Ned Gellie had a passion for earthmoving from a very young age playing in the sand pit. While completing his diesel mechanic apprenticeship, Ned gained employment on weekends with local earthmovers, and later worked all over Australia on some of the biggest projects at that time such as the Thomson Dam & Alcoa to gain experience.
In 1983 Ned & Wendy Gellie purchased their first piece of equipment, a Fiat Allis Bulldozer, and then a HITACHI EX200-1 Excavator. The relationship started with Hitachi distributor; Blackwood Hodge who became Marubeni Construction and Mining Equipment and then Hitachi Construction Machinery Australia in 1999. This was the beginning of Gellie’s Earthmoving and the continued Hitachi Construction Machinery Australia Pty Ltd (HCA) relationship.
Gellie’s Earthmoving is a family owned & operated business. In the early days Gellie’s main focus was on soil conservation & agriculture projects, also specialising in and supporting the construction and roads industry. Throughout the years they have also been extensively involved in windfarm construction and work all over Victoria on national railway infrastructure & maintenance projects.
Gellie’s have a wide range of equipment including Bulldozers, Excavators, Tractor & Scoop, Front End Loaders, Grader, Dump Truck, Tip Trucks, Side Tippers & Low Loaders. Gellie’s also have Hi Rail equipment, one of the machines being a Hitachi ZX170-3 rubber tyred excavator.
Gellie's is a leader in infrastructure & maintenance works
Today, Ned Gellie runs the business with his son Jake, together they lead a team of 12 full-time employees with some having worked for Gellie’s Earthmoving for more than 15 years.
From the very beginning, Ned has had a unique fondness and appreciation for Hitachi built excavators. “Hitachi is the only brand of excavators that we have purchased since starting the business, this is mainly due to their performance and reliability,” he says.
“The day-to-day running costs, fuel efficiency, cab layout and operator comfort are second to none. Our team of operators would refuse to operate with any other brand.”
The recent addition of 3 new Hitachi excavators including the ZX290LC-5, ZX85USB-5 and ZX55U-5A has taken the total number of machines to seven in their orange fleet.
Gellie’s Earthmoving has been a Hitachi customer for the last 40 years and credits HCA on their quality products, readily available parts and service coupled with a highly specialised support team working around the clock.
Ned credits his working relationship with HCA’s Victorian Sales Representative Greg Priestley and the local HCA branch, ‘due to their extensive understanding of the industry as well as the needs of Gellie’s Earthmoving business.’
HCA will continue to support Gellie’s Earthmoving and their business operations with reliable, world-class performing machinery and wish them the best with their upcoming railway projects.
For more information on Hitachi’s range of machinery products visit www.hcma.com.au/machinery or phone 1300 HITACHI to speak to our service team.
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From weekend servicing to ongoing after-sales support, it`s a partnership built on trust.
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Short and Sharp: How many people can fit in an EX8000 excavator bucket?
We put the question to the crowd at QME, and the guesses were coming in thick and fast! 😂
Think you can get it right? Watch the video and drop your guess in the comments! 👇
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We’re here at Elmore Field Days!
Come and see the Hitachi team at Stand 586 and get up close with a range of Hitachi machinery, including the ZX17U-5A, ZX55U-5A, ZX135US-7H and ZW160PL-7.
While you’re there, chat with the team and enter our on-stand competition for your chance to win a dual-branded bar fridge.
📍 Elmore Field Days – Stand 586
📅 6–8 October 2026
🔗 Find out more: www.elmorefielddays.com.au
See you soon! 👋
Hitachi Construction Machinery is becoming LANDCROS, and we`d like to show you what that means for your mine 👇
Visit us at IMARC 2026
📅 27–29 October 2026
📍 ICC Sydney | Stand T17
🎤 Featured Presentation: "Maintaining Control of YOUR Mine: The Battle Against Vendor Lock-in"
Eric Winsborrow, General Manager New Business Strategy
🕑 Wednesday 28 October, 2:15–2:35pm AEDT
Technology & Innovation stream
As LANDCROS, we`re becoming an Open Solutions provider, working in partnership with you and your existing infrastructure, equipment vendors, systems and preferred suppliers. Open, interoperable and customer-first, with no closed systems and no vendor lock-in.
Your mine. Your choice. See you at Stand T17!
#IMARC2026 #LANDCROS #HitachiConstructionMachinery #Mining #MiningTechnology #OpenSolutions #MiningInnovation
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From rock classics to country hits - what do you think the EX1200 would be listening to?
#Hitachi #LANDCROS #OrangeFamily 🍊 #EX1200 #QME2026
Reliability matters, so does the support behind your machine.
For CA Plumbing, keeping machines running means keeping projects moving. That`s why they`ve built a strong relationship with Hitachi | LANDCROS, leading by dependable machinery, responsive service and a team that understands their business.
From weekend servicing to ongoing after-sales support, it`s a partnership built on trust.
Hitachi | LANDCROS proven Japanese engineering for Australia
Built to Work. Supported Where You Work.
However it`s said, it`s still Japanese engineering.
Hitachi | LANDCROS
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#Hitachi #LANDCROS #OrangeFamily 🍊 #EX1200 #QME2026
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