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Crane hire, wind and contract lifts.
Cranes, crews and lift planning for construction, energy and wind sites across Ireland and the EU.
01 / CRANE HIRE
Crane hire
All-terrain cranes on our own fleet, up to 700 tonnes, for construction, civils, utilities and energy work across Ireland.
- Crane selection against load, radius and site constraints
- Operators, appointed personnel and lift supervision
- Support vehicles, ballast and rigging coordination
700t maximum
The largest all-terrain crane in the current McNally’s fleet.
02 / WIND ENERGY
Wind turbine work
McNally’s first wind project was in 1999. Since then the crews have worked remote, high-wind sites across the world: Ireland and the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Greece, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, and further afield in Turkey, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, South Africa, Australia and the Falkland Islands.
- New turbine erection and installation support
- Major component exchange for blades, gearboxes, generators, nacelles and yaw rings
- Facilitating repowering, decommissioning and dismantling
- Maintenance and inspection lift support
- Rotor removal and blade transport for repair
- Decommissioning after fire damage, and recovery work on difficult sites
Wind farm decommissioning
End-of-life wind farms taken down, with major components removed for refurbishment, resale or recycling.
03 / MANAGED LIFTING
Contract lifts
The survey, the lift plan, the appointed person and the crane sit on one contract.
- Site survey and lift feasibility
- Lift plan, risk assessment and method statement
- Crane, crew, rigging and accessories
- Supervised execution and project coordination
- All required insurances
Difficult sites
Lifting on difficult ground.
The 2011 Cranes & Access feature on McNally’s highlighted deep peat, floating roads, adverse cambers and gradients up to 18% as defining challenges on Irish and UK wind sites.
Conditions
Wind speed limits and the load’s surface area are set in the lift plan before the crane goes up.
Coordination
The crane, the transport, the rigging and the site team work to the same plan.
Planning a project?
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