Lancashire · Worked from Manchester
Hiab hire in Blackburn
Blackburn is straight up the M66 and across the M65, and the work there is mostly industrial: material into mill sites and modern units, cabins into compounds, and machinery moved between the two.
The work
What we do in Blackburn
East Lancashire has a particular kind of access problem. A great many of the working buildings are converted mills, which means solid ground and generous headroom inside, and a yard entrance designed for a horse and cart. We have taken more than one load off at the gate and carried it in on the crane because the vehicle simply was not going through, and that is a plan rather than a problem when it is known in advance.
The other recurring job is site accommodation. Compounds want their units in the right order and square to each other, and getting that wrong means the last cabin cannot reach its position without the first three being moved again. We deliver in the sequence the site wants rather than the sequence the units came off the yard.
A Blackburn job runs out and back in a day. Tell us the date and we will tell you straight away whether it is achievable rather than take the booking and work it out afterwards.
Our own work
Our vehicles, our jobs — but not photographed in Blackburn
Every photograph on this site is our own, of our own vehicles, on a job we actually did. These show the kind of work described above. We have not labelled them as Blackburn jobs, because we cannot show you a dated record for that — and a photograph captioned with a place it was not taken is worth less than no caption at all.
Strapped down before it moves
A cobbled lane and no room either side
Steel alongside the building
What gets booked here
Services we run into Blackburn
Everything else in the fleet is available here too — the list above is simply what Blackburn asks for most.
From the yard
What we bring into Blackburn
Our own lorries, our own driver / operators, our own escort vehicles and UK-wide wide load exemption notices — which is what actually gets a lift done in Lancashire on the day you need it.
Common questions
Hiab hire in Blackburn, answered
Do you actually cover Blackburn?
Yes. The photographs on this page are our own, of our own vehicles on real jobs, but we have not labelled them as taken in Blackburn because we cannot show you a dated record for that. They show the kind of work described above. Stillage racks loaded and strapped, steel alongside a stone built unit, process vessels on the bed and a wagon working a cobbled lane. Material into working buildings, which is most of what we carry in east Lancashire.
How quickly can you get there?
It depends on the day and what is already committed, but the area is regular rather than exceptional for us. There is no minimum booking notice. Email with the date and we will tell you straight away whether it is achievable, rather than take the booking and work it out later.
What does a job like that cost?
It is priced by the job, not by the mile. Vehicle size, how far out the load has to be placed, the access and the time on site move the number far more than the distance does. Everything that changes a hiab price is set out on the cost page, and you do not need to know any of those figures to ask us for one.
Where do you run from?
Our yard is at Miles Platting in Manchester - one site, our own vehicles and our own ALLMI trained driver / operators, rather than work farmed out to a local sub-contractor we have never met. Blackburn is regular running for us, and jobs are priced by the job rather than by the mile, so the distance from the yard is not a line on your quote.
A job in Blackburn?
Tell us what needs lifting and where it has to go. You will get a real answer, including if the answer is that it needs a mobile crane.
