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Product of the Month – Hydraulica 500 GRCS cladding lifter
Stone cladding remains a highly popular method for creating durable and attractive facades for modern buildings. Which is why our Product of the Month for September is the our new Kappel Hydraulica 500 GRCS stone and GRC vacuum lifter. The Hydraulica 500 GRCS is a key piece of equipment in...
Hird gives Humber Street Sesh a lift with cherry picker loan
When working at height meets live music in Hull – there you will find a Hird cherry picker. Hird was more than pleased to support the Humber Street Sesh, a well-established one day music festival attended by 15,000 people in the heart of the Hull Marina. The founder, Mike Page,...
Product of the Month – Righetti CL1-6 cladding lifter
Modern construction techniques allow buildings to go up FAST – which is why our Product of the Month for August is the Righetti CL1-6 cladding lifter. There is no better example of speed of construction than the building of giant sheds that are springing up along motorways all across the...
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...
Hird is first to take new 20m hybrid Genie stick booms
Hird has become the first powered access rental company in the UK to take delivery of the new Genie S-60 FE hybrid telescopic boom lift. The access platform, mini cranes and glass lifting rental company has taken the first two platforms available in the UK, supplied by Genie’s authorised distributor,...
Product of the Month – Winlet ErgoMover Manipulator
There is no such thing as a perfect solution in any industry. But our Product of the Month for July, the ErgoMover Manipulator, is definitely the right product, available at the right time. It is the Swiss Army Knife of material transport trolleys in that it delivers so many advantages...
Work site glazing robot training helps keep projects on track
There is a benefit of Winlet glazing robots not always mentioned. They are so compact there is more than enough space to hold accredited training sessions on many work sites. Hird knows all about the LEEA vacuum robot course, after all we designed and developed it – and being able...
Hird ‘privileged’ to give Falklands War commemoration a lift
A Hird mobile crane has been used to lift two helicopters into place for an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the ending of the Falklands conflict. Hird donated the use of the crane and lifting team to support the display in Queen’s Gardens in Hull, East Yorkshire, on...