Contract Lifting
Hird’s can-do spirit aids brewery labelling machine lift
Contract Lifting • Machine Moving
A Hird machinery moving team has used a mobile crane and two pick and carry cranes to move a large labelling machine into place in the packaging area of one of the UK’s biggest breweries. The lift and move project was completed over two days – though this was only...
Anatomy of a counterbalance lifting beam
Architects are continuously pushing back the boundaries of what is possible in building design. And construction contractors are always looking for ways to build that are safer, more productive and more sustainable. Counterbalance lifting beams were invented, and are being developed at pace, to accommodate these two driving forces. It...
Hird completes a world’s first lift with Maeda’s latest crane
Contract Lifting • Mini Cranes
It was crane number K0001 and Hird became the first company in the world to carry out a lift with the new MK3053C ECO – Maeda’s first knuckle boom spider crane. The battery electric crane has taken its place in a new generation of mini cranes that combine game-changing lifting...
Mobile crane team backs digester membrane installation
A Hird contract lifting team has used the company’s 100t mobile crane to help a client replace a defective gas holding membrane at its anaerobic digestion plant. The Grove GMK400L mobile crane lifted a ruptured membrane from the roof of a gas holding tank, then supported the client’s installation team...
Crane lift extracts air cleaning plant at wood mill
A machinery lifting team from Hird has used two mobile cranes to remove an extraction unit weighing 15 tonnes from the roof of a wood processing plant. The dimensions of the extractor, which was 15m long, meant the main lift had to be carried out with lifting tackle incorporating seven...
Sweet success for complex machinery lift at sugar factory
Contract Lifting • Machine Moving
Hird has completed a complex contract lift at one of the UK’s largest sugar refineries to replace machinery seven floors up inside a production room. A 100-tonne mobile crane was used to lift out a conical process vessel while a 60-tonne crane lifted a man basket so a slinger could...
Historical dock crane gets restoration lift from Hird
Hird mobile crane and powered access expertise is supporting a project to dismantle and restore a historical 18-tonne dock crane. The last remaining Scotch derrick crane at the former North End Shipyard in Hull, East Yorkshire, is being dismantled ready to be put on show as a tourist attraction. Hird...
Ocean-going boat takes to the skies with crane lift launch
Hird expertise and a 500t crane has given a new boat the lift it needed to begin a life on the ocean waves. The 55t brand new trawler yacht was launched by being lifted from the quayside at the Alexandra Dock in Hull, East Yorkshire. It may look like a...