Market leading crane hire and contract lifting services in Swanscombe. Ainscough Crane Hire operates the UK’s largest fleet of mobile cranes from 30 strategic locations across the country. This makes us the only one able to provide a truly national service. We place safety at the heart of everything we do, and when you hire a crane in Swanscombe from Ainscough, you can also get the benefit of our high quality planning services and industry leading expertise. Whatever you’re planning in Swanscombe, 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.
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 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 serving blue chip customers across a range of industries using a diverse array of lifting services, all distinguished by our hallmarks of precision, diligence and efficiency. Our staff here at Ainscough Crane Hire comprise 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 allows us to tackle all areas of a project, using in-depth expertise 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.
Our contract lifting solutions comprise a range of services in which we can undertake responsibility for all aspects of the lift, from the initial consultation right through to the final execution. At the initial design stage, we use market leading CAD software and BIM modelling to scope the exact requirements for the lift. This gives us a solid foundation from which we can then move onto 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, allowing you to Make the Safe Choice with Ainscough Crane Hire. For particularly complex or high risk lifts in Swanscombe, we can even provide the option to choose several of our services in the form of a bespoke turnkey package, tailored to your exact requirements and schedule.
With a large and diverse fleet at our disposal, we have a wealth of experience in serving the following sectors:
Our fleet encompasses mobile tower cranes, crawler cranes and heavy cranes, which we can make available either as single units, or as part of a multi-unit project. Whatever the nature or scale of your project in Swanscombe, you can rely on Ainscough to deliver.
Ainscough Crane Hire is proud of our regularly renewed industry accreditations
