Market leading crane hire and contract lift services in South London. Operating the UK’s largest and most diverse fleet of cranes from 30 strategic locations across the country, at Ainscough Crane Hire we are the only one able to provide a truly national service. Throughout more than four decades in operation, we’ve always taken care to place safety at the heart of everything we do – so whether you’re looking for one-off crane hire in South London, or multiple vehicles for a large-scale or heavy lift, you can always count on us to provide all the reliability, expertise, availability and capability you need.
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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, our industry-leading lifting solutions have been distinguished by the hallmarks of diligence, efficiency and precision. That’s consistently made us the top choice for blue chip customers across the country, and we maintain our own high standards by taking care not to outsource any of our services. Instead, our lifting solutions are delivered by the most knowledgeable, experienced and trusted experts in the lifting industry – including crane operators, lift operatives and engineers, contract lift managers and health and safety officers.
By drawing on their considerable pool of in-house expertise, we’re able to target all areas of a project, regardless of its scale or complexity. Whatever the scale of your complex or heavy lift in South London, when you choose Ainscough Crane Hire, you can always count on a truly unrivalled service.
Our contract lift solutions encompass a range of services in which Ainscough personnel can handle all aspects of the lift, right from the initial planning stages. Here, we typically use CAD software or BIM modelling to scope the exact requirements of the lift. This gives us a solid grounding from which we can then move onto the subsequent risk assessment, method statement provision, QHSE analysis, road closure management and transport logistics, and round the clock management. We can provide all of these services in tandem, or undertake them individually as required.
Whatever option you choose, you can be sure that it’s all handled by our own specialist engineers and contract lift managers, giving you the total confidence you need to Make the Safe Choice with Ainscough Crane Hire. For particularly high risk, heavy or complex lifts in South London, we can even provide the option to choose several of our services in tandem, so you get the benefit of a bespoke turnkey package that’s tailored to your exact schedule and requirements.
Our diverse range of cranes encompasses mobile tower cranes, crawler cranes and heavy cranes. We have decades of experience in using these to serve clients in the following key sectors:
We can make these vehicles available in any location, either as single units or as part of multi unit contract. So when you hire a crane in South London, whatever the nature or scale of your project, you can always count on a truly unrivalled service.
Ainscough Crane Hire is proud of our regularly renewed industry accreditations
