Built From the Ground Up

Clyde Cowley, Managing Director

Twelve years as a rigger at Downer Group. Then COVID hit and took everything. Most people would have found another job. Clyde rebuilt — not into the same role, but into something bigger.

Clyde Services started as one man and a vision: bring specialist lifting capability to the jobs that nobody else wants to take on. The ones that are classically "too hard to do." That was always the bread and butter, and it still is.

The company was incorporated in 2012, based out of Onehunga, Auckland. After the COVID collapse, Clyde came back harder — investing in the equipment that would let him compete at a level most operators can't touch. The centrepiece: a Magni RTH 6.46, the largest rotational telehandler in Oceania. Purchased through APS Equipment and Darren Boon, this machine is the foundation everything else is built on.

Today, Clyde Services works alongside some of New Zealand's most respected rigging and crane companies — Amalgamated Rigging, Universal CranesNZ, JD Rigging, Auckland Cranes — on major commercial construction, telecommunications infrastructure, and civil engineering projects across the country.

How We Work

We don't do things by half. When you hire Clyde Services, you get the machine and the operator who knows it inside out. You get the rigging knowledge from twelve years on the tools. You get someone who answers their phone and turns up when they say they will.

We work weekends when the job needs it. We partner with the best companies in the business because that's how you deliver on the hard jobs. And we invest in the equipment that lets us say yes when everyone else says "that's too difficult."

Industry Connections

Clyde Services doesn't operate in isolation. We work alongside — and are trusted by — the industry's top companies:

• Amalgamated Rigging — specialist rigging partner
• Universal CranesNZ — crane operations coordination
• JD Rigging — multi-crew project collaboration
• Auckland Cranes — tower crane support
• Ground Pro Ltd — geotechnical operations

These aren't just contractors we've worked with once. They're the A-Team — the companies that call us when the job demands the right machine and the right operator.