Contractors working on maintenance for London's Tower Bridge used four AFI niftylift booms, based on the machine's dimensions. Pyeroy Limited hired the four boom lifts from UK rental company AFI Uplift, as part of their fourt hand final stage of a three year long maintenance contract.The booms were used by Pyeroy's Special Projects Division to apply a coating of protective paint to Tower Bridge.
The road across Tower Bridge was closed to traffic each night to enable Pyeroy to paint underneath the arches of the North and South towers. AFI specified the niftylift HR12 boom for the protective coating work because weight and size were important considerations - when the machines were not in use they were stowed on the bridge's pedestrian footpath, which also had weight and width restrictions.
Weighing 3330kg and 1.60m wide, the HR12 boom has a working height of 12.2m.
Pyeroy Infra-structure Services Director Brendan Fitzsimons said that the booms were chosen due to the constraints on equipment size, as larger equipment could not have been stowed away safely. "We used the AFI boom lifts on Tower Bridge to remove old paint and apply a protective coating," sai Fitzsimons, adding "they gave our contractors the reach necessary to work safely and efficiently on the arches of the bridge."
Tower Bridge was built in 1894 and took eight years to complete. It involved five major contractors, 432 construction workers and over 11000t of steel to provide the framework for the towers and walkways.
AFI Uplift have 18 depots nationwide, including Birmingham, Hull, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes and Peterborough. The company has a rental fleet of over 4,300 pieces of equipment, ranging from boom lifts, scissors lifts, linde forklifts and mast lifts. They deal in new machines from JLG, niftylift, Upright, Skyjack and Haulotte.
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