Market leading crane hire and contract lift services in Kirkintilloch. We operate the UK’s largest fleet of mobile cranes from 30 strategic locations across the country, which makes us the only one able to deliver a truly national service. Taking care to place safety at the heart of everything we do, we’re also able to provide high quality planning services and industry-leading expertise. In short, whatever the nature or scale of your contract lift in Kirkintilloch, you can rely on Ainscough to deliver.
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 Crane Hire 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 wide range of industries, delivering a range of lifting services distinguished by our hallmarks of diligence, precision and efficiency. We don’t outsource any of these services, preferring instead to rely on our own in-house team, which comprises some of the most knowledgeable and respected experts in the lifting industry.
Our team encompasses crane operators, lift operatives and engineers, contract lift managers, and health and safety officers. This gives us access to a considerable pool of in-house expertise that enables us to target all areas of a given project, including even the heaviest or most complex lifts in Kirkintilloch.
Our contract lift solutions cover a wide range of services in which our experts are able to take on all aspects of an individual lift, from consultation right through to final execution. We use market leading Computer Aided Design software and BIM modelling at the design phase, to scope the exact requirements of the project. From there, we can also undertake responsibility for the risk assessment, method statement provision, QHSE analysis, road closure management, transport logistics and round the clock management.
Every aspect of this detailed planning process is handled by our own specialist engineers and contract lift managers, allowing you have total confidence when you ‘Make the Safe Choice’ with Ainscough Crane Hire.
Our large and diverse fleet allows us to provide comprehensive, market-leading services to a wide range of specialist sectors, including:
Each of our lifting services puts our wide range of tower cranes, Each of our lifting services puts our wide range of tower cranes, crawler cranes and heavy cranes at your disposal, and we can make them available in any location. When you hire a crane in Kirkintilloch, you can choose one either as a single unit, or hire several as part of a larger multi-unit contract. Whatever you have planned, you can rely on Ainscough to provide a truly unrivalled service.
Ainscough Crane Hire is proud of our regularly renewed industry accreditations
