Case Studies

High-Tech Property Maintenance

High-Tech Property Maintenance

Posted on 06/12/2023

Construction and maintenance company Hi-Tech Property Services, in Fareham, Hants, had developed a strong reputation maintaining and refurbishing commercial properties in the south and south west of England

Morris's Grounds Maintenance

Morris's Grounds Maintenance

Posted on 09/06/2023

Morris’s Grounds Maintenance was given the task of removing mature ash trees from around a 14th Century Welsh castle – with the clear instruction to not let branches or tree trunks fall against the ruined structure.

J Todd Plant Services

J Todd Plant Services

Posted on 27/05/2020

J Todd Plant Services was awarded a contract to maintain three biogas plants in Fife, in East Scotland. Tasks it needed to carry out included routine inspections and maintenance of pipes, valves, mixers and pumping systems, some located at height. The company needed an access platform that...

Height Platforms

Height Platforms

Posted on 27/05/2020

Height Platforms was the first access rental company in Ireland to take the bi-energy Hinowa Lightlift 33.17 Performance IIIS tracked spider platform. The company, with depots in Naas, Dublin and Cork, bought the platforms to meet growing demand for tracked spider booms to support high-ris...

R&J Hogg

R&J Hogg

Posted on 27/05/2020

R&J Hogg is a fifth-generation family business based in Suffolk and has worked on more than 200 churches in East Anglia. In one project, it was commissioned to carry out a survey of the underroof of a 600-year-old church in Bunwell, Suffolk. The door into the church was narrow and spac...

Tree Fellas Devon

Tree Fellas Devon

Posted on 06/01/2020

Tree Fellas Devon is an arborculture specialist delivering tree pruning, dismantling and felling services across Devon. It uses the Hinowa Lightlift 20.10 tracked spider crane to carry out almost all its services. The company was commissioned to reduce (prune) an oak tree, protected by a t...

Access 2 Trees

Access 2 Trees

Posted on 02/01/2020

Access 2 Trees is an arborculture specialist in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. The company was commissioned to cut back medium-sized trees and large bushes along a boundary between a school and care home. To carry out the work, Access 2 Trees needed to work from the care home side of the boundary...

High Performing Platform for Edinburgh-based Specialist Cleaning Company

High Performing Platform for Edinburgh-based Specialist Cleaning Company

Posted on 11/07/2019

Edinburgh-based specialist cleaning company, Keystone Preservation required a 17m access platform with low ground pressure and compact dimensions to help them remove paint and biological matter from historical buildings and stately homes...

Lightweight And Compact 17m Boom Provides Greater Accessibility For Cleaning Company

Lightweight And Compact 17m Boom Provides Greater Accessibility For Cleaning Company

Posted on 19/03/2019

Keystone Preservation required an access platform to work within hard-to-reach spaces. The Hinowa Lightlift 17.75 allowed them to operate in narrow areas whilst also holding low ground pressure...

Stafford's Historic Castle Uses Hinowa Boom under tricky conditions

Stafford's Historic Castle Uses Hinowa Boom under tricky conditions

Posted on 24/01/2019

A Hinowa Lightlift 20.10 spider lift was needed to work in a restricted area in order to inspect the walls of Stafford Castle for weather damage. The lightweight and compact lift supplied with an operator allowed the job to be carried out on a hill whilst also working flush with the walls....

Detachable basket and compact dimensions made accessing a restricted entry job site easy

Detachable basket and compact dimensions made accessing a restricted entry job site easy

Posted on 13/11/2018

A property maintenance company were supplied with a Hinowa 26.14 by Active Access for an inspection job at the rear of a building. The boom allowed work to be carried out four storeys up and its compact dimensions meant it could pass through narrow areas to reach the job site...

17m Hinowa Boom Provides New Opportunities For Oxfordshire Gardening Company

17m Hinowa Boom Provides New Opportunities For Oxfordshire Gardening Company

Posted on 30/07/2018

Company Trees & Gardens (Timber) Ltd invest in compact Hinowa Boom to allow for greater scope with jobs. With an exceptional outreach and narrow travel width of 0.8m, the Hinowa Lightlift 17.75 provided opportunity to work in more confined spaces...

Compact Lithium Hinowa Boom Allows for Work In Churches & Abbeys

Compact Lithium Hinowa Boom Allows for Work In Churches & Abbeys

Posted on 11/04/2018

Avon Access, a specialist access rental company needed a tracked boom that would be suitable for indoor use. The Hinowa Lightlift 20.10 IIIs Lithium allowed for quiet operation when working in places of worship...

Jane Brooks Decorators Invest In Hinowa Boom For Its Exceptional Outreach And Performance

Jane Brooks Decorators Invest In Hinowa Boom For Its Exceptional Outreach And Performance

Posted on 12/03/2018

Company Jane Brooks Decorators needed to upgrade to a boom with more outreach, allowing them to have greater accessibility for jobs. The Hinowa Lightlift 23.12 offered them a solution with a maximum outreach of 11.4m whilst also being lightweight and transportable... 

Emissions-Free & Quiet Hinowa Boom Lift Required For Top London Hotel

Emissions-Free & Quiet Hinowa Boom Lift Required For Top London Hotel

Posted on 25/01/2018

Cannon Access were asked to provide an access platform that was quiet, emissions-free, lightweight to work outside an exclusive London hotel to reach the courtyard, where operators could be elevated to re-plant window boxes outside guests’ rooms...

Hinowa mini-dumper makes light work for Dorset landscaping company

Hinowa mini-dumper makes light work for Dorset landscaping company

Posted on 23/11/2017

Dorset Design & Build (DBB) is a leading south coast landscaping company. It required a stand-on mini-dumper for shifting materials such as sand, gravel, earth, or shingle from one work site location to another

Lithium-Ion powered spider lifts provide emissions-free solution for indoor maintenance

Lithium-Ion powered spider lifts provide emissions-free solution for indoor maintenance

Posted on 20/11/2017

Independent plant hire company, Fast Plant required battery-powered access platforms for emissions-free working at height for maintenance and cleaning work in atriums, such as those found in shopping centres  

Compact Hinowa spider lift helps conservationists on National Trust site

Compact Hinowa spider lift helps conservationists on National Trust site

Posted on 21/09/2017

Conservationists working for the National Trust required a lightweight and compact access platform to enable brickwork replacement at the top of the tower at Ightham Mote, which was built during the Wars of the Roses.