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Hird answers DIY SOS call to help Grenfell community
Equipment supplied by Hird Ltd has been used to complete the most ambitious ever DIY SOS challenge on behalf of the community affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. Hird responded instantly to a call for help from the BBC DIY SOS team, and had mini cranes on site in 48...
Powered access and panto stars – it’s Christmas lights time!
Yorkshire powered access hire company Hird was called in to supply a cherry picker used to put up giant Christmas trees in the centre of Hull. A Genie S-65 diesel-powered boom from the Hird aerial platform hire fleet is being used to install the Christmas trees and festoon them with...
Hird’s glass lifting expertise airs on Channel 4
In July 2014, we brought you a sneak preview of how Hird helped a Yorkshire couple realised their dream of restoring a brick Pannal Water tower into a five-storey home. Their project was being filmed for Channel 4’s Restoration Man – George Clarke’s series helping to rescue neglected architectural treasures...
Restoration Man calls in Hird man to lift window at water tower
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Hird has been called in to help architect George Clarke – better known as The Restoration Man on Channel 4’s hit home development show – with one of his latest TV projects. He was helping turn a large disused water tower in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, into a luxury home, and...
Hird helps create a mini crane celebrity challenge on The One Show
One of Hird’s mini cranes has been seen by millions of viewers on the BBC One Show – with TV and radio celebrity Paul O’Grady at the controls lifting a ferry across the Mersey. The show’s producers asked Hird to help them give Paul a celebrity mini crane lifting challenge...