Product of the Month
Product of the Month – Oktopus Counterbalance Lifting Beams
Lifting technology has to develop hand in hand with the imagination of architects and the ingenuity of building design engineers. Our Oktopus counterbalance lifting beam range Hird’s Oktopus counterbalance lifting beam hire range has equipment with lifting capacities ranging from 900kg right up to a whopping 8000kg, with the capabilities...
Product of the Month - Dingli JCPT2212DC electric scissor lift
Moments when a contractor responds with skepticism to the idea of hiring an electric rough terrain scissor lift are getting fewer and further between. Times are changing, and rapidly. Our Hird Product of the Month for October, the Dingli JCPT2212DC scissor lift, is one of the reasons why. The reasons?...
Product of the Month – Genie Z60FE articulating cherry picker
If you have a piece of cake, it’s also nice to eat it, right? With our Product of the month for September, you can do just that – because it is the Genie Z60FE articulating all-terrain cherry picker. Electric aerial platforms are absolutely central to the future of working at...
Product of the Month – Wienold MRC751 counterbalance floor crane
Anyone who watched the Paris Olympics will see that the ability to turn on the spot it an essential skill in many sports. Gymnastics, BMX freestyle, canoeing and hammer throwing. They all require a good deal of twirling, as Bruce Forsyth once called it. Which is why our Product of...
Product of the Month – Winlet Curved Glass Adaptation Kit
Curves can be thrown at you and get ahead of you. They can also seduce you. In the world of glass lifting, they can also be a particularly tough challenge. That is why the Hird Product of the Month for July is the Winlet Curved Adaption Kit. Architects are throwing...
Product of the Month – Genie GR20 Runabout mast boom
Fall from ladder fatalities In one case, a company was fined £1.1m after a worker fell from a ladder and nearly bled to death. Experience shows that many of these kinds of ladder falls can be avoided by selecting a safer method for working at height. Compact and precise For...
May Product of the Month – Valla V46R pick and carry crane
All the cranes in Valla’s new V range of pick and carry cranes can do impressive things. But our Product of the Month for May, the Valla V46R, has a particularly neat trick. It can lift a load that is 28% heavier than the crane directly below it in the...
Product of the Month – Hird Service
Hird service expertise For us, that consistency starts with expertise. Hird has been hiring out mini cranes, access platforms, material moving equipment, and glass lifting equipment for a long time (Hird is no fly-by-night). It is a complicated and safety-critical business. Many of our clients value our expertise. In fact,...