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Tandem Valla mini crane lift beats food factory access challenge

A machinery lifting and moving team from Hird has helped a food factory install a new boiler with a tandem lift using two eco-friendly electric Valla pick and carry cranes. The Valla 35E and Valla 22E mini cranes moved the cylindrical boiler through a doorway with just centimetres to spare...

Hird guide 2.0 – bigger and better but it’s still pocket-sized

Hird’s ground-breaking pocket guide – copied but never bettered – has been thoroughly overhauled and expanded in time to be launched at Vertikal Days. The guide now contains technical details about even more machines, equipment and training courses in an action-packed 289 pages. But it will still fit snuggly in...

Hird flies Manitex Valla aviation crane message to Dubai expo

A team from Hird is jetting to the Middle East to promote Manitex Valla aviation maintenance cranes at a major maintenance, repair, overhaul (MRO) exhibition in Dubai. More than 5,000 people involved in the MRO industry are due to attend MRO Middle East which includes an exhibition at the Dubai...

Product of the Month – Valla 22E plus fly jib

It’s time to give the limitations on what we think a mini crane can do the chop. Because our Product of the Month for February is the Valla 22E pick and carry crane with fly jib. Take a tip from the late great Bruce Lee. “If you always put limits...

Hird takes top glass installation technology to FIT Show 2019

Glazing equipment hire specialist Hird is taking the world’s best glass installation cranes and robots to FIT Show 2019 from 21 to 23 May. On stand B30, its team of experts are showcasing the most productive, sustainable and safest equipment available on the market for fast and efficient glass installation....

UK gets first look at “futuristic” new Valla crane at Vertikal

Hird is putting Manitex Valla’s latest pick and carry crane on display for the first time in the UK at Vertikal Days. The Valla 70R electric industrial crane is fully wireless remote-controlled and has been designed to set new standards of flexible lifting in confined space. It will be displayed...

Curtain wall lifting equipment hire

A curtain wall is a non-load-bearing wall system that allows relatively-light panels to be installed on the outside of buildings – usually with the aid of specialist curtain walling lifting equipment Curtain walling can be made from a range of materials, including glass, stone, or glass-reinforced concrete (GRC). Glass curtain...

Valla and Elebia take lifting productivity to the next level

Hird Group teamed up with global crane hook manufacturer Elebia at Vertikal Days 2018 to demonstrate how automatic hook technology and Valla compact cranes can be a perfect match. A Manitex Valla 22E pick and carry crane was fitted with an Elebia evo2 hook to show the additional flexibility and...