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Raise a glass to perfect brewery tandem crane lift
Contract Lifting • Pick and Carry Cranes
A lifting team from Hird has installed three tanks at a new brewery in Kent by carrying out tandem lifts with Valla pick and carry cranes. The machinery moving project was completed in just one day at the brewery being built in the centre of Ashford. A Valla 120E mini...
Full steam ahead with steel erection thanks to Maeda mini crane
Contract Lifting • Mini Cranes
A Maeda mini crane on hire from Hird is making light work of steel erection during the redevelopment of Newcastle’s famous city pool and Turkish baths. The Maeda MC285 CRM-2 spider crane was needed because the steels were being put in above a light load bearing floor above the swimming...
Crane and powered access lift for biomass energy plant
Contract Lifting • Machine Moving
Crane, powered access and glass lifting specialist Hird is providing a range of lifting expertise at a biomass plant in East Yorkshire. Contractors working at the wood chip and biomass waste burning power station have been using Hird’s Grove GMK 4100L mobile crane to carry out a series of lifts...
Product of the Month – UNIC URW-295 spider crane
Mini Cranes • Product of the Month
If there was a special forces regiment made up only of spider cranes – stay with us – what spider crane would definitely be featured? Most experts agree that many Special Air Service soldiers do not look much different to other fit men. It is when they are asked to...
Hird lifts in hope – Knife Angel arrives in Hull
Community • Contract Lifting • Crane Hire
A giant sculpture made from confiscated knife and sword blades has been lifted into position in a Hull park as part of a campaign to deter knife-crime in the city. Hird’s 50-tonne Grove mobile crane was used to position the 27-feet-tall Knife Angel on a specially-constructed plinth in Queens Gardens,...
Vacuum lifter warning for freezing weather
Glass Lifting • Glazing Robots • Hird News • Vacuum Glass Lifters
Current UK weather conditions have led to an urgent warning from Hird Group on the use of vacuum lifters. Vacuum lifters should not be operated in temperatures below zero degrees Celsius or when it is snowing. Hird Director John Wilding said: “Vacuum lifting is a proven and very safe process,...
Hird lifter wins healthy respect at drug HQ roof refit
A vacuum lifter supplied by Hird has been used to return a glass roof at the HQ of a global pharmaceutical company to rude health. A client has used the Kappel DSZ2 vacuum lifter to replace glazing on the main roof at the site in the South East of England....
Product of the Month – Genie Z45/25 articulating boom
Powered Access • Product of the Month
As the saying goes, it takes one to know one. Which may be why our customers just love our first Product of the Month for 2019 – the Genie Z45/25 aerial boom. Our customers are busy people. They need to get a lot done in a short space of time,...