Market leading crane hire and contract lift services in Sale. Ainscough operates the UK’s largest fleet of mobile cranes from 30 strategic locations across the country. That enables us to deploy to any location, making us the only one able to offer a truly national service. As well as access to a huge fleet of cranes, our customers can also enjoy high quality planning services and industry leading expertise. Whatever the nature or scale of your complex or heavy lift in Sale, you can count on us to provide all the reliability, availability capability and expertise 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 providing a diverse range of lifting services to blue chip customers across a range of industries, all distinguished by our hallmarks of diligence, precision and efficiency. The most knowledgeable, experienced and trusted experts in the lifting industry comprise our staff here at Ainscough Crane Hire, including teams of crane operators, lift operatives and engineers, contract lift managers, and health and safety officers.
With this combined pool of in-house expertise at our disposal, we’re equipped to tackle all areas of a project, using vehicles and planning services of the very highest quality. For particularly complex or demanding lifts, we can even provide a bespoke turnkey package that’s tailored to your specific schedule and requirements – allowing you to have total confidence when you ‘Make the Safe Choice’ with Ainscough Crane Hire for contract lifts in Sale.
Our contract lift solutions encompass a range of services in which we can take on responsibility for all areas of the lift, from initial consultation right through to final execution. At the initial design phase, we use market leading CAD software and BIM modelling to scope the exact requirements of the lift, gathering vital information that we can then use for the risk assessment. At your discretion, we can also take care of method statement provision, QHSE analysis, road closure management, transport logistics and round the clock management.
We don’t outsource any of this work to third parties – instead, all this detailed planning is undertaken by our own specialist engineers and contract lift managers here at Ainscough Crane Hire, and safety is at the heart of everything we do, allowing you to have total confidence when you ‘Make the Safe Choice’. We can also provide several of our services in a bespoke, turnkey package that’s tailored to your specific schedule and requirements.
With a large and diverse fleet at our disposal, we have a vast amount of specific experience with a range of key sectors, including:
What’s more, our range of lifting services allows you to choose from mobile tower cranes, crawler and heavy cranes, which we can make available in any location. You can hire a crane either as a single unit, or as part of a multi-unit project in Sale. In short, whatever the nature or scale of your project, you can always rely on Ainscough to deliver.
Ainscough Crane Hire is proud of our regularly renewed industry accreditations