Crane Hire

Crane hire gives small construction companies a range of excellent solutions.  From mobile crane hire to full static tower crane hire, leasing lifting equipment from a business that offers full backup and support can save huge maintenance bills – and solve staffing problems at the same time.

Cranes need to be operated by trained personnel.  Training takes time and costs money – and a construction company that doesn’t own a crane is unlikely to have pre-trained staff around to man gear leased through crane hire businesses.  Crane hire allows constructors to lease the driver along with the unit, effectively buying the use of their skills along with the capabilities of the equipment.

For the same reason, crane hire prevents costly insurance claims being levied on a construction company who have had an accident involving a lifting vehicle.  Crane hire, like any vehicle hire, comes with its own indemnity:  drivers leased through crane hire should also be covered by their company policy, which means lessees are not liable for damage they may cause while working the unit.

Static crane hire gives companies the benefit of an imported team of assemblers.  Static cranes take time and a lot of expertise to build, which can cripple a site when undertaken by the wrong people.  Static crane hire includes setup and dismantling as standard, with annual or even biannual inspections and maintenance carried out by qualified hire company teams. 

All crane hire companies carry spare parts for their vehicles and undertake essential maintenance as part of the contract.  In the same way that a road user hiring a car can be sure that that vehicle has been well maintained and is in good working order, so can a crane hire customer relax in the knowledge that an expensive and often complex piece of kit is being looked after at someone else’s expense.

Sites restricted by poor access or constrictive areas (inner city construction sites, for example) can be transformed by opting for mobile crane hire.  A mobile crane is driveable and quick to set up – which means that a restricted site simply has to wait until a crane is required, call in a mobile crane hire for a few days and ship it out again.  When the crane isn’t needed, it isn’t there:  freeing up valuable space for other machinery and material.

Crane hire in all its guises is the only sensible way to run a modern construction company.  The crane is a difficult and often dangerous machine – crane hire allows constructors to buy the expertise and safety knowledge needed to keep one working.