Easi UpLifts opens Manchester Depot

Easi UpLifts has opened a new depot in Manchester as part of its UK/European expansion programme.

The new 1,400 square metre/15,000sqft depot, previously an A-Plant location, will provide a better service for our access customers in North West England, one of the busier industrial areas in the UK. The new location takes the Easi Uplift UK network to five locations out of 11 across Europe.

Managing director John Ball said: “Manchester is a vital industrial hub in the UK and establishing a direct feed between our Super Depot in Dublin and this vibrant commercial region is a key element in driving forward our UK and European business strategy.”

“Using a safe modern fleet, efficient working practices and up-to-date technologies, Easi UpLifts’ customers in the North West can avail of a one-stop-shop on their doorstep to cater for all their access needs.”

The new location is:
Unit 8
Kennedy Road
Chaddock Lane
Astley
Manchester M29 7JY
Tel: +44 (0)1942 877 439
Fax: +44 (0)1942 878 249
Email: manchester@easiuplifts.com

Easi UpLifts shortlisted for IAPA Access Rental Company of the Year

The International Awards for Powered Access (IAPA) has selected the Easi UpLifts and Height for Hire Group as one of the five finalists for Access Rental Company of the Year.

The awards are jointly organised by Access International and International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) to celebrate best practice and excellence in the powered access industry.

More than 100 entries were received, the highest number since the awards were inaugurated in 2009.

The judges were: Roger Bowden, owner/founder, Niftylift, UK; Gerhard Hillebrand, IPAF Italy representative; Murray Pollok, managing editor, Access International; Steve Shaughnessy, IPAF president; and Mike Watts, chairman/founder, Sunstate Equipment, US.

Winners will be announced at the IPAF Summit on 14th April in Amsterdam. Congratulations to everyone and well done on a fantastic team effort.

Height for Hire and Easi UpLifts face hairy issues!

The Mo Bros of Height for Hire and Easi UpLifts are busy grooming and preening themselves as Movember approaches.

Movember (the month formerly known as November) is a worldwide moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men's health.

This year the gentlemen at Height for Hire and Easi UpLifts have formed moustache growing teams in Ireland and the UK respectively to raise awareness and money for prostate cancer.

Spokesman for the Height for Hire team, Anthony Burton said that the team’s motivation was "to do a lot of great work for charity, just like Nicey and Smashey”, while Easi UpLifts spokesman Gerard Jennings commented that their team just wanted “to change the face of men’s health.”

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in Ireland and the UK. Money raised will help support The Irish Cancer Society’s Action Prostate Cancer Initiative and The Prostate Cancer Charity in UK with their efforts to create awareness, fund research, and provide increased support for those affected by prostate cancer.

If you would like to donate to either the Height for Hire Mo Bros in Ireland or the Easi UpLifts Mo Bros in the UK, you can donate at the following links:

Height for Hire Mo Bros, Ireland
Easi UpLifts Mo Bros, UK

You can follow the agony and the ecstasy of our team’s moustache growing efforts on the Height for Hire Facebook page and the Easi UpLifts Facebook page.

As the Movember philosophy goes, every man deserves to grow a little piece of luxury!

U2 Can Hire a Genie!

Height for Hire, Ireland's premier access platform rental company, helped set up the Claw Stage for Bono and the boys using Genie S-125 boom lifts at U2's Croke Park gig in Dublin, June 2009.

The Genie S125 has superior outreach of 24.40m (80ft) and comes with a large basket providing a safe working load of 227kg (500lb).

Ireland's sister company Easi UpLifts also supplies a wide range of large articulated and telescopic boom lifts in the UK, including JLG 1350SJP, Genie Z-135/70 and JLG1250 AJP.

Check out our specialised machines, telehandlers and truckmounts for a range of access solutions to suit all your event management needs.

Find the depot closest to you at our Find us section and make a call for a free site survey.

Preventative Maintenance at Height for Hire

Preventative maintenance is the key to longer life for your access machinery. It is also a legal requirement that your powered access equipment or lifting machinery receives a six-monthly inspection.

At Height for Hire Maintenance, we offer a 6-monthly maintenance service for a wide range of machinery from battery and diesel scissor lifts to articulated and stick boom lifts, as well as a range of mobile hoists including trailer-mounted and vehicle-mounted aerial platforms. We also have experienced fitters for specialised access and lifting equipment such as telescopic forklifts, mobile mini cranes, and spider machines.

Height for Hire Maintenance offers a weekly inspection service or an emergency on-site call-out. For larger building sites there is the option of on-site service accommodation, which means we can respond quickly to your hire and maintenance needs. Test certificates provided for all plant and lifting equipment.

Easi Demo Truck

Irish based international sales and rental company Height for Hire/Easi UpLifts has commissioned a new purpose built demonstration truck to take a range of industrial/institutional access lifting equipment to end users.

The initiative is one of several that the Dublin based company is investing in as part of its plan to build its business through the current recession, which has been particularly tough in Ireland. The three executive directors Harry McArdle, John Ball and Fergus McArdle said that the company is looking at a range of other initiatives, which include stepping up its new and used equipment sales business, opening a new location in London and the expansion of its rental business in Slovakia.

The fully enclosed truck has been fitted with a powered tail ramp to allow all products to easily climb onto the bed, while the canvas sides of the vehicles serve as huge advertising hoardings promoting the brands inside.

Once the truck arrives on site, the sides can easily and quickly be rolled back to allow the customers to see the equipment on board. While the mix of equipment is likely to change, it currently includes a Maeda spider crane, JLG Toucan mast boom, Genie GR20 Runabout and a Genie GS1932 scissor lift.

Padraig Miney, has been appointed as on-site sales and demonstration specialist and will drive the truck, carry out the demonstration and hopefully make the sale, whether that be a hire or sale – new or used.

One advantage Miney will have is the wide range of solutions he can offer ranging from a scaffold tower to a 70 metre Bronto truck mount, to relatively new second hand equipment to short or long term rentals.

The demonstration vehicle will be based at Height for Hire's all new four acre premises in Ashbourne, Co Meath, north of Dublin.

High 5:Mini Crane Training and Testing at 5 locations!

Easi UpLifts Group are the first CPCS Test Centre to offer the A66 Compact Crane test at 5 locations across the UK and Ireland. Already offering IPAF, PASMA and FAS registered training courses, EasiUpLifts are working towards making all locations a 'one stop shop' not just for hire, sales and service, but training too!

Fergus McArdle, Managing Director of Easi UpLifts Mini Cranes says "From our experience hiring cranes and MEWPs, we recognised that most of our customers preferred not to have to travel long distances for training, so we decided to rollout the CPCS Test Centres right across the UK and Ireland. Our courses can be tailored to suit the client's needs, test only or full training package, and with our 5 locations customers don't have to travel far to find us."

The CPCS one day test for compact cranes is available at all 5 locations, as well as an optional training package to prepare candidates for the test. IPAF and PASMA training is provided at all centres.