The Henchman family

I am very grateful that in this last rather interesting year since we published our 2008 brochure, so many have taken a discretionary decision to buy Henchman products.

Or perhaps it is not discretionary: your safety when working at height cutting hedges or pruning wisteria on your house walls just has to be taken seriously. Since we pioneered the concept 15 years ago, over 20,000 Henchman safe work platforms have been put to use.

And discretion is less of an option in these days of re-cycling. Henchman Shredders and Compost Tumblers are more in demand then ever to return garden waste to the soil in nutrient rich form.

Anyone whose back has experienced the difference between a Henchman two wheeled barrow and the old single wheel two handle barrow, knows there is no discretionary option!

The company

Our company - joint owned by family and staff - has moved on in the 15 years since my father first used my GCSE woodwork project - a hedge cutting platform - to cut his hedges.  I scraped a pass and the hedges got cut quicker and with out a repeat of the ladder diving trick the old boy pulled the year before.

Having discovered there was no such thing as a safe hedge cutting platform in the market, real engineers began the hard graft of designing a product that worked as perfectly as possible.  Even this year we continue to improve and add to the range to suit varying applications and customer requirements.

The name ‘Henchman’ has become pretty well known. We have changed our company name from Haygate to Henchman Limited in 2008, in order to embrace all areas where our product solutions can help you in the garden and home. Same company – same people!

We remain a small family company, and even with our combined experience of over 40 years in supplying carefully designed product solutions to householders and professionals, we continue to learn important lessons in how to serve you better.  Please keep your helpful feedback coming in. 

We are personally very excited that our product range is naturally growing into interesting fields such as rain water harvesting and recycling.  We're not generally a politcally minded bunch, preferring more action and less talk, but it is engaging to be involved in fields of interest that are of present and future relevance in the bigger pitcure.

We don't compromise on quality­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Over 75% of our products are manufactured and assembled in the UK.

All Henchman platforms are manufactured in the UK by a company registered to ISO 9001-2000.

All aluminium Hi-Steps are designed to BS EN 131 guidelines.

All Henchman platforms conform to GPSR 2005 and WAHR 2005.

Henchman Hi-Step voted: Best Garden Product at National Gardening Awards.

All Shredder Chippers are manufactured in Europe and comply with strict European CE Regulations.

All ComposTumblers are the world standard and are manufactured in the USA.

All Henchman Barrow Trailers are manufactured in the UK by companies registered to ISO 9001-2000.

The Henchman team has over 40 years combined experience with which to help you.

Patents granted: 2299313 and 2412899

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