Product of the Month 2025 Roundup
Higher, smarter and safer
We’ve just realised, we’re days away from being a quarter of the way through the century.
Here, though, we’ll focus on just the last 12 months, with our Product of the Month Round-up for 2025. Featuring equipment and services that have allowed our customers to lift, work and transport higher, further, faster, more sustainably, smarter and safer.
January – Dingli JCPT2223DC electric all-terrain scissor lift
We launched into 2025 with a review of the Dingli JCPT2223DC scissor lift, at the time one of the newest machines on the Hird access platform hire fleet and still one of the largest electric rough terrain scissors in the UK.
With a maximum working height of 22m, it combines excellent performance, both indoors and outdoors, with zero emissions operation. It has a capacity of 750kg, with a platform that is 2.25m wide and 4.59m long, with a platform extension that extends that length to 7.29m.
February – Maeda MK3053C electric spider crane
In February, we kept the battery electric power theme going. In fact, 10 out of the 12 Hird Products of the Month in 2025 have been battery electric machines. This time it was the new Maeda MK3053C knuckle boom spider crane – Hird had the first one in the UK.
Our Maeda MK3053C has had a huge impact since it was added to our mini crane hire fleet. With a SWL of 2.98t, it has a maximum working height of 16.95m and maximum radius of 14.3m. And customers have been amazed at how adept it is at working in difficult spaces.
March – Genie GS-1432m electric scissor lift
The Genie GS-1432m scissor is the access platform that can do everything well. The ‘m’ stands for micro. It is a highly versatile low-level slab scissor lift that excels for our customers indoors and outdoors, with an impressive 227kg platform capacity.
Sealed electric motors give it plenty of oomph and maximise reliability, with a max working height of 6.3m indoors and 5.66m outdoors. When stowed, the Genie GS-1432m is just 810mm wide and 1880mm high, so can be moved through most single doorways.
April – Winlet 1000 electric glazing robot
Early spring heralded the arrival in our PoTM pantheon of the Winlet 1000 glazing robot. As we pointed out, its four vacuum cups can lift a 1 tonne panel of glass, equivalent to the weight of a fully-grown Australian saltwater crocodile.
Not just lift it, but rotate, tilt and move it up, down and sideways, in every way possible – and raise it to a height of 4.1m and install it with extreme precision and safety. This is glass installation with no compromise, carried out sustainability with smaller teams.
May – Maeda MC305CB-3 electric spider crane
With the daffs well and truly in bloom, we returned to the crane lifting wonder that is Maeda, namely the Maeda MC305CB-3 ECO spider crane. We chose it to further extol the virtues of Maeda electric spider cranes. Once our customers try them, they love them.
Powered by zero-emissions lithium batteries, Hird’s Maeda MC305CB-3 ECO spider crane has a SWL of 2.98t (at 2.5m), with a maximum radius of 12.16m (SWL: 260kg) and a maximum jib height of 12.52m (SWL: 790kg). It’s perfect for indoor and outdoor working, while near-silent operation extends work times into early mornings and evenings.
June – Oil&Steel Octoplus 21 electric spider boom
The Oil&Steel Octoplus 21 spider lift is another machine that wows our customers with its power, productivity and flexibility. It delivers industry-leading performance: 20.7m of working height, 10.6m of outreach and exceptional ground clearance, when set up.
As a zero-emissions tracked boom lift, it operates seamlessly indoors and outdoors, across unstable ground and sensitive, low load-bearing surfaces. Our customers use the to work at height in atriums, on trees, and for building maintenance, plus much more.
July – Winlet ErgoMover electric materials trolley
At the height of summer, we showcased wireless remote-controlled Winlet ErgoMover materials trolleys. They have three great advantages: simpler, more productive, and safer transportation of materials and equipment, like brick-packs, cement, plaster board, steel beams and wood.
Choose from two ErgoMover electric trolleys in the Hird hire fleet. The Lift & Go has a maximum capacity of 1,500kg. Its load deck can be raised and lowered to pick up and set down loads. While, the Manipulator can carry materials weighing 1.1t, with a load deck that can be tipped nearly vertically to during loading or off-loading.
August – Valla V36R electric pick and carry crane
The Valla V36R is “ridiculously compact” for such a powerful crane, we confidently stated. The pick and carry crane has a max SWL of 3.6 tonnes but is nearly half a metre narrower than the UK’s smallest car. Also, as a Valla V Series crane, it has a fantastic range of features.
With its hydraulic fly jib deployed, the Valla V36R’s already impressive working height is extended to 8.7m (SWL: 450kg) and radius to 5.8m (SWL: 250kg). With non-marking tyres and fume-free lifting, the wireless remote-controlled crane is at home in factories, aircraft hangars, tunnels, and shafts.
September – Snake 2010H Plus truck mount boom lift
For working at height on the go, at multiple locations, one after the other, there is nothing that can compare with the flexibility and productivity of a truck-mount platform, like September’s featured machine, the Oil&Steel Snake 2010H Plus.
It provides 20m of working height, from a large 225kg-capacity basket, with a maximum outreach of 10.2m. Other advantages include a compact design, fast and simple set-up, flexible stabilisation options, exceptional safety, and smart controls, that contribute to easy operation.
October – Valla V130RX electric pick and carry crane
We returned to Valla pick and carry crane power in October, and the Valla V130RX mini crane. It deftly answers a knotty question: what if you need a smaller crane to get into a very constrained space, but a bigger crane to carry out the lift?
The Valla V130RX’s solution is an extendable chassis (and a stabiliser bar) that, at a touch of a button, creates a more stable crane, with a larger lifting capacity. It has a SWL of 13 tonnes, a jib height up to 12.5m (SWL: 4.2t) and maximum radius of 8m (SWL: 2.3t).
November – Aconda electric tracked carriers
Smart technical solutions kept coming in November, when we showcased our Aconda battery electric tracked carriers: go-anywhere mini beasts of burden that excel over rough and soft ground, and across sensitive floors.
The TC-1250 PRO has a maximum capacity of 1250kg, and can be hired with a fifth wheel and dolly for moving long loads weighing up to 2250kg. Or select the TC-2500, with a capacity of 2500kg, or the TC-4000 PRO, which can carry materials or equipment weighing up to 4000kg.
December – Hird machinery moving service
Which brings us to the last month of the year, it’s gone so quickly! We chose to showcase our machinery moving service, which benefits from being able to select from the full range of equipment in Hird’s hire fleet.
Rising to new lifting challenges, meeting tough deadlines, but always carrying out machine moving projects safely and sustainably are the hallmarks of a service respected and in demand across the UK. Can-do, friendly service is always guaranteed.
Find out more
All our Products of the Month are available across the UK via our three operational hire hubs. For each of the machines featured, Hird can deliver accredited training, so your teams work as safely and productively as possible.
Talk to Hird today about any of the machines featured. They represent a fraction of what we have to offer to support safe lifting and working at height. Look out for our exciting new PoTMs in 2026.
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