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Hird has the power to lift transformer in tightest spot
Contract Lifting • Pick and Carry Cranes
Pick and carry cranes are known for their excellent performance in confined spaces – and sometimes a lifting project comes along that tests this to the limit. That was certainly the case when Hird was commissioned to lift a 2.5 tonne transformer into position down a fully-enclosed alley in the...
Raise a glass to perfect brewery tandem crane lift
Contract Lifting • Pick and Carry Cranes
A lifting team from Hird has installed three tanks at a new brewery in Kent by carrying out tandem lifts with Valla pick and carry cranes. The machinery moving project was completed in just one day at the brewery being built in the centre of Ashford. A Valla 120E mini...
Product of the Month – Valla 90E pick and carry crane
Pick and Carry Cranes • Product of the Month
Everyone likes a super hero with special powers, don’t they? That’s why our Product of the Month for November is the Valla 90E pick and carry crane. The Valla 90E is no lightweight. However, when you consider that it can lift a maximum of 9 tonnes, yet is just 1.73...
Product of the Month – Valla 120ES pick and carry crane
Pick and Carry Cranes • Product of the Month
To be a mini crane or not to be a mini crane, that is the question. For our Product of the Month for October, the mighty Valla 120ES pick and carry crane. We have gone out on a limb with some unusual connections here at Hird. Comparing a vacuum lifter...
Richard joins expanding crane and lifting sales team
Glazing Robots • Pick and Carry Cranes • Recruitment
Hird Ltd has boosted its cranes and lifting equipment sales team with the appointment of Richard Tomlinson as a National Sales Specialist. Richard has more than 30 years’ experience working in the plant hire, sales and construction sectors and will report to National Sales and After Sales Manager Carl Cooper....
Valla mini crane drops in to support Underground extension
Hird News • Mini Cranes • Pick and Carry Cranes
A Valla mini crane has been dropped 20 metres down a shaft to support construction of the latest extension of the London Underground. The Manitex Valla 250E pick and carry crane, the latest addition to Hird’s small crane fleet, is being used to carry and install precast concrete sections in...
Product of The Month – Valla 250E pick and carry crane
Pick and Carry Cranes • Product of the Month
Remember the shock created when BMW launched its new Mini? It’s too big, everyone said. It isn’t a squeeze to get in! Well, we’re tempting the same fate with our Product of the Month for February, because it is the Manitex Valla 250E pick and carry crane. Valla pick and...
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...