The transport arm of Jilesen Contractors complements both the core business of Jilesen Contractors Ltd (Earthmoving) and that of King Country Quarries. Duties for the trucks range from that of: Site Truck Working on roading construction site carting fill or material around the construction site. Some of the fill may be used again in the construction of the roads and often the fill needs to be removed and stockpiled somewhere close by. Our Trucks are also used on roading jobs as a water truck keeping the dust down or water is used in the process of binding and compaction of metal aggregate. We also cart aggregate from the quarry to the construction site. Farm Work On farms our trucks are used for carting fill to and from earthmoving projects, and in cartage of metal used for spreading on roads and tracks. River Protection Our trucks are involved in river protection projects, carting fill or unsuitable fill material, from large boulders for erosion protection and clearing the water channel taking of raw aggregate materials to the quarry for processing. General Delivery We do a lot of general delivery work of metal and landscaping products to Landscape yards from Taumarunui to North of Auckland, to Hawkes Bay, Manawatu, Whanganui and New Plymouth any many other stops...

Manunui Quarry The King Country Quarries quarry based at 242 Miro Street Manunui, handles a large range of quarry activities including rock breaking, crushing and preparation of general landscape supplies for the public. Pukehou Quarry King Country Quarries also run a quarry out at Pukehou, which is 12 km from Taumarunui on Pukehou Road, off State Highway 41.

King Country Quarries have a large range of landscaping products for your property, garden or commercial premises. Bark/wood products: These products will enhance the appearance of your gardens while helping to retain moisture and help in the suppression of weed. Bark nuggets. Red / brown in colour, sizing is at 50mm & looks very uniformed. Bark mulch. A shredded stringy looking bark with a small nugget & other bark fines blended together. It is brown in colour & retains moisture well. Red wood chips. Made from wood pellets that have been chipped down & then dyed a strong red. Black wood chips Limestone products: sourced from the king country area. They can be used in a variety of areas from driveways, footpaths & gardens. Limestone fines. A very finely crushed lime used to help bind or to cap off driveway, footpaths etc. Forms a very solid cover when rolled in wet. 6/16 lime chip. We carry 6-16mm graded product. Used pathways, garden fetches & for growing watercress hydroponically. 25mm lime Chip .We carry 25mm graded product. Used pathways, garden fetches & for growing watercress hydroponically. AP25 limestone. Is a product of many graded size stone blended together. This product will bind together excellent for the base of a garden paths ,driveways etc Lime based course Black sand White mortar sand Builders mix Soils/fill products: products that can be used for lawns or gardens. Crusher dust. A good cheap product for fill or for building, laying pavers etc. Pumice. Another cheap fill alternative Topsoil. Toping up or creating new lawn & garden areas. Compost. For use in flower beds or veggie gardens can be blend with the topsoil in these applications as well. Garden Mulch Our minimum purchase is 1 cubic metre or 1 tonne per load....

The Jilesen family has been a prominent feature in the Taumarunui area for many years. Tony senior and his wife Christine bought up their three young sons, Martien, Tony junior and Henry. After Tony senior purchased a D47U caterpillar dozer the boys spent many years breaking in the land in the Waimiha area with their father. The boys had attended Waimiha primary school before moving on to high school in Taumarunui until they reached the age of 16. After they had spent most of their childhood around dad’s machinery, Martien and Tony decided to move down to Wellington to work for John McJarrow, who at the time was a major earthworks contractor in the lower north island. Both boys gained extensive experience operating and understanding a variety of earthmoving machinery until 1982 when they both decided to move back to Waimiha and that is when Martien made his first venture into the competitive world of contracting when he purchased his first digger. It was a 20 tonne caterpillar 215. “I remember it very well” Martien said “it was delivered on the 8th of March 1984 and was the first 20 tonne digger in the king country area. It gave us a much wider capability along with dad and his dozer’s so we could start tendering for drainage and roading work in addition to ground clearing and development”. With most of the ground clearing work coming to an end, the digger filled an increasing gap in the type of work available to the family team. In 1989 Tony Jr and Martien decided to do their own thing and formed Jilesen contractors ltd and it was a move away from the Tony senior property in Waimiha to a piece of land Tony Jr had previously purchased in Ongarue. This new depot rapidly became too small for the new company so the boys purchased the ex shell depot in bell road in Taumarunui which is where Jilesen contractors ltd is still located today. By 1990 a number of earth working machines had been purchased along the way to cater for road and site construction and work obtained for the railways in the king country region. The problem of transporting machines from one site to another became serious so a policy decision was made to purchase their own transporter. A second hand 1980 R series Mack with a three-rows-of-4 MTE low loader was purchased in 1990 and an additional decision was made that year to start to purchase the company’s own trucks to service the contracting work. Jilesen contractors then purchased its second serious truck, a Mitsubishi FV 320, in 1992. A bulk body was manufactured and fitted by Cambridge welding and two years later the same company built a three axle trailer and the rig went to work as part of the...

King Country Quarries Limited was registered in 2007 by Tony and Martien Jilesen. The main quarry is based at Manunui. 5 minutes south of Taumarunui, and undertakes a large amount of rock breaking and production of a number of supplies such as: Landscape Supplies Pebbles & Stones Construction Products Jilesen contractors now own a farm with a quarry as part of the operation and the company purchased the Pukehou quarry in 2010 which had been owned by the Ruapehu District...

Jilesen Contractors move large quantities of earth such as re-aligning roads, State Highways and Council roads. We have a large amount of earthmoving equipment for any sized job, from small bob cat work to large 25-tonne earthmoving projects. The projects that Jilesen’s normally get involved with are: Clearing building sites Forming tracks on farmland and in the bush Setting out sites for large barns and sheds on rural properties Creating water storage ponds and dams and lakes for rural properties Installation of irrigation pipes and drainage and water reticulation Reclaiming land banks or stop banks Jilesen’s have a range of machines, large and small and our diggers range from 3-tonne to 30-tonne. Our bulldozers range from 13-tonne to 23-tonne and our trucks range from 1-tonne to...

Jilesen Contractors are called in on numerous occasions in the Ruapehu area to help with roading projects and repairs. The clients that request services from Jilesen’s are the local District Council, Transit New Zealand, other earthmoving companies and roading contractor companies that win the contract work in the Ruapehu District. Jilesen’s roading work consists of: Repairs, rehabilitation work on state highways and rural roads in the Ruapehu District Creation of new roads in rural and residential areas in the Ruapehu District Farm roading projects and bridge construction work Repairs & Rehabilitation The Ruapehu area is a large area to manage in terms of roading and our roads are subjected to severe temperature changes and lots of traffic throughout the year. The maintenance requirements of our roads is very demanding and a number of contractors are involved to keep these maintained throughout the year. Jilesen’s have a strong track record in the road maintenance and road repairing area and this keeps us very busy either as primary contractor or sub-contractor. We are happy to work on our roads in any shape or form. Creation of New Roads We are called upon on many occasions to undertake new road development in our area, from farm and country roads to residential roading. Due to the Jilesen group also owning King Country Quarries, we have access to a large supply of quarry metal for our roads, river banks repairs and many situations where hard metal is required. We also have a transport operation that we use to carry this metal to and from any roading...