Greater Manchester · Worked from Manchester
Hiab hire in Stockport
Stockport is twenty minutes round the M60 from the yard, and a good deal of the work there is defined by the fact that the town is built on a hill and around a viaduct.
The evidence
Photographs from Stockport, not from a stock library
A refurbished cabin set-up delivered to Romiley Board Mill and lifted in from the yard, on ground with a fall across it and a mill wall on two sides.
Lifted off in a sloping yard
Swung in over the legs
Lowered onto its position
The work
What we do in Stockport
Gradient matters more in Stockport than almost anywhere else we work regularly. A lorry has to stand level to lift, and a street that looks perfectly ordinary can be too steep to set the legs on safely. Where that is the case the answer is usually to stand at the flat end and reach further, which is a planning question rather than an obstacle - but it is one worth settling before the vehicle sets off rather than when it arrives.
The rest is a familiar mix. Town-centre and Merseyway-area deliveries where the loading window is set by somebody else. Redrock and the newer developments, where units and materials go into sites with no crane of their own. And a steady run of domestic and small-commercial work in the residential areas out towards Bramhall and Cheadle: garden rooms, hot tubs, sheds, steel for extensions.
Being twenty minutes away means a Stockport job rarely needs a whole day booked out, which usually shows up in the price.
What gets booked here
Services we run into Stockport
Everything else in the fleet is available here too — the list above is simply what Stockport asks for most.
From the yard
What we bring into Stockport
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 Greater Manchester on the day you need it.
Common questions
Hiab hire in Stockport, answered
Do you actually cover Stockport?
Yes, and the photographs on this page are from jobs we have done there rather than stock images. A refurbished cabin set-up delivered to Romiley Board Mill and lifted in from the yard, on ground with a fall across it and a mill wall on two sides. Where we can show the work, we show it.
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. Stockport 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 Stockport?
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.
