Leading access rental specialist GT Access has continued to renew and grow its spider lift fleet by investing in six new Hinowa tracked spider booms.
It has taken three Hinowa Lightlift 17.75 Performance IIIS platforms and three Hinowa Lightlift 20.10 Performance IIIS models.
The move is in line with the company’s strategy of providing its customers with only the best and most modern powered access rental options.
As the market leading spider lift in the UK, investing in Hinowa platforms also has key advantages for rental specialists, said GT Access Sales Director Steve Moody.
‘Sensible’ investment decision
He explained: “The whole life cost of Hinowa platforms is less than their rivals because their resale value is so much higher. So, customers are very pleased to be able to hire quality platforms, and it’s a very sensible investment decision. That’s an important win-win for us.”
GT Access has had Hinowa spider lifts in its fleet since 2011, and currently offers four models: the Hinowa Goldlift 15.70; Hinowa Lightlift 17.75; Hinowa Lightlift 20.10; and the Hinowa Lightlift 26.14 Performance IIIS.
Linda Betts, Key Accounts Director at Access Platform Sales, the UK and Ireland authorised dealer for all Hinowa machines, said: “We’d like to thank Steve and his team for continuing to put their trust in the Hinowa spider lift range.
“Hinowa works extremely hard to maintain and improve the performance standards that set its platforms apart. It means we’re confident GT Access will continue to realise the advantages that make them an excellent access rental investment choice.”
Highly compact design
GT Access’s new Hinowa Lightlift 17.75 spider booms have a maximum working height of 17.05m and a maximum horizontal outreach of 7.5m while. For the Hinowa Lightlift 20.10, the working height is 20.1m and outreach 9.7m.
Both platforms have a travel width of just 795mm and a travel height of 1996mm, so they can tracked through narrow doorways, gates and archways, and along paths to otherwise difficult-to-reach worksites.
Once in place, their outriggers can be deployed and the platforms levelled ready to operate at the touch of one button. Afterwards, the outriggers can be raised, ready for tracking in the same way.
Both also have unrestricted basket capacities of 230kg, which is appreciated by operatives, who know there are no weight limits at the outer limits of the working envelope, as there are with some rival platforms.
Height problem solver
GT Access has selected bi-energy versions of the spider lifts, powered either by low-emissions diesel engines or by cabled 110v mains electricity.
Steve Moody said: “Our Hinowa spider lifts are very popular with maintenance contractors – for working on the exterior of buildings or in office and shopping centre atriums – and with tree surgeons, among many other customers.
“They’re real working at height problem solvers. Whether that’s about tight access, unstable ground or sensitive flooring, or the need to work on complex structures. That’s what makes them so popular.”
This flexibility is enhanced by the ability of GT Access to deliver the Goldlift 15.70 and Lightlift 17.75 and 20.10 models to client sites on a lightweight trailer towed by a 4x4 car.
The Hinowa LL 15.70 platforms GT Access operate have a maximum working height of 15.4m and an outreach of 6.6m. While the Hinowa LL 26.14s have a maximum working height of 25.7m, with an outreach of 13.6m.
Extensive hire fleet
All the spider platforms share the same operating system, with the same unrestricted 230kg basket capacity, making it easy for customers to switch between platforms when different working heights are needed.
GT Access, which has its HQ in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, operates 13 depots across the Midlands, North West, London and the South East, South West and Wales.
Its extensive hire fleet includes boom lifts, scissor lifts, push-around vertical lifts, truck mounts and its Hinowa spider lifts – as well as telehandlers and forklifts.
Find out more
Talk to APS about the advantages of Hinowa spider lifts in access platform rental fleets.
Telephone 01480 891251. Email: sales@accessplatforms.co.uk
