LGH News

Enerfab, Inc. was hired to complete the lifting and replacing of a conveyor tube for a coal transfer facility using rented Modulift® spreader beams from Lifting Gear Hire.   The Situation In March of 2015, a 135-foot long conveyor belt at a utility coal transfer facility along the Mississippi River caught fire. The fire buckled […]

Organized and hosted by Lifting Gear Hire, the 3rd annual fundraiser, Cosmic Bowling, is set to occur on Sunday, November 13, 2016, and promises to provide an interstellar evening of bowling, raffles, games, food, drinks, and more.   The event was created on behalf of the Transplant Village, the charitable arm of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, […]

Instead of expanding the original location to include a neighboring facility, Lifting Gear Hire has decided to relocate our Philadelphia rental center entirely to accommodate our new equipment items and ever-increasing rental fleet.   The rental center is still located in Bensalem, PA, but now its just down the street from it’s original address. The […]

Robins & Morton performed the sliding of two condenser units underneath a steam turbine tabletop using a rented HT Hydra-Slide™ Skidding System from Lifting Gear Hire.   Robins & Morton, a privately-held construction and engineering company, was hired by Tampa Electric to complete the sliding of two condenser units underneath a steam turbine tabletop in […]

Lifting Gear Hire recently added a new modular spreader beam capacity from Modulift® to it’s inventory stock: the US Mod Beam 1000x. With this addition, LGH can now offer rental services to project lifts of up to 1200 metric tons.   “The decision to add the Mod Beam 1000x to our rental fleet was an […]

Lifting Gear Hire (RentLGH.com) and Industrial Training International (iti.com) are proud to announce the first recipient of the Fundamentals of Rigging Engineering Scholarship. The scholarship is worth up to $12,000, and will allow the winner to complete the ASME approved, and LEEA accredited program in full.   The 2016 Fundamentals of Rigging Engineering Scholarship was […]

Lifting Gear Hire recently added new rental items to it’s inventory stock including new a brand new item called Collector Rings with a 150 ton rated capacity and a weight of 2,500 pounds. These 16-point Crown Collector Rings were made exclusively for LGH and comes with slings and shackles readily attached. Typical applications would include […]

The deadline for the 2016 Fundamentals of Rigging Engineering Scholarship has been extended until August 14th, 2016 to provide additional time for students to sign up.   The scholarship, which is hosted by Industrial Training International and sponsored by Lifting Gear Hire, will provide one lucky student the chance to complete the Fundamentals of Rigging […]

Industrial Training International is currently offering prospective rigging students the opportunity to win the 2016 Fundamentals of Rigging Engineering Scholarship, which will grant the winner a full ride to complete the Fundamentals of Rigging Engineering Program.   Sponsored by Lifting Gear Hire, the scholarship was created to incentivize and encourage students to continue training in […]

R. Baker & Son was hired to lift a T-38 Supersonic Jet onto flight deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum using rented MODULIFT® MOD24 spreader beams and Lift-All polyester round slings from Lifting Gear Hire.   The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum hired R. Baker & Son, a rigging and demolition […]