Market leading crane hire and contract lift services in Kendal. With the UK’s largest fleet of mobile cranes at our disposal, Ainscough Crane Hire operates from 30 strategic locations across the country, making us the only one able to deliver a truly national service. As well as choosing individual crane for ad hoc mobile crane hire in Kendal, or multiple vehicles for longer term, larger scale projects, our customers are also able to benefit from 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 over four decades we’ve been at the centre of a variety of key sectors. With our hallmarks of diligence, precision and efficiency, we provide a diverse array of lifting services that meet and exceed the expectations of our blue chip clients. Our team comprises the most knowledgeable, experienced and trusted experts in the lifting industry, including teams of crane operators, lift operatives and engineers, contract lift managers, and health and safety officers.
This gives us a significant pool of in-house expertise, which we use to tackle all areas of a project while providing planning and engineering services of the very highest quality – so our customers can always expect a truly unrivalled service on even the most complex or heavy lifts in Kendal.
Our contract lifting solutions encompass an array of services in which we’re able to take responsibility for all aspects of the lift, from initial consultation right through to final execution. This spans from the initial design, in which we use market leading CAD software and BIM modelling to scope the exact requirements of the lift, all the way through to the risk assessment. From there, we can also take on the method statement provision, QHSE analysis, road closure management, transport logistics and round the clock management.
All this detailed planning is undertaken by our own in-house specialist engineers and contract lift managers, so you can have total peace of mind when you make the Safe Choice with Ainscough Crane Hire. Our customers can also choose to have several of our services packaged in a bespoke, turnkey package that’s tailored to an exacting set of schedules and requirements.
Our large and diverse fleet is composed of mobile tower cranes, crawler cranes and heavy cranes. We can provide these as single units or as part of a multi unit contract, and have a wealth of experience with the following sectors:
We can make these cranes available in any location, so whatever the nature or scale of your contract lift in Kendal, you can count on Ainscough to deliver.
Ainscough Crane Hire is proud of our regularly renewed industry accreditations