A Channel Four TV documentary about building of Europe’s tallest building – The Shard in London – has demonstrated the contribution made to the project by spider cranes supplied by Peter Hird and Sons. The programme was broadcast on Wednesday May 2 – and told the story of the construction of the pyramid shaped tower, which rises from its base next to London Bridge Station in Southwark to a height of 310 metres, or 1,020 ft. The tower has 72 habitable floors and is clad in 11,000 glass panels. Every one of them is being lifted into place using UNIC URW 295 spider cranes, supplied by Hull-based Peter Hird and Sons, from its Southern Depot in Redhill, Surrey. Managing Director Phil Hird said: “We’ve been involved in the project since the cladding operation began on May 25 2010. The documentary was excellent and showed just what an exciting and impressive the Shard...

Peter Hird & Sons is continuing to supply its UK customers with an extensive range of UNIC mini spider cranes for hire. Hirds chose UNIC as a supplier, as the company manufactures the world’s most compact mini cranes, making them ideal for lifting loads where space and access is restricted. The Hirds fleet of UNIC mini spider cranes has many impressive features – these include: • UNIC URW 094 – the smallest UNIC mini crane in the range • UNIC URW 095 – ideal for glass lifting in conjunction with a glass vacuum lifter such as the MRT4 • UNIC URW 295 – the first mini crawler crane in Europe that is narrow enough to fit through a single doorway • UNIC URW 376 – featuring a large working radius of 14.45m • UNIC URW 506 – impressive capability of lifting 3 tonnes at 3.4m • UNIC URW 706 – the work horse of the fleet, this mini...

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Peter Hird & Sons Ltd is continuing to offer the best in powered access hire to its customers in Hull, Yorkshire and across the North of England. Hirds, which is based in Hull, offers competitive rates on short term and long term hire on a range of powered access equipment, including electric scissor Lift hire, diesel scissor lift hire electric boom lift hire (or cherry picker hire) and diesel boom lift hire. The Hird range of powered access also includes more specialist machines, such as low level personnel lift hire, low level tracked spider boom hire and various bi-energy access platforms for hire. The Hull access rental specialists can also supply any safety equipment necessary such as safety harnesses, along with delivering any powered access safety courses that may be required. The Hird range includes machines from leading manufacturers such as Genie (Hirds is an...

Hull based powered access specialist, Peter Hird and Sons Ltd, has added to its fleet of Electric Scissor Lifts and Diesel Scissor Lifts, for hire in order to meet a rising demand from its customers needing to work at height. Hirds has purchased the MEWPs (mobile elevating work platforms) from the world’s leading manufacturer of powered access, Genie. The investment totals 21 new machines made up of 6 different models. New electric scissor lifts for hire: • Genie GS-1932 • Genie GS-2632 • Genie GS-3246 New diesel scissor lifts for hire: • Genie GS-2669 • Genie GS-3269 • Genie GS-5390 As part of the ongoing investment in its powered access fleet, Hirds can now offer its access customers its largest scissor lift for hire to date – the Genie GS-5390 (see pic). The GS-5390 has a working height of 18.15m (59.5ft) and a lifting capacity of...

Peter Hird and Sons is continuing to supply its customers with one of the UK’s largest range of pick and carry cranes. Hirds has a long standing relationship with leading crane manufacturer, Valla, and continues to offer the company’s cranes both for hire and for sale. Pick & Carry cranes are versatile machines of varying sizes and are used to pick up, transport and place loads of up to 90,000 kg in weight. Our range of pick and carry cranes for hire includes: Valla 20E Valla 20E TRX Valla 20D TRX Valla 25EL Valla 35E Valla 35D TRX Valla 50E Valla 75E Valla 90E Valla 120E Valla 180E Valla 250E Power supply options on the Valla range include electric pick and carry cranes, diesel pick and carry cranes and LPG pick and carry cranes. Machines either feature non marking tyres, making them suitable for indoor use, whilst other models have tracks making them...

Machine moving specialists Peter Hird and Sons continues to offer its UK and Ireland based customers a first class factory re-location and machine moving service. Based in Hull, Hirds is valued by its customers for operating a modern fleet of mini cranes, Pick and Carry cranes, spider cranes and a powered access fleet from leading manufacturers, such as Valla, Unic, JLG and Genie, to complete jobs including single machine moves, through to complete production line re-locations safely and efficiently. A number of industries continue to take advantage of Hirds’ machine moving services, these include: • food production machine moving • aerospace machine moving • petrochemical machine moving • printing machine moving • timber machine moving • factory machine moving Along with its fleet of mini cranes, Hirds uses a whole range of specialist equipment to...