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Spider crane with searcher hook gets the load up and under

Every building has its nooks and crannies and hard to reach places – even modern Olympic swimming centres. That is why mini cranes that can be fitted with searcher hooks are sometimes essential tools in the glass lifting armoury. In this case, a new entrance was being installed at the...

Product of the Month – Maeda MC285-3 mini crane

If you are concerned about the time you spend with your head in digital screens, first an apology. Because, if you operate the Maeda MC285-3 mini crane, your screen time is going to go up. The difference is, this screen time is always productive. That’s because a key feature of...

Where there’s muck there’s a Maeda mini crane

A Hird Maeda mini crane has proven to be the perfect lifting equipment for helping turning cow poo into biogas. The Maeda MC305 tracked spider crane moo-oved pipe work and machinery into place during construction of a methane plant at a dairy farm near Telford in Shropshire. Extracting methane gas...

Mini crane lift allows tourists to ‘boulder-ly go’ up giant rock

Thousands of tourists can take steps to enjoy one of the Lake District’s most popular – and most mysterious – attractions thanks to the skills of the Hird contract lifting team. Hird has assisted architectural and sculptural metalworkers CB Arts to install a new ladder on the Bowder Stone, a...

Tracked spider crane ideal ingredient in food factory lift

A tracked spider crane hired from Hird has proved it has all the ingredients needed to work in a highly confined space inside a food factory. The Maeda MC285 mini crane was needed to lift insulation boards into place as part of a food production area reconfiguration project. Members of...

Thousands of windows + one mini crane = tallest skyscraper

It is the tallest skyscraper in the City of London, the second tallest building in Western Europe, and every window was installed using a mini crane supplied by Hird. 22 Bishopsgate has 62 storeys and is 278 metres, or 912 feet, tall. It could eventually be home to 12,000 workers...

Restricted space no problem for spider crane at student flats

A Maeda spider crane provided by Hird has been used to install glazing in one of the last blocks in a major student accommodation development in Newcastle upon Tyne. The Maeda MC405 mini spider crane was combined with a Woods Powr-Grip MRT4 vacuum lifter to carry out the glass installation...

Spider crane helps futuristic farmers go up in the world

A tracked spider crane supplied by Hird has been used to help develop the farm of the future. The Maeda MC405 mini crane was one of the only cranes in the UK compact enough to be operated inside the high-tech hydroponic centre. The spider crane was needed to lift and...