Five in five – the depot that’s central to access and lifting service
There are hire service depots that supply one type of machinery and one service – then there is Hird’s Central Depot!
Serving large parts of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the East Midlands, it delivers an extraordinary range of hire services, backed by equally impressive expertise.
Customers in Rotherham, Sheffield, Barnsley, Wakefield, Leeds, Scunthorpe, Mansfield, Chesterfield, and Lincoln all rely on the Hird Central depot for access platform, crane and glass lifter hire support.
This article breaks down the depot’s service range into five specialist areas, with five types of hire equipment and services described in each one.
First, though, what is it that customers like about the service offer at the Hird Central Depot, located in Doncaster, South Yorkshire?
Let’s keep it simple, with five clear service strengths:
Service range
– We’ve just mentioned it, the range of the service portfolio, from cherry picker hire to curved glass lifter hire, and on to crawler crane hire is impressive. If you need it, the Hird Central Depot is likely to have it.Expertise
– you can’t offer this range of equipment, without knowing what you are doing. The team at Hird Central are recognised leaders in their fields.Reliable quality
– The Hird Central hire fleet has the most modern, most effective equipment, maintained to the highest safety standards in its own workshops, available at competitive hire prices.Consistent service
– If you need a piece of equipment tomorrow, it will arrive tomorrow. If you want it off site the following day, it’s gone.Friendly service
– Friendliness goes a long way and sits hand-in-hand with expertise. We like to help, it makes us happy, and it makes our customers happy.
Five in five – access hire
Access platform hire has been a core service available from Hird for many years. We have one of the largest fleets of modern MEWPs in the UK, with a good chunk of the stock based at the Central Depot in Doncaster.
That includes offering the latest and most capable all-electric cherry pickers and scissor lifts that deliver more eco-friendly and, often, more capable height working service.
Also, Hird holds IPAF Rental+ accreditation, which means our customers can be confident we give them the best quality service at every stage of the MEWP rental process.
- Including diesel booms like the 12.5m Genie Z34/22 and 25.8m Genie Z80/60. Or select the Genie Z60FE Hybrid, combining the best of electric and diesel technology in one MEWP.
- Go for the diesel rough terrain scissors like the 14.1m Genie GS-4069 RT, or electric slab scissors such as the 9.9m GS-2632 or stick with rough terrain, with the 22m electric Dingli JCPT2223DC.
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Personnel lifts
- Working from ladders is either less safe or less productive, so come to Hird Central to hire the 5.2m Boss X3X or 10.1m JLG T10 personnel lifts, with others to choose from.
- If you need to work in a tight space or over low load-bearing ground, Hird Central has spider booms with working heights from 17m to 25.7m, including the 20.7m Oil&Steel Octoplus 21.
- If mobility is a must, the Hird hire team in South Yorkshire can supply an Oil&Steel Scorpion 2013, a telescopic 19.9m lift, or the Oil&Steel Snake 2010H Plus, an articulating 20m lift.
Five in five – Crane lifting
Hird is one of the UK’s leading mini crane experts, whether that be pick and carry cranes or spider cranes. We are the UK and Ireland distributers for Valla pick and carry cranes, and operate the country’s largest hire fleet of Maeda spider cranes.
All this expertise and experience informs the mini crane hire service delivered from the Hird Central Depot, with experienced lift specialists on hand to advise customers or directly support their lift projects.
- Our Maeda spider cranes at Hird Central are ideal for lifting in constrained spaces and across difficult ground, like the all-electric 2.98t Maeda MK3053C ECO knuckle boom crane.
- Hird has the largest hire fleet of Valla pick and carry cranes in the UK, including hugely impressive Valla V Series cranes, like the Valla V130RX, which can extend its chassis to increase lifting duties in tight spaces.
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Crawler cranes
- If mobility across difficult ground is what you need, select the Maeda CC985S-1 crawler crane, with a 4.9t SWL and a 16.5m working height.
- These are light-weight, highly-versatile micro-cranes that provide simple yet powerful lifting solutions, like the Weinold MFC750K, with its two configurations to lift 500kg or 750kg.
- If it’s big lifts you want to carry out, call the Hird Central Depot to hire one of Hird’s mobile cranes, like the 100t Grove GMK4100L, or the 60t Liebherr LMT1060 3.1.
