Crane hire · Contract lifts · Heavy lift projects
Mobile cranes from 30 to 1,250 tonnes, engineers who plan the lift and crews who deliver it, day or night, anywhere in the UK. The Baldwin family has been lifting since 1957.
Baldwins Crane Hire LtdIndependently audited. Members of the schemes your project specifies.
01Two ways to hire
Every Baldwins crane arrives maintained, tested and certificated, with an operator assessed on that make and model. The difference between CPA Hire and a CPA Contract Lift is who plans and controls the lift.
30sLifting requirements check
Five questions from our lifting requirements checklist. If the answer to any of them is no, the lift should be fully contracted.
0 of 5 answered
Answer all five to see our recommendation.
Not sure about any of them? That's what our hire desk is for: 01753 211270.
Get a quote02The fleet
A modern, owner-operated fleet of Liebherr, Grove, Demag and Tadano cranes: city all-terrains that fit through a tight site gate, up to heavy lifters that arrive with their own ballast convoy. Pick a class, then a crane.
Our heavy cranes travel with their own support: STGO Cat 3 ballast vehicles, low loaders, beam trailers and SPMTs, with route surveys and notifications handled in-house. Strategic depots keep transport time down and working time up.
Not sure which crane you need? Send us the load weight, radius and lift height and our engineers will specify it.
Ask an engineer03Heavy lift & projects
Our Projects & Engineering team plans and runs complex lifts for principal contractors, freight forwarders, ports and utilities, with the cranes, transport and people under one roof.
Port of Tilbury · for Deugro · 2023
Our Projects and Marine team discharged two Super Grid Transformers bound for National Grid substations from a vessel at Tilbury. The berths there run at capacity seven days a week, so the real challenge was rigging, lifting and de-rigging a crane this size inside the berth window.
HS2 & National Grid · Birmingham · 2023
Enabling works and planning started months before the lift. Our engineers worked with the client's technical team on a scheme that met the operational requirements of HS2 and National Grid and a stringent temporary works brief. The contract lift used our Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1, and project stakeholders congratulated Baldwins on its part.
Read the project
PD Ports Hartlepool · 2024
Repeated visits through the first quarter of 2024 with our Liebherr LTM 1450, LTM 1500 and LTM 1800, discharging cable reels and project cargo for principals, forwarders and equipment manufacturers. Attention to detail from first enquiry to completion.
04Engineering
Our in-house Technical Engineering team of CAD technicians, Appointed Persons, lift supervisors and slingers designs each lift around your load, your site and your programme, using the latest CAD, load-indication and manufacturer software.
The load, the ground, the access and what's overhead, before we choose the crane.
CAD lift drawings, load charts, method statement and risk assessment, to BS 7121.
Crane, ballast and STGO transport, with route surveys and notifications handled.
Appointed Person, lift supervisor, slinger signaller and operator, all working to one briefed plan.
The load lands, the crane de-rigs and your site is handed back. Done right.
05Sectors
From city-centre construction to nuclear power, we work to the standards each industry demands, and carry the audits to prove it.
Site set-up, steel erection, plant rooms, rooftop units and tower crane erection, for every phase of the build.
RISQS-audited, PTS-trained crews for possessions, bridge replacements and station works.
Audited under Achilles UVDB (B2) for nuclear, gas, solar, wind and marine energy projects.
Connecting land and sea: heavy lift, project cargo and specialist transport at UK ports.
Transformers, plant and machinery, moved and installed with STGO transport, SPMTs, jacking and skidding.
Cradle-to-grave delivery of industrial plant and structures: engineering, transport and lifting under one banner.
Continuity of service, price and people for the life of a project, a maintenance contract or an annual shutdown.
Incident recovery with the right crane and engineering, around the clock.
06Safety & accreditations
Our Integrated Management System builds safety, health, environment and quality into the way we work. It's certificated to ISO 9001:2015 by SOCOTEC, a UKAS-accredited body, and driven by data: when something goes wrong, we find the root cause and fix it for good.
First certified in January 2014, with a full programme of internal and external audits ever since.
Our management system and site activities are audited under the Achilles RISQS and UVDB schemes.
Every operator is assessed on each make and model they drive, then reassessed annually, and trained for work at height.
Anyone can raise a safety concern in confidence through CIRAS, and every incident is investigated to its root cause.
Proud to support the Lighthouse Club’s Help Inside the Hard Hat fundraising, for the construction industry charity.
07Coverage
Cranes and crews work from depots across London and the Home Counties, South Wales, Yorkshire and the North West, so less of your hire is spent on the road. Our heavy cranes travel nationwide.
08Careers
Our workload is growing, and so is our team. We're looking for people who take pride in doing the job right.
The trainee route, typically 6 to 8 months
09Questions
Can't see yours? Our hire desk answers the phone 24 hours a day.
Talk it through01753 211270With CPA Hire you take responsibility for planning and controlling the lift: you supply the Appointed Person, the lift plan and the lifting team, and we supply a maintained, certificated crane with a competent operator. With a CPA Contract Lift we take on that responsibility: we supply the Appointed Person, plan the lift and organise and control the operation. All our equipment is supplied in accordance with the relevant CPA conditions.
The weight and size of the load, the radius and height you need to lift to, the site postcode, access and ground conditions, and your dates. Drawings or photos help. If you don't have every detail, call the hire desk and our engineers can advise.
Yes. If you don't have insurance covering the crane, the load and the surrounding structures, we can offer cover through our insurers. Speak to the hire desk or our sales team.
Yes. Our hire desk runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and our national emergency response team handles incident recoveries around the clock on 07747 036831.
The whole of the UK. Our cranes and crews work from depots in West London, East London, Westcott, Newport, Barnsley and Warrington, and our heavy cranes travel nationwide.
Yes. We're audited under RISQS for rail and Achilles UVDB (B2 audit) for utilities and energy, our management system is certificated to ISO 9001:2015, and we're SafeContractor and Constructionline accredited. Staff on rail projects are PTS trained and have completed the Industry Common Induction.
Heavy cranes travel with supporting heavy transport for their ballast and ancillaries. Our STGO Cat 3 vehicles, low loaders and beam trailers handle that, and we carry out route surveys and notifications. Your site needs enough room to deliver and set up the ancillaries; we'll check this at survey.
Yes. Project contracts give you continuity of service, price and people for the life of a project, and service level agreements cover maintenance contracts and annual shutdowns across the country.
10Get a quote
Two quick steps. The more we know, the faster we can price it, and our hire desk will call you to confirm the details.
All equipment supplied in accordance with the relevant CPA conditions.
