The table is the most visible thing you buy and the least interesting decision you make. Almost any decent table will do the job for years.
The arm bolted to the side of it is what determines whether your day is calm or a wrestle, and it usually gets whatever was left in the budget.
Fixed, hydraulic, electric
Fixed height. Cheap, indestructible, fine if every dog you groom is small and you are always the one grooming. The problem arrives the moment you share the salon with someone six inches taller, or take on a labrador.
Hydraulic. A foot pedal and a ram. The middle option and the one most salons land on. No power needed, no cable, and it is fast enough. The pedal position is worth checking in person, because a badly placed one gets in the way of your feet all day.
Electric. A motor and a switch. What you are buying is the ability to bring the table right down, walk the dog on, and raise it. For a salon doing big dogs that is not a luxury, it is injury prevention, and it is why we would spend here before anywhere else on the list.
In Australia, Aeolus and Shernbao are the volume brands and both are carried by the main trade suppliers. They are not the only electric tables on the shelves any more, and the main ones are listed below.
If you are tall, check the maximum height before anything else. This is a recurring complaint in the Australian groomer groups and it is not a small one: plenty of tables top out below a comfortable working height for anyone much over average, so you spend the day hunched, and the taller tables that do exist are often wider than you want. Measure the height you actually want to work at, then buy to that number rather than to a brand.
Then check the number with the supplier, because the listings do not agree with each other. In September 2026 Oz Grooming World listed the Aeolus Low-Low at 27.5 to 106 centimetres, and The Dog Grooming Store listed the same model at 25 to 95. That is 11 centimetres of disagreement at exactly the end a tall groomer cares about. Ask for the maximum height of the unit they will actually ship.
Electric tables you can buy here
Prices as listed by Australian trade suppliers on 27 September 2026. Clipper World's prices include GST; the other suppliers do not say.
| Table | Price | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Lazor RX electric, foldable, with H frame | $528 | Clipper World |
| Aeolus Classic Z electric, medium | $749 to $769 | Oz Grooming World |
| Shernbao Classic Z electric, medium or large | $749 or $809 | Oz Grooming World |
| Groomtech Ace Mini | $759 | Oz Grooming World |
| Aeolus Low-Low Eco, H frame included | $850 | Oz Grooming World |
| Shernbao Deluxe electric, medium | $899 | Oz Grooming World |
| Pupkus Premium electric | $900 | Pupkus |
| Groomtech Elite | $1,049 | Oz Grooming World |
| Aeolus Low-Low, H frame included | $1,050, or $1,284 to $1,314 | Oz Grooming World, or The Dog Grooming Store |
| Shernbao Low-Low | $1,050 | Oz Grooming World |
| Pupkus Ultimate electric, stainless | $1,280 | Pupkus |
| Jirpet Hi Lo electric | $1,999 | The Dog Grooming Store, DGS Imports |
| Jirpet Atlas, with support arm | $2,999 | DGS Imports ($2,999.99 at The Dog Grooming Store) |
| Waggz electric, seven models | $2,103.89 to $3,669.38 | Clipper World |
Jirpet, Groomtech, Lazor RX, Waggz and Pupkus's own tables now sit beside Aeolus and Shernbao. The Dog Grooming Store lists Jirpet's Hi Lo at 36 to 102 centimetres, and both the Hi Lo and the Atlas carry a support arm on the table itself, which matters for the next section.
Hydraulic still starts lower. Oz Grooming World lists Aeolus's Deluxe Hydraulic at $809 for a medium and Shernbao's, with an H frame, from $889.
Now the arm
A cheap arm flexes. You will notice it the first time a dog leans, because the post bows and the dog wins.
What to look for: a post with real wall thickness rather than thin tube, a clamp that grips the table edge across a wide face instead of a single point, and a height adjustment that locks without needing a spanner.
As a price guide, Clipper World sells Lazor RX's H frame arm with two clamps for $113.40 including GST, and Oz Grooming World lists Aeolus's arm on its own at $53. Several electric tables, the Aeolus Low-Low among them, come with an H frame in the box, so check before you buy one separately.
Get a double arm if you do any dog that objects to having its back end handled. Two points of support turns a fight into a shrug, and it is safer for the dog than one loop and your forearm.
On loops: keep several, and replace them when they fray. A nylon noose is $10.80 at Oz Grooming World, and it is the last thing between a dog and the floor. For big dogs, Aeolus makes a belly strap that supports the back end, listed at $40.90.
The ramp is the real safety item
The most common serious injury in this trade is not a bite. It is a back, and it happens lifting a big dog on and off a table, several times a day, for years.
A ramp fixes it. So does an electric table brought to the floor. Doing neither and relying on being strong works until it does not, and the day it stops working you are out for weeks.
Grooming-table ramps are hard to buy here, though. None of the six Australian trade suppliers we check listed one in September 2026, which is one more reason the money goes on an electric table.
If you employ anyone, this is squarely inside your duty as a business, not a personal preference.
Surface and the small stuff
The rubber matting on a table top is a consumable. It hardens, it glazes, and it stops gripping, at which point dogs start scrabbling and you start bracing them with your hip. Check whether replacement matting is available for the model you buy. On some it is, on plenty it is not. Generic mats are easy to get: Oz Grooming World sells a 120 by 60 centimetre one for $77. Measure your table top first, because generic means it was not made for your table.
Keep a hex key taped inside the leg. Table arms loosen, always at the wrong moment.
What we would not buy
We would not buy a folding portable table as a salon's main table. They are excellent for shows, home visits and a spare. As the table you use forty hours a week, the wobble will wear you down.
We would not buy an electric table without checking what happens in a power cut, because some will not lower manually and you do not want to find that out with a dog on it.
And we would not buy a table by weight rating alone. A table rated to 100 kilograms that flexes at 30 is a worse table than one rated to 60 that does not move.
What the internet gets wrong here
Two brands dominate American grooming discussion and both need an availability check before you get attached. Ask an Australian supplier what they stock and what they can service. A table is heavy freight, and a warranty claim that requires shipping it overseas is not a warranty.
An electric table adds the motor to that problem. American tables are built for American mains: one common US electric table is listed at 110 to 120 volts, where the Aeolus tables stocked here list 220 to 240. Energy Safe Victoria's advice on buying electrical equipment online is to avoid an overseas model sold with a non-compliant plug or an adaptor, because it may not suit 240 volts and may fail unsafely. Under the national electrical safety scheme, in-scope equipment sold here must come from a registered Australian supplier and carry the Regulatory Compliance Mark, and Queensland's guidance says that holds even when the maker markets it for commercial use. You can check a model on the national register before you buy.
Then the warranty. Oz Grooming World, the Australian warranty agent for Aeolus and Shernbao, gives one year on tables bought through it or its authorised channels, cut to six months when the table goes into a mobile grooming station, and damage from the wrong voltage is excluded. A table you imported yourself has none of that cover, and an Aeolus Low-Low ships at 60 kilograms.
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Sources. Tables, arms, loops, mats and prices from the listings of Oz Grooming World, The Dog Grooming Store, DGS Imports, Pupkus and Clipper World, checked on 27 September 2026, including Oz Grooming World's warranty policy and delivery terms. Energy Safe Victoria, buying electrical equipment online. Business Queensland, in-scope electrical equipment. The Electrical Regulatory Authorities Council's national register.