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New Hird floor crane delivers performance double
Hird is giving its materials lifting customers two new industry-leading mini floor cranes in one with the Wienold MFC750. It goes on show in the UK for the first time at the Executive Hire Show taking place at the Ricoh Arena, in Coventry, on Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 February...
Hird wins Business of the Year Award
Hird has won the Hull Daily Mail Business of the Year Award. The mini crane, powered access and glass lifting hire and sales business has been named Medium Business of the Year. The company, which is based in Hull, was presented with the award in front of 400 guests at...
Powered access and panto stars – it’s Christmas lights time!
Yorkshire powered access hire company Hird was called in to supply a cherry picker used to put up giant Christmas trees in the centre of Hull. A Genie S-65 diesel-powered boom from the Hird aerial platform hire fleet is being used to install the Christmas trees and festoon them with...
Product of the Month – Wienold MFC 750K and Ks
It’s not often that an industry-leading mini floor crane comes along – and then two come along at once. Literally. That’s because our new Wienold MFC 750K mini floor crane is also the Wienold MFC 750Ks mini floor crane. Bear with us. We can explain. This is our Product of...
New Maeda mini crane is a negative lift duty “game changer”
Hird has introduced a “game-changing” Maeda mini crane with an industry-leading ability to lift below the crane. The Maeda 285 spider crane can be fitted with an auxiliary winch delivering a negative lift duty of 900kg at 100 metres. The next most capable mini crane on the UK market can...
Vacuum lifters help protect homes with new glass flood wall
Vacuum lifters supplied by Hird have been used to lift into place hundreds of panels that create the UK’s longest glass flood wall. The glass lifters were used to construct the glass flood wall at the village of Paull, East Yorkshire, to protect it from high tides along the Humber...
6 ways Valla mini cranes can make your lifting project easier
Mini cranes are becoming increasingly popular to carry out lifts in a range of industrial environments in a process of change driven by modern manufacturing techniques. This keeps Hird’s Valla mini crane hire fleet in high demand. It also means we are always adding more mini cranes to the hire...
Product of the Month – Grove GMK 4100L 100 tonne crane
It may look like a bit of a lumbering monster, but our Grove GMK 4100L all terrain mobile crane is very nimble on its feet – well, actually, on its wheels. It’s the largest crane in the Hird crane hire fleet, and is one of the most flexible pieces of...