Spotted earlier today in Taunton, UK a gutter walker six metres up
10.03.2009
The two aerial lifts stranded on a roundabout in Hemel Hempstead, UK, were liberated in the early hours of this morning.
A suspended platform collapsed today in Sydney dumping its two young occupants. One, wearing a harness escaped injury, the other with no harness died.
A crane operator escaped injury yesterday after his crane boom came into contact with high tension power lines thanks to knowing to stay put.
We have the first photograph of Grove’s new 55 tonne trailer mounted GSK55 crane.
09.03.2009
A Genie TZ34-20 trailer lift has been stolen from a site in Melton Mowbray, UK, please keep an eye out for it.
The Skylift division of Nationwide Platforms’ has taken delivery of the first of two 58 metre Ruthmann truck mounted lifts with TV/Film attachments.
Our email and message service was running overtime this weekend with at least four crane accidents reported.
08.03.2009
Skyjack parent, Linamar has published its full year 2008 results which indicates a 14% drop in revenues for the year, 46% in the fourth quarter, while profits dropped 46%.
07.03.2009
A self propelled boom lift travelling on the back of a low loader struck and brought down a footbridge in Maitland, near Newcastle Australia earlier this week.
A man was crushed to death by a falling crane at a building site in Hampstead, London today, we have very little detail on the crane or what happened.
06.03.2009
The judging has taken place in the big charity moustache growing competition. Did Jonathan Till of GT Access win?
Two men died yesterday when an aerial lift tipped over in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
Oklahoma, USA has decided that crane operators do not need to be licensed.
We wrap up our on line coverage of the ARA with a couple more new products in the access and lifting sector,
The IPAF summit in Dublin on April 2nd looks set to attract a record number of North American attendees.
05.03.2009
Terex Corporation chief executive Ron DeFeo has declined a $1.17 million annual bonus
H&E Equipment, has reported fully year 2008 revenues up 6.5% while profits slipped 34 percent. The fourth quarter however was less rosy with the company reporting a small loss due to goodwill write downs.
Spiderlift rental specialist, The Spiderlift Company, part of the Ranger Group, has made five new appointments.
P Colohan and Company of Croydon was prosecuted after the death of an employee, killed when an excavator bucket fell from a crane.
Haulotte-Bil-Jax has decided to go ahead with the launch of an alloy scaffold tower product and launched the effort at this weeks ARA
Continuing with our visit to this years ARA, Here is a round up of some of the products and stands we missed yesterday.
Readership of Vertikal.Net broke all records in February, in spite of the fact that it is the shortest month of the year.
04.03.2009
A tower crane came crashing down across a road in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, striking two cars and injuring the operator and the driver of one of the cars.
