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Machinery Moving – Hull, Yorkshire
Hird is looking after some of its customers’ logistics concerns by continuing to provide a first class machinery removal and machinery installation service. Hirds carries out factory re-locations – from single pieces of machinery through to whole production line re-locations. A number of industries continue to take advantage of Hird’s...
Hirds Mini Crane Hire Specialists
Hird provides a range of Mini Cranes for hire, including Pick and Carry Cranes and Static Spider Cranes. The Hird range of mini cranes offers an extensive selection of machines for lifting loads where space and access is restricted. Mini cranes are hired to a range of industries and provide...
The Access Link give Alan Hemmings a proper send-off
The Access Link, the UK grouping of independently owned regional rental companies, held its Autumn meeting this week as guests of Niftylift in Milton Keynes. The meeting was fully attended as members used the occasion to give Allan Hemmings, the retiring managing director of Hird, a proper ‘send-off’. Hemmings is...
Hirds continue to provide a wide range of operator training across the uk
Hird continues to provide a wide range of operator training courses to its customers across the UK. The powered access, glass handling and pick & carry crane hire specialists based in Hull, Yorkshire, can deliver training courses from its Northern, Central or Southern Depot. IPAF (Independent Powered Access Federation) 3a...
Hird supplies powered access to Shard Project in London
Last year we told you that Hird was supplying Valla compact mini cranes and Unic mini cranes to carry out glazing work installing all of the 11,500 glass panels at the prestigious ‘Shard’, part of the New London Bridge Quarter development underway in the nation’s capital, including the full London...
Full access platform and glass lifting hire solution for Quintiles
Hird provided a full access and lifting hire solution for Quintiles’ new head office in Green Park, Bracknell, Reading. The drug company’s building required interior remedial works within its glass atrium along with some glazing work at height. The glass handling and mini crane specialists provided a UNIC 706 mini...
EMU glazing robot provides quick & easy glass installation
Hird provided a glazing package to Chichester District Council to support the building work of a new recessed viewing screen at an important archaeological site in the city. The glass handling and mini crane specialists supplied an EMU glazing robot enabling glazers to install glass panels, each weighing 296kg, to...
New Range of A-frames, glass mules & glass lifting accessories
Hird now offers an extensive range of glass mules (or power trucks) and glass A-frame trolleys for hire across its UK depot network. Glass mules are used in conjunction with glass A-frame trolleys to safely move panes of glass. Using a glass mule means that there is a minimal amount...