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Spider crane lifts give garden visitors a summer sculpture treat

Contract lifting specialist Hird has used its Maeda spider cranes to help RHS Garden Wisley install two new exciting sculptures. A Maeda MC405 mini crane was deployed to remove artwork called Giant’s Chair to make way for a new sculpture. A Maeda MC285 mini crane was also used to install...

UK first for Hird as it adds all-electric Manitous to its fleet

Hird has become the first company in the UK to take delivery of the Manitou 200 ATJ E – the manufacturer’s first all-electric rough terrain articulating boom lift. The Manitou 200 AJT E Oxygen, as it is being called, has a maximum working height of 20m, a maximum outreach of...

Product of the Month – Oil&Steel Scorpion 2013 truck mounted platform

It can be a battle out there – and you may need an aerial platform that will keep you moving forward. Which is why our Product of the Month for May is the Oil&Steel Scorpion 2013 truck mount. One of the first skills a soldier learns is to skirmish. Dash,...

Crown jewel of mini cranes on lifting duty at Tower of London

A Hird Maeda mini crane has been called in to carry out a lift in one of the most famous historical buildings in the world – the Tower of London. The Maeda MC305 spider crane made an unusual sight as it was tracked past the iconic 1,000-year-old keep built by...

Mini crane glass manipulator up to overhead lift challenge

A Maeda spider crane fitted with a glass manipulator proved to be the right combination to carry out a highly challenging project to lift glass directly overhead into an atrium canopy. The space constraints of the lift site at new offices being built at Canal Reach, Kings Cross, in Central...

Sewage lifting team flush with success thanks to Maeda mini crane

A Maeda mini crane and a boom lift supplied by Hird have been used to support work on a sewage treatment tank by lifting materials into a giant concrete tank. The Maeda MC305 spider crane combined with a stone grab proved to be the ideal lifting combination to allow engineers...

Product of the Month – Tilting glass trolley

Here at Hird we like nothing better than finding simple solutions to potentially very challenging problems – which is why the Product of the Month for April is our tilting glass trolley. We have an excellent range of glazing trolleys for glass of all shapes, sizes and weights and, with...

Mini crane lift at quarry demonstrates Maeda advantage

The use of a Hird Maeda spider crane to lift machinery at a quarry has demonstrated the advantages it delivers in terms of operating in very constrained spaces. The boom of the Maeda MC405 crawler crane had to be guided through a gap with barely millimetres to spare to reach...