Overview
One team for the lift
and the move.
The customer needed plant and materials lifted out of a recycling site at Smethwick and moved to their new site in Nottingham. Altida handled both ends as one job — the crane and the transport.
The machine was the Liebherr LTC 1050-3.1, a city crane whose cab raises on a hydraulic mast so the operator looks straight down into the lift. On a tight, busy yard, that meant the operator could see the lift rather than working blind.
Lifted on the crane and set onto Altida's own low-loaders, the load ran under one supplier from the Smethwick yard to the Nottingham site, with no handover to a third party.
The Brief
Out of a live yard, and up to Nottingham.
The customer was standing up a new site in Nottingham and needed plant and materials lifted out of a recycling yard at Smethwick and transported up to it.
The brief was a single supplier for the whole move: one team to lift the machines safely out of a live recycling yard, load them onto transport, and run them to the new site — with no handover to a separate firm in between.
- A live recycling yard. Lifting out of a working site, around its own plant and traffic.
- Large machines. Heavy plant rigged on 4 × 14-tonne grade 10 chains.
- No blind lifts. A crane chosen so the operator could see straight into the lift.
- One supplier. Crane and transport from the same team, no handover at the gate.
The Approach
Planned in-house, lifted in full sight.
Altida ran the job as a full contract lift — planning the lifts in-house and crewing them with our own operator and Appointed Person. The materials came out of the yard on the crane and went straight onto Altida's low-loaders.
The machine for the job was the Liebherr LTC 1050-3.1, a compact city crane whose cab elevates on a hydraulic mast so the operator looks directly down into the lift. On a tight, cluttered scrap site, that meant no blind lifting.
Planned in-house
The lift plan and method were drawn up in-house ahead of the job, sizing the crane and the rigging to the heaviest machines on site — lifted on 4 × 14-tonne single-leg grade 10 chains.
Eyes on every lift
With the LTC 1050-3.1's cab raised, the operator worked each pick in full view of the load and the landing, rather than relying on signals alone across a busy yard.
Onto our own transport
Each machine came off the crane and onto Altida's low-loaders, ready to run straight to the new site in Nottingham — one team, no handover.
The Outcome
Off the Smethwick site, and on to Nottingham.
The plant and materials came off the site on the crane and left on Altida's own transport, bound for a new site in Nottingham. It was lifted and hauled by the same team across the job, with one point of contact for the whole move.
It is the kind of job the combined fleet is built for: a crane that removes the blind spots on a busy site, and the transport to move what it lifts, without a handover in the middle.
