Market leading crane hire and contract lift services in Inverness. We operate the UK’s largest fleet of cranes from 30 strategic locations across the country, and can deploy these cranes to any location. This makes us the only one able to offer a truly national service, which includes high quality planning services and industry leading expertise. Whether you’re looking to hire a crane in Inverness for a specific task, or you need a small team of cranes for longer term, larger scale projects, you can count on 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.
For more than 40 years, we’ve been serving blue chip customers across a range of sectors with our diverse array of lifting services, each one distinguished by our hallmarks of diligence, efficiency and precision. We don’t outsource any of these services – instead they’re all carried out by our in-house team, who comprise some of the most knowledgeable and trusted experts in the lifting industry, including teams of crane operators, contract lift managers, lift operatives and engineers, and health and safety officers.
With this considerable pool of in-house expertise at our disposal, we’re able to tackle all areas of a given project, even on the most complex or heavy lift in Inverness. This allows our customers to benefit from planning, engineering and in-depth expertise of the very highest quality – whether they require one off mobile crane hire, industry leading project management, or comprehensive contract lifting solutions in Inverness.
Our range of contract lift solutions encompass a range of services in which Ainscough personnel can take on responsibility for every aspect of the lift, from the initial consultation right through to final execution. At the early design stage, we typically use CAD software and BIM modelling to scope the exact requirements of the lift. This gives a solid grounding to move onto the risk assessment, method statement provision, QHSE analysis, road closure management, transport logistics and round the clock management.
All this is handled by our own in-house specialists right here at Ainscough, so that you can always have total confidence to ‘Make the Safe Choice’ with Ainscough Crane Hire. And if your project involves a particularly heavy or complex lift in Inverness, we can also combine several of our services into a single bespoke, turnkey package, all tailored to your exact requirements and schedule.
With a large and diverse fleet that encompasses crawler cranes, heavy cranes and mobile tower cranes – together with the extensive expertise of our staff – we routinely take on even the most challenging projects in a variety of key sectors, including:
We can supply our cranes either as a single unit for ad hoc crane hire in Inverness, or in small groups as part of a multi-unit contract. Whatever the nature of your project, you can always rely on Ainscough to deliver.
Ainscough Crane Hire is proud of our regularly renewed industry accreditations