Market-leading crane hire and contract lifting services in Rayleigh. Operating the UK’s largest fleet of cranes from 30 strategic locations across the country, at Ainscough Crane Hire we can deploy to any location. This makes us the only one able to offer a truly national service, placing safety at the heart of everything we do. Alongside our diverse fleet of cranes, we also offer our blue-chip clients access to high-quality planning services and industry-leading expertise.
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.
Over more than 40 years of serving blue chip clients across a range of industries, we’ve distinguished our diverse range of lifting services with the distinctive hallmarks of precision, efficiency and diligence. We don’t outsource any of these services – instead, they’re all delivered by 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 the in-house expertise to target all areas of a project, with planning, engineering services of the very highest quality – whether you require one-off mobile crane hire in Rayleigh, industry-leading project management, or comprehensive contract lifting solutions.
Our contract lift solutions encompass a range of services in which we can take on responsibility for all aspects of the lift, from the initial consultation right through to final execution. At the initial design phase, we typically use market-leading CAD software and BIM modelling to scope the exact requirements of the lift. This gives a solid grounding which we can then use to move on to the subsequent 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 lift managers, allowing you to have total peace of mind when you Make the Safe Choice with Ainscough Crane Hire. If yours is a notably high risk or heavy lift in [PLACE], we also provide the option to choose a bespoke, turnkey package that’s tailored to your exact requirements and schedule.
With a large and diverse fleet at our disposal, we serve a wide range of specialist sectors, including:
Our fleet spans a wide range of mobile tower cranes, crawler cranes and heavy cranes, and you can hire a crane either as a single unit or multiple vehicles as part of large, multi unit project. Whatever the nature or scale of your project in Rayleigh, you can rely on Ainscough to deliver.
Ainscough Crane Hire is proud of our regularly renewed industry accreditations
