The Emerald tool shop that speaks farmer. Not just miner.
You're not running a mine, but plenty of tool shops treat you like you are. You came in for fencing gear, a decent welder and something to keep the ute, the pump and the slasher going — and got pointed at a wall of mine-site PPE by someone who's never mended a fence in a hurry before dark.
CH Tools carries the welding, workshop, fencing and property-maintenance kit the people running Central Highlands land actually use — from a crew that gets ag.
Running land is its own trade. Your tool shop should know it.
A property doesn't keep separate hours for broken gear. Fencing, welding a cracked bracket, keeping the workshop and the machinery going — it's all the same afternoon, and the last thing you need is a shop that only speaks mining. Farmers want one place that understands the mix: light enough for the everyday jobs, tough enough for the ones that can't wait.
CH Tools is family-owned and local — Mark, Kelly and the team — and the Central Highlands is farming country as much as it's mining country. We stock and back the gear that keeps land running, and we'll talk it through like people who know the work, not a catalogue.
On the floor.
Welding, fencing, workshop and property gear
The everyday kit for running a property — welders and consumables for the repair jobs, fencing gear, hand tools, drilling and threading, chemicals and lubricants, lifting and handling, and the bits that keep machinery moving. Plus the PPE, because a job on your own place is still a job that can hurt you. We carry real depth across the brands worth running. Where something isn't on the floor, it goes on the order against our weekly inbound.
On the tow ball — box, cage, tipper, float
Trailers are a real part of what we supply now, and unlike most of the shop this is gear we can spec to the job rather than sell off a shelf. General box, cage and tipper trailers. Plant and machinery floats. Site service and workshop trailers. Skip bin and waste trailers. 20ft container trailers. The custom side is where it gets useful for a property — horse floats, purpose-built commercial trailers, one-offs. If you can spec it, we can quote it.
Get a trailer quoted →Getting it out there — Emerald to the front gate
You shouldn't have to make a special trip in every time something breaks. Next day inside a 50km radius of Emerald. Within 48 hours anywhere beyond — Springsure, Rolleston, Capella, Clermont, Dingo, Duaringa, Blackwater and out west through Alpha, Jericho, Barcaldine and Longreach. If you're already in town, collect from the counter the same day.
Delivery and click & collect →Past the hand tools — the gear that keeps machinery going
Plenty of what a working property needs never turns up in a tool aisle. Lube bay gear — pumps, hose reels, metering. Fluid handling. Compressors and generators. Heavy lifting equipment. Vehicle hoists, tyre changers and wheel balancers if you're running your own service bay. We quote it, source it, deliver it, and stand behind it after. Same as we do for the workshops and contractors around here.
Same shows, same clubs, same roads.
We back the Emerald Horse and Pony Club, the Lochington Rural Fire Service, the Sunflower Festival and the Capella Country Music Festival. Denison State School, the Emerald Car Club and the local poker run, the Emerald Karting Club, Borilla Kindy and the Special Children's Christmas Party.
Not a logo on a banner. This is where we work and where our kids grow up, and a fair few of the people running land around here we know by name well before they walk through the door.
After farm and property gear near Emerald? Tell us what you're running.
CH Tools is the Emerald tool shop that speaks farmer, not just miner. We carry welding, fencing, workshop and property-maintenance gear for people running Central Highlands land, supply trailers from box and tipper to plant floats and custom horse floats, and deliver next day within 50km of Emerald and within 48 hours beyond. Family-owned, local, and backing the clubs and shows around here.
58 Hospital Rd, Emerald QLD 4720. Need tools? Think CH Tools.