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Hird wastes no time overcoming tandem lift challenge

Hird Group has completed a challenging two-stage tandem lift to install two recycling machines, each one 15 metres long and weighing 32 tonnes. Working for Stadler UK Ltd, Hird has used large city cranes to install the trommels – plastic sorting machines – at a waste disposal site on the...

Tree-mendous! How did they get that tree in there?

If you want to plant a 1.3 tonne tree in a giant pot that is up a flight of steps, through three double doors, and across a courtyard that has a low weight load suspended floor who are you going to call? That was the challenge facing a leading corporate...

How did they get that car there? With a spider crane of course!

For many people visiting M&M’s World in Leicester Square it might well have been one of those “how did they do that?” moments. A 1,300kg Mini convertible sitting in a basement of a sweet shop, surrounded by display stands, with no obvious way of driving the vehicle into the confined...

Hird mini crane lifts into place a Hall for Hull

Hull has an impressive new hall – thanks to one of Hird Group’s Valla 75 pick and carry cranes. But it is not a building anyone can live in. The Hall for Hull is a new art installation created to celebrate Hull 2017. A Hall for Hull has been commissioned...

Hird Group power helps create a Solar Gate for Hull

Hird Group has helped lift Hull’s spectacular new Solar Gate into position The 10-metre high steel sculpture was lifting into place as the sun rose over Queens Gardens in Hull city centre. It is one of a series of developments being overseen by Hull City Council in a £25m plan...

Machinery moving expertise sows seed of success for cooker lift

A machinery moving team from Hird Group has carried out a tandem lift to install a new 72-tonne cooking vessel at a food processing plant. The contract lifting project has been completed for Cargill, at its site in Hull, East Yorkshire. A new rape seed cooking vessel was lifted into...

Hird carries out emergency crane lift at Royal College of Art

Hird was quick to respond with an emergency crane lift after a canopy was struck by a lorry at the Royal College of Art in London. The mini crane, glass lifting and powered access specialist had supported the installation of the canopy at the college in Kensington Gore, Kensington, West...

View from the cab – mobile crane driver Craig Jessop

Good communication is key to successful crane lifts, says experienced Hird crane driver Craig Jessop. Craig has been a crane operator for more than 12 years and is now the crane driver of Hird’s 50 tonne Grove GMK 3050 mobile crane. He has worked on numerous different crane lifting projects,...