Market leading crane hire and contract lift services in Accrington. Ainscough operates the UK’s largest fleet of mobile cranes, operating from 30 strategic locations across the country. This enables us to deploy to any location, making us the only one able to provide a truly national service. We place safety at the heart of everything we do, providing access to our diverse fleet alongside high quality planning services and industry leading expertise.
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.
For more than four decades, we’ve been at the centre of multiple key sectors, providing blue chip clients with access to our diverse array of lifting services – all distinguished by our characteristic hallmarks of diligence, efficiency and precision. Our services are carried out by our own in-house staff, comprising teams of crane operators, lift operatives and engineers, contract lift managers, and health and safety officers.
With their combined expertise at our disposal, we’re able to tackle all areas of a given project, providing planning and engineering services of the very highest quality – so you can always expect a peerless service whatever the nature or scale of the project at hand.
Our comprehensive range of contract lift solutions encompass a range of services in which Ainscough staff can take responsibility for all areas of a given project. This includes the initial design, which we specify using CAD software or BIM Modelling to scope the exact requirements of the project. From there, our specialist engineers and contract lift managers can handle the method statement provision, QHSE analysis, road closure management and transport logistics, and round the clock management.
We never outsource any of our services, so that you can always have the total peace of mind to ‘Make the Safe Choice’ with Ainscough Crane Hire. For particularly complex or demanding lifts, we can even combine several of our services into a bespoke turnkey package, tailored to your specific schedule and requirements.
Combined with the breadth and depth of our expertise, our large and diverse fleet of cranes for hire allows us to serve clients across a range of key sectors, including:
• Infrastructure
• Petrochemical, oil and gas
• Industrial
• Power generation
• Construction
Whether you’re looking to hire a crane in Accrington on an ad-hoc basis, or you’re after multiple vehicles for larger-scale, long-term projects, you can count on Ainscough Crane Hire to provide all the reliability, availability, expertise and capability you need.
Ainscough Crane Hire is proud of our regularly renewed industry accreditations