Crane Maintenance & Servicing

We build each contract around your equipment’s usage and age, setting service visits at the frequency the duty genuinely demands, and each visit systematically works through the crane. This includes checking the hoist, brakes, ropes or chains, controls, limit switches, structure and runway, with wear measured rather than eyeballed.

Adjustments and minor repairs are completed during the visit wherever the engineer’s kit allows, and anything larger is reported with a price before the work goes ahead. The record of every visit builds into a service history that supports the crane’s LOLER thorough examinations and tells you, over time, when a crane is heading toward modernisation rather than another repair.

Crane fleets are rarely one brand, and tying each machine to its own manufacturer for servicing multiplies contracts, visits and invoices. Our engineers service all types and manufacturers of cranes and powered lifting equipment, from current models to machines whose makers disappeared decades ago, sourcing parts across the market rather than from a single catalogue.

That independence matters most on older cranes, where the judgement call between repairing, reconditioning and replacing needs an engineer with no stake in selling you a new machine. We keep serviceable cranes in service, and we say plainly when one has reached the point where the money spent on it stops coming back.

Maintenance shrinks breakdowns, but nothing eliminates them, and when a crane stops, the cost runs by the hour. For our maintenance contract customers, we operate a call-out service with a 2-hour response target, because we understand the importance of the crane to your operation and the impact its failure has on everything scheduled around it.

The engineer who attends carries common failure parts, and under the contract, we already know your crane’s history, which is often the difference between a crane repair on the first visit and a second trip for parts.

With a wealth of experience and technical knowledge, our team offers advice and solutions to upgrade existing equipment, from new hoists, controls, and radio systems on a structurally sound crane to variable-speed drives that take the shock loading out of every lift. Modernisation often buys a decade of service for a fraction of the cost of a new installation.

Where the survey says the structure or the duty has genuinely outgrown the crane, the conversation moves to installing a new crane, and if you are interested in a no-obligation site survey for swing jibs, gantry cranes or runway beams, we are happy to look and tell you which side of that line your equipment sits on.