Access Hire can range from the provision of basic timber and aluminum ladders through to powered access solutions, like cherrypickers. All the way through to mini cranes, tower cranes and telebooms.

Very often householders need  a specific access solution and it is not worth the expense to purchase the item. An example may be access to their roof, and they need to hire a roof ladder. The same problem exists even for professional builders. They may have a contract on and for one or more particular tasks they need a powered access solution as to try without would be dangerous.

Cherrypickers and Scissorlifts are some of the most popular Powered Access Hire pieces of equipment for this reason.
For large contracts sometimes large civil engineering contractors are working in places away from their depots and it would not make sense to use Plant Haulage to transport all of their powered access equipment, even if they had required stocks.

Imagine the number of Cherrypickers required for example when a engineering firm wins the contract to repair and replace all of the streetlights for example, in a borough! As Balfour Beatty did recently in Kensington. These sort of deals are worth hundreds of millions of pounds, and the local access hire branches can all do very well out of long term access hire in these situations.

As mentioned before about smaller builders and householders, very often the equipment hire wll be on a short term basis. Maybe even for just a day, as it will be for a specific task and budgets will need to be kept an eye on.

We will discuss in later articles about operated access hire and self drive.

Cherrypickers make working at heights a lot safer and does away with the need for a ladder or scaffold towers. They are also instantly portable.