Mini Crawler Cranes – The Answer to Your Health and Safety Problems

If you ever run into health and safety problems whilst commissioning a refurbishment job, or a building project in delicate or residential areas: don’t worry. The march of modern technology has created the answer to your problem before you even knew that you had one. Crawler cranes, which are designed to perform difficult interior lifts, or lifts in confined spaces, tick every box on the health and safety list – up to and including environmental compliance and noise regulation.

The crawler crane is small and runs on dual power, which means it can operate silently and without any form of exhaust emission if it has to. Moreover, it is designed to be radio controlled, and constructed with uneven or tricky territory in mind. Effectively, crawler cranes are mobile, remotely controlled lifting platforms that need no prior construction and can be put in awkward or downright hazardous places to carry out essential lifting work.

Some of the most common applications for the use of the crawler crane come where internal work is being done – either a restoration project in a listed building, or any form of normal internal work where noise and emissions regulations look likely to be difficult. The crawler crane allows you to enter such an enclosed space and work with maximum lifting efficiency – without fumes causing health and safety issues for your work force; without vibration causing structural issues; and without machinery noise causing hearing problems.

Crawler cranes can operate to an average lift weight of six tonnes, meaning that even heavy duty lifting in internal areas (six tonnes is quite a lot for an internal lift) can be carried out with little or no problem. The support structure of the crawler prevents it from moving even an inch out of place – meaning of course that any delicate interior fittings or walls can be worked next to without fear of a small slip or sudden movement knocking a hole where a hole is not required.

Crawler cranes are available both as contract or machine only hires – which means that the expense of keeping a crane operator on your books is not necessarily something you have to worry about any more. If you need to do enclosed or tricky space lifting, and you do not employ a crane operator of your own, there is no need to worry.

A crawler crane can be hired to a full contract basis, which means that all responsibilities regarding the regulation compliance of the lifting job, and of the person actually carrying out the lift, lie with the hire company. In this case, crawler cranes are supplied by a hire company along with full documentation, full permissions and a driver who is capable of, and cleared to, carry out all the lifting work for which that crane has been hired. That means no more red tape and no more waiting around – just quick lifting solutions in even the most difficult or sensitive of areas. In an industry where time most definitely does mean money, that’s an ideal solution.