Market leading crane hire and contract lifting services in Southampton. With the UK’s largest fleet of mobile cranes operating from 30 strategic depots across the country, Ainscough Crane Hire is able to deploy to any location, making us the only one able to offer a truly national service. Whether you want to hire a crane in Southampton on an ad-hoc basis, or multiple vehicles to undertake heavier or more complex lifts, you can rely on Ainscough Crane Hire to provide all the reliability, availability, expertise 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 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.
With over 40 years in operation behind us, we’ve been providing our diverse range of lifting services to blue chip customers in a wide range of industries. Safety is at the heart of everything we do, and our experienced staff consists of the most knowledgeable and trusted experts in the lifting industry, enabling us to deliver results with diligence, precision and efficiency. Our team includes crane operators, contract lift managers, lift operatives and engineers, and health and safety officers, giving us the expertise to target all areas of a project with planning and engineering services of the highest quality
Our contract lifting solutions encompass a range of services in which Ainscough Crane Hire staff can handle all aspects of the lift, from the initial design (which we complete using CAD software or BIM Modelling) all the way through to final execution. This covers the risk assessment, method statement provision, QHSE analysis, road closure management, transport logistics, and round-the-clock management.
This planning and implementation is undertaken by our own specialist engineers and contract lift managers at Ainscough Crane Hire, giving you peace of mind in making the safe choice with a contract lift in Southampton. For particularly complex, high-risk or heavy lifts, Ainscough Crane Hire can make our services available as part of a bespoke turnkey package, tailored to your specific schedule and requirements.
At Ainscough Crane Hire, we have extensive experience in serving clients across a wide variety of sectors, including:
Each of our lifting services puts our wide range of mobile tower cranes, crawler cranes and heavy cranes at your disposal, allowing you to hire a crane as either a single vehicle or as part of a larger, multi-unit project in Southampton. Whether you require one-off mobile crane hire, industry leading project management, or comprehensive contract lifting solutions in Southampton, you can count on Ainscough Crane Hire to deliver.
Ainscough Crane Hire is proud of our regularly renewed industry accreditations
