Ashdown Spider Lift Hire

07/09/2026

💥Exciting Stork News💥

One of these guys is ' John the Stork ' named after yours truly From the 2025 ringing season. He has just been spotted near the France / Spain border in a massive group of 80 birds.

Glad to know he's doing some great Storking and living his best life.

25/08/2026

Does anyone have any 5.5m heavy duty loading ramps for hire. I need to get the MEWP down these steps. As close to Crowborough as possible. Unfortunately my usual supplier can't help...

09/07/2026

01/07/2026

Work smarter, not harder (and always safer!). 🛠️

​Team work with T.C.Woodgate Tree surgery today, using the Teupen 21GT Spiderlift to safely take down two massive, decaying ash trees.

Climbing wasn't an option on these structurally compromised trees, but the Spiderlift made light work of a tricky situation.

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30/06/2026

I was worried about this one today, the job relied on my survey being correct 😬 Luckily the Teupen 21GT is blooming amazing and the set up went as planned.

Spiderlifts are amazing!

If you need operated hire of an awesome Spider MEWP then give me a shout!

07874826745

www.ashdownspiderlift.co.uk

17/06/2026

Helping out at with the ! 🪺✨

​How do you ring a stork chick in a hard-to-reach nest?

Enter: the Spider Lift... and an IKEA bag! 🛒🦅 (Turns out, it’s the absolute perfect size for a growing stork).

​Here’s how the process works:

1️⃣ Carefully lower the chicks down in their high-fashion blue bag.
2️⃣ Measure, health-check, and fit them with a unique ID tag.
3️⃣ Return them safely to the nest—all in under 10 minutes!

​Don’t worry, the parents are never far away. We always see them circling above or watching from a nearby tree, and they’re back on the nest as soon as we are on the ground. Since they use the same nests every year, they’re practically used to the annual check-up by now!

​👇 Have you ever spotted a white stork in the wild? Let us know in the comments!

For the full video check out the link below 👇

https://youtu.be/BNgjpBS1qrI?is=gGSpg0nDw4q6Y0Bk

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21/05/2026

Threading the needle on a job this week cleaning steel work on this unique property. Some sneaky manoeuvres were required to get to all areas needed.

Having the basket end mounted on this machine is legendary, why don't more machines have it??? You can really get round the back of stuff and through narrow gaps. Hopefully by the time I want a new machine someone will have done it again... (Come on 😉)

18/05/2026

Another poorly ash tree was up for removal today with .c.woodgate_tree_surgery

Lots of rot pockets in both stems made it unsafe to climb it was also pretty close to the A26 should it have failed at some point.

Overall a fun job with some big bits being whopped off!

08/05/2026

Friday fun with .c.woodgate_tree_surgery in today.

Partial removal of a row of knackered ash trees. Why the biggest tree had to be over the septic tanks??? Maybe it was well fertilised🤷

Rufus had the best day woofing at a metal horse 🤦🐶

Operated Spider Lift Hire to all trades.

www.ashdownspiderlift.co.uk