Six decades in the making. Still moving earth.
From a single Bedford truck in 1958 to 60+ machines working sites across Queensland — Ipswich Machining is a family business that has spent 65 years doing one thing: earthworks, done right, on time, by our own crews.
A family name, earned one job at a time
Ipswich Machining runs out of Ipswich, Queensland — from the Turley Street yard the family has worked from since 1958. We're a 50+ person operation with 60+ machines, and we take our name from the Bachmann family who've been in this trade for six and a half decades.
No subbed-out shortcuts. Our crews, our machines, our accountability — that's how the work has gone for 65 years, and that's how it continues.
On site, QLD
Earthworks, end to end
From the first cut to the final grade — one crew, one fleet, one number to call.
Bulk Earthworks
Big numbers, clean handovers — bulk cut & fill, mass hauls and site development from pads to full earthworks packages, delivered by our own crews and our own fleet.
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Cut & Fill, Grading
From the first cut to the final grade: site levelling, building pads, subdivision earthworks and machine finishing to spec.
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Wet Plant Hire
Wet hire with an experienced operator on every machine — modern, low-hour equipment, supplied with the operator who knows how to run it.
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Demolition
Select and full-site demolition with in-house plant and crew — safe, dust-managed, and carted away by our own fleet.
Enquire →- Compaction (CAT 815 + Topcon GPS)
- Landfill rehabilitation & capping
- Sports ovals & dams
- Building pads & subdivision earthworks
- GPS machine control / 3D earthworks
- Material import & export
- Dust suppression
- Erosion control
Cut. Fill. Level. Repeat.
Every day since 1958.
Six and a half decades of moving earth
A Bedford truck in 1958. A family business by 1965. A permanent Ipswich base by 1992. 200+ machines at peak scale. 60+ today — the business is still family-run, still growing, still in the ground all over Queensland.
60+ machines, maintained in-house
Dozers, excavators, scrapers, tilt trucks, graders, loaders and compaction — bought, maintained and repaired by our own yard crew, so when a site needs iron, the iron is already ours.
Yard, Ipswich
Work that speaks for itself
A few of the packages that show what this name carries.
500,000 m³ lake — BMD
A half-million cubic metre lake — one of the largest single earthworks packages in the state — delivered by our own fleet and crews.
Brisbane Airport expansion
Large excavators working the Brisbane Airport expansion — the sort of high-visibility, high-stakes site where our crews have been for decades.
The names that keep coming back
Our crews. Our machines. Our name in the ground.
Got earth moving? Let's talk numbers.
Call, or send a quick message — we reply within one business day, and we quote on volume, not just time.