Hey festival organizers and technicians: it’s probably not your first time at the rodeo in organizing a festival, right? But are you renting the best equipment and machines for your festival setup? Perhaps it’s time to pimp-your-process and bring your organization to another level? This article will tell you the best equipment that exists on the market today for your festival build-up, and how to save considerable time and money in renting it.
Festival planning: no simple task
Building up an outdoor venue requires a lot of physical power: stage building and pitching tents, finding mobile offices and dressing rooms for staff and performers, getting light and sound systems working, bringing in enough on-site toilets for tens to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of patrons. There’s a lot to consider to make sure that everything is ready to go on opening day. And there’s an easy way to make this all happen in one place, but we’ll get to that later. First let’s take a look at the best equipment and machines on the market for building up your festival.
The best equipment for organizing a festival
Category 1: Stage building and building up other structures
You are an expert in stagecraft and stage technology. Do you also know the best construction equipment for building them up?
TELEHANDLERS
Perhaps the best multi-use piece of construction and certainly the most underutilized. You can use telehandlers for just about anything: for stage building, transporting heavy loads, or setting up container offices and dressing rooms. Telehandlers are extremely versatile and their compatibility with a wide range of attachments makes them capable of performing the same work as forklifts, cranes, aerial platforms, and more.
Articulating boom lifts and scissor lifts make working at heights both possible and safe. This makes them perfect for stage building, erecting light and sound towers, grandstands, camera structures, and platforms.
Category 2: Load transport
WHEEL LOADERS
For heavy lifting and transport, wheel loaders are top notch for prepping terrain for campgrounds, parking lots, beaches (whether grooming real beaches or creating artificial beaches), or whatever you have in store for your festival attendees.
Where normal forklifts fail to reach, rough terrain forklifts are the boss. These machines operate best on rough terrain: uneven ground, grass, gravel, and in any type of weather. They are also great for lifting or when stacking containers.
Category 3: Rentals for creating temporary structures
CONTAINERS
The cornerstone to remote festival planning and operations, from air-conditioned dressing rooms and offices to full-fledged restrooms. Containers are the best way to provide sanitary and indoor environments solutions to festival staff and performers.
Category 4: Rentals for providing electricity
GENERATORS
In the middle of a field and need some electrical power? Generators come in a range of power capacities to get whatever size of remote setup you have up and running.
Why rent your festival equipment with rentmas?
With thousands of equipment options and a massive partner network, rentmas has all the equipment you need for organizing a festival. That means renting everything in a single place – no need to rely on a long list of contacts for your construction machines, generators, containers, and bathrooms – you’ll find it all on the rentmas platform.
Our relationships with our partners and long-standing industry experience provides us with a wide range of suppliers, helping us find the most suited equipment for your needs directly in your area. That means you can even get next-day delivery on your equipment rentals.
And it gets better. rentmas does all the organization and office work for you. You provide a list of what you need, and rentmas will come back to you within 24 hours with an offer. Paperwork, rental insurance, and transport are all organized by rentmas, so you can dedicate your resources to the more immediate needs of planning your festival.
rentmas provides its clients with competitively-price equipment rentals that can be managed entirely online. All rentals include a wide range of additional features that make for a seamlessly smooth experience and can be managed directly from your online dashboard. From online rental extension requests to transport organization, you have the flexibility and control to make sure your rentals go exactly how you need them to go.
Advantages of organizing a festival with rentmas equipment
- Easy renting – no more phone calls needed. Use the online platform to easily place, track and handle your orders at any time and from any device.
- As many machines as you need, wherever you need them – our massive equipment supplier network lets you rent all the equipment for each of your festival locations and get next-day delivery.
- We do absolutely everything else – From drop off to pick up, and all the way to invoicing, we take care of all the logistics and paperwork. The rental coordinator team at rentmas provides you with full-service project management support.
With rentmas at the reigns of your equipment rentals, festival planning will take on a whole new sense of success. Ready to seize the day? Click the button below:
