Market leading crane hire and contract lift services in Folkestone. We operate the UK’s largest fleet of mobile cranes from 30 strategic locations across the country, making us the only one able to offer a truly national service. When you hire a crane in Folkestone, you’ll also gain the benefit of high quality planning services and industry-leading expertise – so whether you’re looking for ad-hoc mobile crane hire, or multiple vehicles for longer-term, larger scale projects, you can count on Ainscough 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.
Learn MoreFrom John O’ Groats to Lands End with the UK’s largest fleet of 400+ cranes across 30 locations.
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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.
With over 40 years of experience behind us, for decades we’ve been serving blue chip clients across a range of industries with a range of lifting services all distinguished by our hallmarks of diligence, precision and efficiency. These lifting services are delivered by our own in-house team, comprising some of the most respected and knowledgeable individuals in the industry – including teams of crane operators, contract lift managers, lift operatives and engineers, and health and safety officers.
With this considerable pool of collective expertise at our disposal, we’re able to handle every aspect of a given project, on even the most heavy or complex lifts in Folkestone. Whether you require one-off mobile crane hire, industry leading project management or comprehensive contract lifting solutions in Folkestone, you can rely on Ainscough to deliver.
Our range of contract lifting solutions encompasses a broad range of services in which our experts can undertake all aspects of the lift, from the initial design all the way through to final execution. At the design phase, we use CAD software and BIM modelling to scope the exact requirements of the project, and can also take on responsibility for the risk assessment, method statement provision, QHSE analysis, road closure management, transport logistics and round the clock management.
All this detailed planning is undertaken by our own specialist engineers and contract managers, and for particularly high risk or complex lifts, we can even provide a bespoke turnkey package for your individual project – one that’s specifically tailored to your own requirements and deadlines.
With decades of operation behind us, we have a wealth of experience with the following key sectors:
Our fleet encompasses mobile tower cranes, crawler cranes and even heavy cranes, and you can hire a crane either as a single unit, or multiple vehicles as part of a large contract lift in Folkestone. Whatever the case, you can rely on Ainscough Crane Hire to deliver.
Ainscough Crane Hire is proud of our regularly renewed industry accreditations
