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Product of The Month – Hinowa 26.14 Performance IIIS Tracked Boom
Product of the Month • Spider Booms
There is a wise saying in the world of working at height, that we’ve made up especially for this article. It’s that a tracked spider boom lift comes in particularly handy when you face the 3Ts of working at height – Tough, Tight, and Tricky. We’ll explain in a moment....
Hird Takes Innovating Lifting Solutions to LiftEx 2017
Hird Group is taking some of its best and most innovative lifting equipment to LiftEx 2017 – including a Manitex Valla pick and carry crane and two models from the formidable Winlet glazing robot range. The company is joining 80 other exhibitors at the event at the International Centre Telford,...
Glazing robot with pad extensions impress glass installer
Winlet glazing robots can now be fitted with pad extensions – and the innovation is already impressing glass installers with its contribution to productivity and safety. Hird Group has worked with Winlet to develop the vacuum lifter pad extensions so clients can use the ground-breaking glazing robot with mullioned window...
Famous London landmark gets big lift from Hird
Two of Hird Group’s most impressive lifting machines have combined to support glass installation specialists working on one of London’s most impressive buildings. A Maeda MC815 spider crane and a Kappel 3500 glass vacuum lifter – known as Brutus – were used to lift into place six-metre long glass panels,...
Product of the Month – Woods Powr-Grip P11104
We do not like to just showcase the new and shiny lifting equipment on Product of the Month, which is why for November, we are talking about the Woods Powr-Grip P11104. That said, there is nothing old and fuddy duddy about this vacuum lifter. It is one of the most...
Hird mini crane lifts into place a Hall for Hull
Hull has an impressive new hall – thanks to one of Hird Group’s Valla 75 pick and carry cranes. But it is not a building anyone can live in. The Hall for Hull is a new art installation created to celebrate Hull 2017. A Hall for Hull has been commissioned...
Hird invests in ten of the best from Genie
Hird Group has invested in a new fleet of 50 Genie powered access machines across a wide range of types to expand and strengthen its access hire service. The Hull-based access, mini crane, glass lifting, and contract lifting specialist is taking delivery of 10 different models from the Genie powered...
Product of the Month – Valla 25EL Pick and Carry Crane
Pick and Carry Cranes • Product of the Month
Hird Group offers for hire so much excellent equipment that we’ve calculated it would take 1,545 years to showcase each item as a Product of the Month. Okay, we kind of made that figure up. But you get the point. So, why is our Product of the Month for October...