Chico, California · Since 1976
Hamre Equipment sells, rents, and services container handlers, forklifts, wheel loaders, excavators, and trucks — and hauls, sources, and exports machines when the job calls for it.
Taylor heavy forklifts staged in the Hamre yard — factory lines Hamre has sold and serviced since 1989.
1976
Family Founded in Chico, California
50+ yrs
Taylor dealer legacy, as published by Hamre
Chico, CA
3930 Esplanade — sales, parts, and service on site
Export
Actively shipping equipment to the Americas and Africa
5 divisions
Sales, rentals, heavy haul, parts, and service
Live Inventory
Hamre maintains its current listings — photos, prices, hours, condition, and machine details — on the company’s dealer page, so what you see is what is actually on the yard. Inventory turns over; the listing page is always the current word.
Equipment Sales — (530) 427-0010
OEM Relationships
Hamre works through long-standing equipment and factory relationships to support machine acquisition, parts access, service, and lifecycle needs.
Taylor Machine Works
Authorized dealer · 50+ year relationship
LiuGong North America
Authorized dealer
Magni Telescopic Handlers
Authorized dealer
ASV Holdings
Authorized dealer
CMI Mulcher
Authorized dealer
FirstGreen Industries
Authorized dealer
Genie
Equipment line carried
Barko
Equipment line carried
Taylor Sudden Service
Factory parts and service network
Dealer Heritage
Hamre publishes a Taylor dealer relationship spanning more than five decades — big-capacity forklifts and container handlers built in Louisville, Mississippi, sold and serviced from Chico. That kind of tenure means the parts counter knows the machines, the shop has worked on every generation of mast and carriage, and factory support through Taylor Sudden Service is a phone call, not a mystery.
Milestone
Hamre Yard Service Center
Capabilities
01
New and used machines — from LiuGong wheel loaders to Taylor container handlers — with condition and hours documented on every listing.
02
Rental and lease terms sized to the project window — electric and diesel machines for seasonal peaks, single jobs, or rent-to-own paths.
03
Oversize machine transport — lowboys, permits, and freight coordination for moving equipment to the yard, the site, or the port.
04
Spare parts stocked for each equipment line Hamre carries, with a parts counter open 7:00 AM–4:00 PM and a direct parts-request pathway.
05
Shop and field service on the lines Hamre sells — masts, hydraulics, drivetrains — backed by factory relationships like Taylor Sudden Service.
Sourcing & Export — across every division
Hamre continuously searches for used machines for its customer base and actively exports equipment to the Americas and countries within Africa. TRACE certified since May 2016.
Start a Sourcing Request
Equipment & Applications
Container Handlers
Forklifts
Wheel Loaders & Scrapers
Excavators & Backhoes
Rock Trucks & Log Loaders
Trucks & Trailers
Attachments
Spare Parts
Working in:
Logistics
Logging
Surface Mining
Construction
Transportation
Infrastructure
Company
Lee Hamre founded and incorporated Hamre Equipment Co. in Chico, California in 1989. The company carries container handling equipment for logistics operations and heavy machines for logging, surface mining, construction, transportation, and infrastructure work.
Beyond the yard, Hamre continuously sources used machines against specific customer requirements and exports equipment to buyers across the Americas and countries within Africa. The company has held TRACE certification — the leading international anti-bribery due-diligence standard — since May 2016, a commitment to transparent cross-border equipment transactions.
“If you do not see what you need, call the sales office — the staff will do their best to locate the equipment.”
Lee Hamre, CEO —
On record
1989
Lee Hamre named CEO
May 2016
TRACE anti-bribery certification obtained
6 factory lines
Published authorized-dealer relationships
2 continents
Active exports to the Americas and Africa
Machines at Work
Equipment in operation
Container handlers, loaders, and forklifts on real jobs — Hamre’s published video library.
Service & product walkarounds
Machine demonstrations and service features — no autoplay, everything on demand.
Financing & Resources
Financing is arranged through independent third-party lenders Hamre lists as resources — terms and approval sit with each lender.
Sourcing & Export
Give the sales team the machine category, the capacity you need, an hours preference, the destination, and your timeline. Hamre searches its dealer network and the used market against those requirements — and handles export logistics when the machine ships overseas.
Or call the sales team— (530) 427-0010
Contact
Visit
Sales & Main Offices: 7:00 AM–5:00 PM PT
Parts & Service: 7:00 AM–4:00 PM