operating divisionsEarthmoving, mechanical, supply and emergency response.
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0Towns in the service footprintAcross the Mpumalanga coalfields and the corridor around them.
The fleet

The plant that does the work

Machine class is matched to the bench, the haul and the ground — not to whatever happens to be standing idle. Every unit goes out on a signed condition report.
A freshly refurbished Caterpillar D10T dozer standing on rock at a mine site

Track-Type Tractors

Bulk push, ripping and the machine the business is named for

Dozers do the work that sets up everything else — stripping, bulk push, ripping hard material ahead of the excavators, and trimming the benches and ramps the rest of the fleet runs on. Supplied wet with an operator who has worked a coal face, or dry against your own crew.

  • Topsoil stripping and overburden push
  • Ripping weathered and hard material
  • Haul road formation and ramp construction
  • Stockpile trimming and tip-head maintenance
See how we run it
Class
D6 – D10
Operating weight
20 – 70 t
Attachments
Semi-U blade, single-shank ripper
Hire basis
Wet or dry, monthly or contract
Capability

What we are asked for most

Each service has its own method, plant list and safety controls. Nothing here is a category heading — it is work we do to a documented process.

Bulk Excavation & Overburden Stripping

Opening and advancing the cut — topsoil, softs and hard overburden moved to plan, on volume and on schedule.

Continuous production shifts, 7 daysDetail
02Haul Road Construction & MaintenanceRoads built and held to a standard that protects your tyre and suspension spend as much as your cycle times.
03Plant Hire — Wet & DryDozers, excavators, haulers and support plant on hire, with or without operators, mobilised on low-bed to your site.
04Heavy Diesel Engine OverhaulsFull strip, measure, machine and rebuild of heavy diesel engines to OEM specification, returned with a warranty and the report to back it.
05Transmission & Final Drive RebuildsPowershift transmissions, differentials, final drives and torque converters rebuilt, tested and returned ready to fit.
06Hydraulic Systems, Cylinders & HoseCylinder re-lining, pump and valve bank overhaul, and hose assemblies crimped on site or in the workshop.
07Planned Maintenance ContractsScheduled servicing, oil sampling and condition monitoring that catches failures while they are still a service, not a rebuild.
How a job runs

From the first call to the machine back in production

Five stages. Each one has an output you can see, and nothing moves to the next until the previous one is signed.
  1. 01Day one

    Site walk and scope

    We walk the ground with your planner, agree what is actually being asked for, and lift a starting survey both parties sign.

  2. 02Before mobilisation

    Method and safety file

    Sequence, fleet, slope angles and traffic management written up and submitted to your SHE department in your template.

  3. 03Week one

    Mobilisation

    Plant transported in on low-bed, inspected on arrival, operators inducted before a machine turns a track.

  4. 04Throughout

    Production and maintenance

    Benches advance to the agreed sequence while planned servicing and 24-hour response keep the fleet on the face.

  5. 05Close-out

    Survey and handover

    Final surface surveyed and reconciled against design, handed over with as-built data and the volume reconciliation pack.

Why operations choose Leikah

The difference is in what gets written down

Anyone can move dirt or turn a spanner. What a mine planner or a maintenance manager actually buys is predictability — and predictability is a documentation habit.

Answered around the clock

The breakdown line reaches a person every hour of every day, including public holidays. A call is logged with machine, fault and access before a unit rolls.

Quoted on measurement

Rebuilds are quoted after the strip, not before it. You approve a scope built on gauged findings and a line-by-line parts schedule.

Documented as standard

Build sheets, strip reports, condition reports and survey reconciliations are issued as a matter of course, not on request.

Equipped to finish on the first visit

Field units carry diagnostics, welding, hose crimping and fluid transfer, which is why most call-outs are closed without a second trip.

Sectors

The pressure is different in every sector

Mining, quarrying, civils, industrial and public-sector operations each carry constraints of their own. We work to yours, not to a generic method.
01

Mining & Open-Cast

Coal and hard-rock operations across the Mpumalanga fields, where a stopped machine is a stopped shift.

Sector detail
02

Construction & Civils

Bulk earthworks, platform preparation and plant hire for contractors working to a programme and a penalty clause.

Sector detail
Recent work

What the work looked like, and what it changed

Client names are withheld where contracts require it. Everything else — the method, the programme and the outcome — is on the record.
Delivered
Middelburg districtJun 2024

Main haul route rebuilt and placed under standing maintenance

A deteriorating primary haul route rebuilt to a layer design, then held under a standing grader and water circuit.

Coal producer, Mpumalanga
Delivered
Middelburg districtJan 2025

Mining excavator returned to production without leaving the bench

A primary loading unit failed on a coal bench. The field crew mobilised the same day and repaired it in place rather than recovering it.

Coal producer, Mpumalanga
Delivered
July Street workshop, Middelburg

Rolling powertrain rebuild programme across a hauler fleet

Transmissions and final drives rebuilt on a rolling schedule set by oil analysis, so units come off before they fail.

Contract miner, Mpumalanga
Health, safety & environment

The controls come first, and anyone can stop the job

Heavy plant, live benches and a workshop full of stored energy do not forgive improvisation. Every person on a Leikah crew has the authority to stop work when a control is missing — without permission and without consequence.

Isolation and lock-out before every task, with stored energy released and implements supported mechanically

Method statements, risk assessments and safety files prepared in your template, to your SHE department's requirements

Operator competencies, medicals and legal appointments tracked to expiry and renewed before they lapse

Spill containment deployed before a line is opened, with licensed disposal and certificates retained

Tell us what has stopped, or what needs to move

Send the machine and the fault, or the volume and the deadline. You will get a straight answer on whether we can do it, when, and what it costs.

Breakdowns are answered 24 hours a day, every day of the year.