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Hird Product of The Month – Genie GS-4047 Electric Scissor Lift
If you need to get up high to work but want to flexibility of using a scissor lift that is both compact and highly manoeuvrable, we suggest you select the Genie GS-4047 from our scissor lift hire fleet. We’re featuring this powered access platform as our Product of The Month...
8-point vacuum lifter test gives Hird customers performance and safety assurance
Vacuum lifters hired from Hird perform vital and exacting glass lifting tasks. Our clients also, quite rightly, expect them to give reliable service. That is why, every time they are hired and brought back to our depots from a lifting project, they undergo our 8-point vacuum lifter testing proceedure. One...
Virgin Atlantic heralds new era in aircraft maintenance with Valla mini crane
Virgin Atlantic Airways says it is bringing lifting and crane use for aircraft maintenance into the 21st Century with a unique Valla mini crane supplied by Hird. The airline says the acquisition of the Valla 1725 48ES 22-tonne DC electric mini crane, via specialist equipment supplier Rushlift, significantly improves its...
Product of The Month – DSZ3 Slimline vacuum lifter
Product of The Month for November is our new DSZ3 Slimline vacuum lifter – an innovative piece of equipment that is compact, but has an impressive lifting capacity. The DSZ3 Slimline, supplied by Kappel, has the latest design features that meet current trends in glass installation, including the increasing use...
Hird selected as finalist in Construction News Specialists Awards 2016
Hird has been named as a finalist in the Construction News Specialists Awards 2016. The company has been selected in the Equipment Supplier of the Year category of the prestigious business awards, based on a submission about the development of its glass lifting service over the last 12 months. Hird...
Oktopus glass manipulator goes to Greenwich
A Hird glass lifting team has been supporting contractors refurbishing an office building in Greenwich, South East London, with a Wirth Oktopus GL-CC777600 glass manipulator. Used in conjunction with a Maeda mini crane, the Oktopus is excellent for removing installing glazing panels, especially where space is confined, or obstacles need...
Demand for super-heavy vacuum lifters driven by a love affair with glass and concerns about security
Demand for Hird’s largest glass vacuum lifters is being driven by architects’ continued love affair with glass and a more practical concern – the need to make modern buildings safe and secure. Hird is a UK leader in the glass lifter hire industry in the supply of what it calls...
Product of the Month – Oktopus manipulator
Glass vacuum lifter technology is having to respond to the fact that, with modern building designs, removing and installing glazing panels is increasingly challenging. That’s why the Wirth Oktopus GL-CC777600 glass manipulator, which has a maximum lifting capacity of 600kg, is now available in the Hird glass lifter hire fleet....