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KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY Myaree Cranes has helped build the suburbs of Perth for over 35 years. The family business is now planning for a generational change. MYAREE CRANES is a family business with father Darryl Stoddart and sons Justin and Shane at the helm. Both sons are tradesmen, Justin is a cabinet maker by trade, and he joined the business in 1997. Shane is a plumber and joined in 2005. Both came into the family business to learn about it in preparation for the generational change. In the early 70s, Darryl started work as a truck driver and mechanic with a transport company called Rinaldi and Patroni Crane and Transport Hire which was a state-wide crane and transport company. “They had cranes there as well and they started off with an old Blitz Crane which I started driving around in the yard, loading trucks. They moved up from there and bought a 6t JEC and an 8t BHB, they then bought a 20t Kato and a 41t Grove and I moved up to operating these. After this I moved into the office in a supervising role as a workshop foreman. The company got
into some difficulties where a few things happened in the business, and I had the opportunity to move out and start out on my own,” Darryl said. In 1984, Darryl teamed up with his mate and business partner Graham DeMamiel and they bought the 6t and 8t cranes and started Myaree Crane Hire Services. The business worked throughout the metro area including Fremantle and Perth and mainly concentrated on the housing construction boom. Justin said that the business concentrated on small jobs due to the size of the cranes. Darryl and DeMamiel bought a new 10t BHB, when they were still making tractor cranes, and they bought their first Franna in the late 80s when pick and carries were first introduced. They began to update the fleet and replaced the tractor cranes which had served the company well and for a long time. “Graham (DeMamiel) left the
business and Dad took it over with Mum. Working in the housing construction market a lot of the sites were quite tight, especially when you had to get around the back of houses. We upgraded the fleet with a small Komatsu slewing crane. We were happy with the performance of the first one, so we bought a 12t Tadano and now we have four, they’re such a versatile crane and ideal for the housing industry. They are pretty much flat out all the time,” Justin said. “We also service the marine industry in Perth and we’ve developed a good reputation for lifting boats, boat motors, masts, yachts and lifts like that. We have good relationships with all of the yacht clubs in the area. We’ve also done a lot of work for the government including Main Roads where we erect light poles on freeways which has kept us busy for a long time,” he said. The Stoddarts have steadily expanded their crane fleet which now includes three 15t Frannas, two 20t Frannas, a 25t
Dual lift of Rosco McGlashan’s Aussie Invader with an 8T BHB and 12T Franna. 22 / CAL March 2020
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