A year that has run further than most. Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London and Inverurie north of Aberdeen inside the same summer, Shropshire twice, an EV charging hub, a hospital plant deck and a good deal of ordinary work around Manchester in between.
18 documented jobs from 2026, each with the photograph it came from. Every job is one we actually did.
Each one is a job that happened, captioned with what it was.
On site at the Olympic Park in London, with the Orbit standing over the cab. London is planned as a two-day job rather than a day out and back, and what fixes the timing is the site's access window rather than the mileage.
The last load away from one of the newest towers in Manchester city centre. City centre work is decided by the window rather than the weight - a slot on the road, a banksman, and everything off the ground before the traffic management comes down.
A large packaged plant unit on the slings at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Hospital work is nearly always about the window rather than the weight - there is a time when the access road can be closed, and that is the time you get.
The same plant unit in the air and out at radius, with the hospital block behind it. The lorry stands in the one place it is allowed to stand and the crane covers the rest of the distance.
The same unit landed on its plinth with the slings still on. A packaged unit arrives finished and there is one position on the base that is right, so it is set, checked and levelled before anything is unhooked.
A container run up to Inverurie, north of Aberdeen. Scotland is planned as a two-day job rather than a day out and back, and it usually prices better than people expect because it pairs with a return load.
Working over the side with the boom out, on a yard in Sheffield. The Pennines are less of an obstacle than the map suggests - the M62 and the Snake put South Yorkshire inside a comfortable day.
A forty foot container lifted off the bed and swung in alongside a netted embankment. The weight is ordinary for the vehicle; what decides the job is the radius it has to be placed at.
Lengths of aluminium truss loaded and strapped in Liverpool. Long, light and easy to damage, which makes the securing more work than the lifting.
A large glazed structure on the crane at Droylsden. Glass changes the job: the load is light for its size, it will not tolerate being nudged, and the wind matters far more than it would with steel.
The boom going up and out from the street to reach past a brick boundary wall. The lorry stands where it can legally stand and the crane covers the rest, which is the whole point of the vehicle.
The same unit strapped down on the bed before anything moves. On a glazed load that is where most of the care goes: light for its size, and one knock is the whole panel.
A steel beam on the slings at Eccles, out at radius from the road — what a long boom is for on a terraced street where there is nowhere else for the lorry to stand.
A packaged kiosk building lifted off the bed at Winsford, Cheshire. Units like this arrive finished, so there is one position on the base that is right and no useful way to slide them afterwards.
The same building coming down on chains and a spreader beam with two men on the ground taking it in. Set on its plinth, checked, and the strops off.
A machine lifted off the bed at Ludlow. Lifted on and lifted off rather than driven on and off, so nothing tracks across somebody else's yard and the machine arrives clean.
A rapid charging unit on the slings, going onto its base at a charging hub. New work for us and a steady amount of it now: the units are heavy, the bases are exact, and there is rarely anywhere to stand except the bay in front.
The same hub from the road: boom out over the bays, legs down on the tarmac and the finished units in a row behind. Working across a live car park means the legs go where everybody can see them.
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