Spider lift hire,
without the runaround.

Daily rates start from around £250 for a 15m machine and run to £750+ for a 40m. The honest answer is it depends on the machine, the duration, the site, and whether you need an operator. Send me the details and I will come back with a real number, not a guess. Out-of-hours and weekend work are quoted separately.

A spider lift is a tracked MEWP (Mobile Elevating Work Platform) that walks on rubber crawlers and sets up on four outriggers. It is built for tight access and ground that a truck mount or scissor can't reach. Transport widths can go under 800mm, so they fit through standard doorways. Working heights range from about 13m up to 52m on the biggest machines.

A properly set-up spider lift on a stable surface, with outriggers correctly deployed and spreader pads where the ground bearing demands it, is extremely stable. Tip-overs are almost always down to skipped outrigger checks, slopes outside the rated envelope, or moving the basket past the chassis limit. Familiarisation before the job and a sensible operator solve 99% of the risk.

Cherry picker is the everyday term most people use for any boom lift. A spider lift is a specific type, tracked rather than wheeled, with outriggers instead of a heavy chassis. The advantage is weight, footprint, and the ability to reach places a van-mounted or truck-mounted boom physically cannot get to. They are slower to set up but unlock jobs other kit can't.

Scotland to Southampton. The fleet sits across UK depots so we can deploy machines to most sites within a working day. If you're in a tight corner of the country I will tell you straight if we're the right call or not.

Both. Operated hire means the machine arrives with a trained operator and you focus on the work. Self drive means we supply the machine and your IPAF-trained operator runs it. Familiarisation is included on every self drive.