Market leading crane hire and contract lifting services in Wakefield. Ainscough operates the UK’s largest fleet of mobile cranes from 30 strategic locations across the country. This means we’re able to deploy our fleet of crawler cranes, mobile tower cranes and heavy cranes to any location, which makes us the only one able to offer a truly national service. Whether you need ad hoc mobile crane hire in Wakefield for a specific task, or several vehicles for longer-term, larger-scale projects, you can trust Ainscough Crane Hire to provide all the reliability, availability, expertise and capability you need.
Get A Free QuoteWe have numerous accreditations & awards for outstanding QHSE, including ISO 9001, 14001 & 18001.
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Our safety culture ‘Make the Safe Choice’ is of paramount importance to our team. Our guiding principles centre on the idea that we all share a collective responsibility for the safety of everybody engaged in our operations, as well as anyone surrounding them – including our people, our customers, and members of the public. Ainscough holds numerous accreditations in recognition of our commitment to safety, and ensuring a safe system of work is a key priority in everything we do.
Safety
ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 accredited.
RISQS 5 star rating by the Rail Industry.
ROSPA Silver Award.
Safety measures regularly evaluated, tested, inspected and audited to uphold our impressive safety record.
Health and safety procedures communicated and reinforced through training programmes, regular bulletins, and MAAP (the Ainscough smartphone APP).
Reliability
Best-in-class Liebherr mobile cranes.
Stringent fleet maintenance schedules to increase availability and reliability.
Scale, infrastructure and in-house services to make cranes available for any purpose, at any time and location.
Extensive planning, experienced personnel and flawless execution to guarantee jobs will be completed on-schedule.
Availability
Largest fleet in the UK, with over 400 mobile, crawler, mobile tower and heavy cranes.
Nationwide 30 depot network to cover any location in the UK.
Fleet capabilities of up to 1000 tonnes.
Experience
Experience on all aspects of a lift, from consultation through to execution.
Extensive industry experience and highly trained personnel.
Sector-specific expertise for the most complex lifts.
Highest standards of customer service, lift design and operation.
Diligence, precision and efficiency are the hallmarks of our service, and we’ve been providing industry-leading lifting services to blue chip customers across a wide range of sectors for over 40 years. Precision, diligence and efficiency are the hallmarks of our service, and our team comprises the most knowledgeable, experienced and trusted experts in the industry – including crane operators, lift operatives and engineers, contract lift managers, and health and safety officers.
This considerable pool of in-house expertise gives us the ability to handle all areas of a project, regardless of its scale or complexity. Whatever job you’ve got in mind, you can expect planning and engineering services of the very highest quality.
Our contract lift solutions encompass a range of services in which we can undertake responsibility for all aspects of the lift, from initial consultation right through to final execution. At the design phase, we use market leading CAD software and BIM modelling to scope the project’s exact requirements. We can then also handle the risk assessment, method statement provision, QHSE analysis, road closure management, transport logistics and round the clock management.
All this is undertaken by our very own specialists and engineers here at Ainscough, so you can always have the confidence to ‘Make the Safe Choice’. For particularly high-risk or complex projects, customers can specify a bespoke, turnkey package that’s tailored to your exact requirements and schedule.
Our large and diverse fleet of cranes, coupled with the breadth and depth of our expertise, allows us to serve a broad range of sectors, including:
This fleet encompasses mobile tower cranes, crawler cranes and heavy cranes, which can be specified as single units or as part of a multi unit project. Whatever the nature or scale of the task at hand, you can rely on Ainscough to deliver.
Ainscough Crane Hire is proud of our regularly renewed industry accreditations