15 years in powered access. 10 years dedicated to spider lifts.
I started on the hire desk in 2011, taking calls when jobs went wrong. That is where you learn fast: when a standard boom is too heavy for a driveway, too wide for a garden gate, or cannot level on a 15-degree slope, the work stops cold. Tracked spider lifts were the only machines that could solve the access challenges others walked away from.
Since then, I’ve worked every side of the trade. I’ve coordinated nationwide track mount fleets under pressure for rail and telecom infrastructure (they called me “Spider-Man” across the hire desks), co-founded equipment sales companies doing factory inspections direct in Italy (TSS, later acquired by CMC UK), directed hire operations at Rise Platforms, and sat down with tree surgeons, hirers, and dealers on the All The Way Up podcast.
Today, I spend my days helping customers solve difficult access challenges across the UK with spider lifts from 15m to 40m+ and truck-mounted MEWPs. My methodology: explain problems and solutions as simply as possible, but no simpler.
I match the right machine to the specific physical challenge of the site—the outrigger footprint, the narrow pinch points, the ground bearing pressure—ensuring safe, cost-effective access that gets the job done first time.
The machine has to reach the setup area, sit on suitable ground and reach the work from there. Start with the access route, ground conditions and the working envelope.
