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Lifting focus – Kappel glass vacuum lifters
Glass has moved rapidly from being a product to let you see through to being a prime material we construct buildings with. Structural glass is being used to create the integral strength of the places where we live and work. As a result, Hird Group must stay at the cutting...
Product of the Month – Genie GS-2669 RT
Powered Access • Product of the Month
Genie has no doubt that its GS-2669 RT is a beefy character – a scissor lift’s scissor lift. Because in its marketing blurb Genie states that this is the scissor lift that allows you to “Dominate the Jobsite”. Wow. No wonder Hird Group has invested in such an impressive piece...
Hird lifting power loads wind turbine support vessel
A mobile crane supplied by Hird Group has been used to load storage containers onto a new service operations vessel (SOV) being used to support a giant wind farm in the North Sea. Port operations specialist Arthur Smith commissioned Hird’s Grove GMK 4100L crane, with a maximum safe working load...
Hird boosts delivery fleet for faster and safer service
It is not just the quality of the cranes, glass lifters, and powered access machines that Hird Group delivers that counts – it is the quality of the vehicles used to deliver them. Hird has invested in two new delivery vehicles which help make delivery of its equipment more efficient,...
Valla mini crane drops in to support Underground extension
Hird News • Mini Cranes • Pick and Carry Cranes
A Valla mini crane has been dropped 20 metres down a shaft to support construction of the latest extension of the London Underground. The Manitex Valla 250E pick and carry crane, the latest addition to Hird’s small crane fleet, is being used to carry and install precast concrete sections in...
Product of the Month – Maeda MC405 Tracked Spider Crane
Mini Cranes • Product of the Month
Making the most productive use of lifting equipment is key to the success of modern construction projects, which is right where our Product of the Month for March, the Maeda MC405 comes in. Modern construction methods, where teams need to safely and efficiently carry out different tasks within a limited...
A world-leading place to live needs a world-leading glazing robot
It’s not Skyfall, but it’s got a Sky Pool – the Embassy Gardens development in London has a bit of James Bond about it, so why should it not be built by a robot? The James Bond feel comes from the fact that the 2,000 homes that make up Embassy...
Severe weather – important advice about vacuum lifters
As severe weather continues to be a problem across large parts of the UK, Hird Group is issuing urgent advice on the use of vacuum lifters in extremely cold conditions. Hird advises that vacuum lifters should not be operated in temperatures below zero degrees Centigrade. John Wilding, Hird Director, said:...