Product of the Month – Oil&Steel Octoplus 21 spider lift
Hird’s Product of the Month for June – the Oil&Steel Octoplus 21 – has features that hire customers really appreciate, because they set the platform apart from other spider lifts.
Its power and flexiblity is valued by a wide range of working at height customers, including building surveyors and inspectors, tree surgeons, construction contractors and EME specialists.
Designed for challenging environments
Like all spider lifts, the Oil&Steel Octoplus 21 is designed specifically to be moved through constrained space, whether that be entranceways or across cluttered ground.
As a tracked access platform, it is ideal for operating over rough or soft terrain, for example on unprepared areas on construction sites, on low-load-bearing or sensitive indoor floors, or in the middle of a forest.
Once it has reached the worksite, the outriggers are deployed and the Octoplus 21 spider lift can be put to work supporting safe working on a wide range of structures, including buildings, light stanchions, telecoms masts and trees.
Industry-leading features
Our Oil&Steel Octoplus 21 provides a maximum working height of 20.7m and a maximum outreach of 10.6m. This is the first advantage the platform has over rivals.
In our opinion, it is the best combination of working height and outreach for any spider on the market in the 20-21m working height range.
And when a few centimetres can matter when it comes to getting a job done safety, providing the best performance can make a difference.
At 630mm, the ground clearance of the Octoplus 21 when set up for working at height is also greater than other platforms in its class. This helps when working over particularly uneven ground.
Its all steel boom and body panels means the Octoplus 21 is more robust than rival platforms, while cables and the drive belt are stowed inside the boom, reducing the risk of snagging.
Boom rotation through plus or minus 1800, basket rotation through plus or minus 750 and jib up and down movement through 1160 all support precise positioning of the basket for safe and productive working.
Lithium power for sustainable operation
These are reasons why the spider lift is a next generation platform, combining advantages that give our customers the edge when using it.
Another reason is that our Oil&Steel Octoplus 21 is an all-electric lithium battery powered spider. It delivers low-noise, zero emissions operation for every task our customers use it for.
This contributes to our customers’ sustainability / Net Zero strategies and, just as importantly, to their customers’ strategies, at a time when many clients are demanding low-carbon practices from their suppliers.
Working from a lithium battery electric spider lift also provides operational advantages. It allows our spider lift hire customers to work more flexibly in low residential areas or low noise zones around hospitals, schools and care homes.
Using our lithium Octoplus 21, our customers can start work earlier and can go on working later, knowing they will not be disturbing their customers or their neighbours.
The lithium batteries are designed to provide full-shift operation, and can be topped up while the spider lift is being operated, with mains cable electricity or via a generator.
Optimising safety and productivity
The Octoplus 21 has a large basket – it is 1400mm wide, which is enough for two operates to work together, if necessary. To support this, its maximum basket capacity is 250kg, across a slightly reduced working envelope.
At its full working envelope, the basket capacity is 150kg, which is plenty for a single operative (the most common set-up for spider lifts) plus a good range of tools.
Stowed for tracking, with its quick-release basket removed, the Octoplus 21 spider cherry picker is just 785mm wide and 1980mm high, allowing it to be tracked through garden gates and down narrow paths.
Equally, it can be tracked into buildings through single doorways – we have fitted spider lift with white, non-marking tracks, specifically to assist customers who want to us it for internal working.
As a tracked spider platform, it also performs brilliantly over uneven and unstable terrain. Its hydraulic tracks can be extended to increase stability, contributing to gradeability of 30%.
One button platform automatic outrigger levelling and stowing for fast and safe platform set-up is also a popular feature.
As is its ability to automatically remain at the same distance from a structure while it is raised or lowered, making the platform easier and safer to operate.
More spider lift hire options
The Oil&Steel Octoplus 21 can reach places and complete tasks conventional platforms cannot manage.
With a maximum working height of 17m and a maximum outreach of 7.6m, the Oil&Steel Octoplus 17 is also a firm favourite with Hird spider lift hire customers.
Also available for hire from Hird is the Hinowa Lightlift 26.14 Performance IIIS, which has a maximum working height 25.7m and an outreach of 13.75m.
Find out more
Talk to Hird today about the flexibility, safety and productivity advantages of hiring the Oil&Steel Octoplus 21 spider lift from Hird. It is available across the UK, via our three operational hubs.
As Hird is an IPAF training centre, we can also provide the appropriate training for your operatives to use spider platforms safely.
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