Overview
One crane, before and
after the festival.
A large steel art installation needed raising before Forbidden Forest Festival opened and taking down once it closed, and on CPA hire Altida supplied the crane and crew for both.
The machine was the Terex AC 140 Compact, a 140-tonne all-terrain crane with the capacity and reach to handle a tall, multi-section structure on an open festival field, run throughout by a qualified Altida operator.
The customer managed the lift. Altida also supplied the 20-tonne endless slings, working across two days to the festival's own schedule — up before the gates opened and down once the festival closed.
The Brief
A towering structure, on an open field.
The installation was a large, multi-section steel structure — tall, irregular, and a long way from a standard load. It had to go up before the festival and come down after, on an open field, while other trades worked around it.
On CPA hire, the customer planned and directed the lift. The brief to Altida was straightforward: bring a crane with the capacity and reach to handle the structure safely, an operator to work it, and the rigging gear to suit.
- A non-standard load. A tall, multi-section steel structure, lifted in pieces rather than in one.
- An open festival field. A busy, shared site with other contractors working alongside.
- A fixed window. Up before the gates opened, down once the festival had cleared.
- Customer-managed. A CPA hire — the customer ran the lift; Altida supplied the crane, operator and slings.
The Approach
The right crane, and the crew to work it.
Altida supplied the Terex AC 140 Compact, a 140-tonne all-terrain crane on a five-axle carrier. It travels under its own power and sets up on the kind of open, uneven ground a festival field throws up. It gave the customer the capacity to handle the structure and the reach to lift it from a safe standing.
A qualified Altida operator ran the crane throughout, working to the customer's lift plan and direction. The 20-tonne endless slings Altida supplied gave the rigging to handle each section safely.
Set up before the festival
The AC 140 was on site ahead of the festival to help raise the installation, lifting the sections into place so the structure stood ready before the gates opened.
Dismantled after the festival
Once the festival had cleared, the crane returned to take the structure down. Working across two days, the AC 140 lifted each numbered section clear and lowered it to the deck, ready to be packed and moved off site.
The lifting gear
Alongside the crane and operator, Altida supplied the 20-tonne endless slings — the rigging the operator used to take the structure down a section at a time.
The Outcome
Up for the festival, and down after.
The installation went up before the festival opened and came down once it closed, both ends handled by the same crane and the same crew. For the customer, that meant one call to Altida for the heavy lifting at each end of the event — a 140-tonne machine and a qualified operator on hand for a structure well outside the everyday.
The same all-terrain cranes that work construction sites and restricted yards handle a festival field just as well.