Five in five – Glass lifting
Hird is at the forefront of glass lifting technologies. Whether that involves designing specifications for new, ground-breaking glass vacuum lifters, or as the UK and Ireland distributor for Winlet glazing robots.
It means Hird Central Depot’s service offer customers can be confident they will be supplied with the most capable and safest glass lifting equipment, backed by advice that is second to none in the lifting industry.
- Hird has one of the largest glass vacuum lifter hire fleets in the UK, with capacities from 135kg for the Wood’s Powr-Grip MT2 to the mighty Kappel Hydraulica 8000 that can lift 8t.
- Winlet glazing robots from the Hird Central depot are transforming the ease and safety of glass installation. Like the Winlet 575, which can lift, carry and install, with precision, panels weighing 575kg.
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Glazing manipulators
- These attachments can be combined with our cranes to support precision glass installation, like the Kappel lifter with a 500kg capacity that can be attached to a Wienold counterbalance floor crane.
- Not all glass fitting jobs are straight-edged. It’s why you can hire seven different curved and irregular glass vacuum lifters from Hird Central, like the Hydraulica 1200 Curved, with its 1200kg capacity.
- The unsung heroes of glass lifting, essential but often overlooked. We have glass trolleys of all types, such as the Tilting Glass Trolley and Rough Terrain Trolley. You will never get stuck with Hird Central.
Five in five – Lifting accessories
Big lifting and access machines are great. But having the right accessories immediately to hand is also essential for a lifting project to be completed safely and successfully.
The Hird Central Depot has all the key equipment needed to accomplish lifting tasks – from personal safety kit to devices that make lifting easier, smoother and more productive.
- Hird’s Central Depot helps customers lift loads more safely with a range of high quality material hoists with capacities up to 10t. They include a 500kg portable gantry lift for lifting loads up to a height of 25 metres.
- Moving materials safety and effectively is more important than ever. Hird’s Central Depot offers Winlet ErgoMover battery electric trolleys and innovative Aconda tracked carriers.
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Forklift attachments
- Flexibility is essential in lifting. Hird delivers a variety of fork lift attachments, including an angled crane attachment for lifting loads up to 1500kg in hard-to-reach places.
- Hird does not just offer large equipment. Our Central Depot supplies glass lifting straps, safety harnesses and lanyards, inertia reels, secondary safety straps, sling and lifting chains.
- Outrigger pads are essential for crane lifting and working from access platforms. Hird offers a range of high-strength plastic outrigger pads and timber billets and sleepers that fit the task.
Five in five – Industrial training
Having the right skills is essential to complete lifting, working at height and glass lifting tasks in an efficient and compliant way. Hird’s Central Depot gives our customers those skills.
Whether you want to attend our high-quality training centre in Doncaster, or require our training instructors to visit your premises or worksite, we are ready to make sure your teams can work safely and productively.
- Hird has been providing high quality industrial training for many years. For example, our Central Depot is an IPAF-approved training centre that delivers the full rang of IPAF courses, including IPAF Competent Assessed Person.
- It should be no wonder that one of the UK’s leading crane service companies also delivers accredited crane operating courses, including CPCS A61 Appointed Person and CPCS A66, for spider cranes and mobile compact cranes.
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LEEA courses
- The Hird Central Depot delivers a range of LEEA courses, including the LEEA Vacuum Robot course, first designed by Hird and now accredited by LEEA.
- Hird Central is a key centre for RTITTB courses, including for reach trucks, fork lifts, pallet trucks, order pickers, and below the hook vacuum lifters.
- Whether you need training for low level access, towers for managers, towers for users, or a working at height essentials course, the Hird Central Depot in Doncaster will deliver it.
The range of Hird Central Depot’s service offer does not stop there. Hird is also one of the UK’s leading machinery moving specialists.
Our teams carry out the lifting and movement of single items of machinery or multiple units, supporting complex dismantling and installation procedures, working closely with client engineering partners.
Find out more
Talk to the Hird Central Depot team about how they can support your access platform hire, crane hire, glass lifting hire, lifting equipment hire, and industrial training needs.
Address: Hird Central Depot, Shaw Lane Industrial Estate, Ogden Road, Doncaster, DN2 4SQ.
Telephone: 01302 341659
Email: [email protected]