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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,...
Maeda spider crane proves its worth in power station lift
Contract Lifting • Mini Cranes
Vital maintenance work at a major power station could be completed quickly, safely and with least disruption with the deployment of a Maeda spider crane supplied by Hird. The power station called in mini crane hire and contract lifting specialist Hird when it needed to change a rooftop extractor fan....
Remote control helps make light work of lift at listed house
Contract Lifting • Mini Cranes
Digital remote control of a Maeda spider crane hired from Hird helped make sure stonework on a Grade II Listed house could be removed safely. A building contractor carrying out a major refurbishment would have selected a mobile crane for the work at the property near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. However,...
Product of the Month round-up – 2018
Shakespeare, cartoon characters, Joe 90, and Ian Botham – is there nothing we will not compare a Hird machine with to show how impressive they are? Well, no. We haven’t even mentioned the little tin aliens yet. Scroll through our Products of the Month to get an excellent flavour of...