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Product of the Month – Valla 35D TRX

Think of a tracked vehicle and a lot of people will think of something huge and heavy, like a tank. Small and agile will not be first to mind for most. Which is one reason why Product of the Month for June is the Valla 35D TRX tracked pick and...

Hird wastes no time overcoming tandem lift challenge

Hird Group has completed a challenging two-stage tandem lift to install two recycling machines, each one 15 metres long and weighing 32 tonnes. Working for Stadler UK Ltd, Hird has used large city cranes to install the trommels – plastic sorting machines – at a waste disposal site on the...

Valla and Elebia take lifting productivity to the next level

Hird Group teamed up with global crane hook manufacturer Elebia at Vertikal Days 2018 to demonstrate how automatic hook technology and Valla compact cranes can be a perfect match. A Manitex Valla 22E pick and carry crane was fitted with an Elebia evo2 hook to show the additional flexibility and...

Product of the Month – Winlet 785 Glazing Robot

The Festival of Britain in 1951 was heralded as a “beacon of change”. So, it is perfectly apt that Winlet glazing robots supplied by Hird Group are working on the site of the famous festival to create innovative living space fit for the 21st Century. We have chosen the Winlet...

Tree-mendous! How did they get that tree in there?

If you want to plant a 1.3 tonne tree in a giant pot that is up a flight of steps, through three double doors, and across a courtyard that has a low weight load suspended floor who are you going to call? That was the challenge facing a leading corporate...

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

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...