Market leading crane hire and contract lift services in Luton. Ainscough operates the UK’s largest and most diverse fleet of cranes from 30 strategic locations across the country, with safety at the heart of everything we do. We can deploy to any location, making us the only one able to provide a truly national service. Our customers also benefit from high quality planning and industry-leading expertise as part of our truly unrivalled service.
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 40 years, Ainscough have been at the centre of a wide range of sectors, serving blue chip customers with our distinctive hallmarks of diligence, efficiency and precision. Every one of these lifting services is delivered by the most knowledgeable, trusted and experienced experts in the lifting industry, including teams of crane operators, lift operatives and engineers, contract lift managers, and health and safety officers.
This combined pool of in-house talent and expertise enables us to tackle all areas of a project, offering planning and engineering services of the very highest quality. Whether you want to hire a crane in Luton on an ad hoc basis, or you want multiple vehicles for longer term, larger scale projects, you can rely on Ainscough Crane Hire to provide all the reliability, availability, expertise and capability you need.
Our contract lift solutions cover a range of services in which Ainscough experts can undertake responsibility for all aspects of the lift, from the initial consultation right through to the final execution. During the initial design stage, we typically use market leading CAD software or BIM modelling to scope the exact requirements of the project, and from there we can handle the 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 at Ainscough, giving you the peace of mind to ‘Make the Safe Choice’ with contract lifts in Luton.
With one of the UK’s largest and most diverse fleets at our disposal, we have a wealth of experience with serving customers in the following key sectors:
When you hire a crane from us, you can rest assured that our wide range of mobile tower cranes, crawler cranes and heavy cranes are at your disposal, either as single units or as part of a multi unit project. Whatever the task at hand, you can count on Ainscough Crane Hire to provide all the reliability, expertise, availability and capability you need.
Ainscough Crane Hire is proud of our regularly renewed industry accreditations