Lifting Gear Direct

Lifting Gear Direct: lifting equipment, material handling and height safety supplies

Lifting Gear Direct is a UK-based supplier and manufacturer of lifting equipment, material handling products and height safety gear. The company presents itself as a specialist in lifting gear and sells online, while also offering inspection, repair and testing services and in-house manufacture of webbing and wire rope products. Its catalogue is organised around four main areas: lifting equipment, material handling, height safety equipment and ATEX-rated equipment.

Hoists, cranes and gantry systems

The lifting equipment range covers hoists and hoisting equipment, including chain blocks and manual chain hoists, block and tackle, electric hoists, scaffold hoists, builders hoists, lever hoists, air hoists, pull winches, utility hoists, wire rope hoists, Minifor hoists and mini hoists or endless winches. It also includes crane and hoist radio remote controls. Under crane systems, the company lists jib cranes, engine and floor cranes and scaffold runway systems. Lifting gantry systems comprise mobile gantry cranes, aluminium gantries and gantry accessories.

Slings, shackles and loose tackle

The sling range includes chain slings and components, disposable one-way slings, fibre rope slings, lifting chains, pump lifting chains, round slings, wear sleeves, webbing slings and web straps, Tycan chain and components, and wire rope slings. Shackles are available as bow shackles, D shackles, specialist shackles and stainless steel shackles. Beam attachments include beam clamps and beam trolleys. Lifting accessories or loose tackle cover eye bolts, gin wheels and rope pulleys, snatch blocks and sheave blocks, and swivel eye bolts.

Load restraint, winches and plate lifting

For load restraint and recovery, the catalogue lists cam buckle straps, load binders, ratchet straps and lashings, tie down rope and car transporter wheel straps. Cable pullers include economy cable pullers, Tirfor winches and Yale cable pullers. Winches are represented by wire rope winches. Plate lifting equipment includes lifting magnets and plate lifting dogs. Lifting clamps cover C hooks, lifting grabs, plate lifting clamps and special lifting clamps. Stage hoists and rigging equipment are grouped under entertainment hoists and winches.

Hydraulic lifting, load weighing and wire rope

Hydraulic lifting equipment includes hydraulic bottle jacks, hydraulic cylinders, hydraulic fittings, hydraulic pumps, toe jacks and aluminium floor jacks, and hydraulic tools. Load weighing equipment comprises shackle load cells, crane scales and tension load cells. Wire rope products cover crane ropes, security cables, stainless steel wire rope, wire rope fittings, galvanized steel wire rope, catenary wire kits, winch cable and theatre cable. Subsea lifting equipment is also listed as a category.

Material handling and forklift attachments

The material handling section includes load moving equipment such as pallet stackers, machine skates and load moving skates, pallet trucks, scissor lift tables, pallet trucks with scales, hydraulic lift tables and static lift platforms, crane forks and furniture movers. Drum handling equipment includes drum lifting equipment, drum trucks, drum trolleys and drum dollies, forklift-mounted drum handling and drum rotators. Forklift attachments cover forklift extensions, hook attachments, jib arms, tipping skips, fork protection, brush and sweeper attachments, and snow ploughs and scrapers.

Other material handling lines include open top, closed top and construction lifting bags, special lifting bags, solar panel lifting equipment, lifting beams and spreader beams, tool balancers, FIBC bulk bag lifting, container lifting and container lifting lugs, and gas bottle trolleys, cylinder lifting and gas cylinder storage solutions.

Height safety and ATEX equipment

Height safety equipment includes safety harness kits, safety harnesses, safety harness lanyards, fall arresters, safety harness connectors, height safety anchorage, ATEX height safety equipment and safety access platforms. The ATEX-rated range comprises ATEX lifting hoists, ATEX beam trolleys and ATEX spring balancers.

Services, brands and purchasing

Beyond supply, Lifting Gear Direct states that it manufactures webbing and wire rope products and offers lifting equipment repairs and testing, along with lifting gear inspections. The site also includes custom jib crane and custom gantry enquiry forms. The shop-by-brand section lists Delta, Yale, Camlok, Cartec, Cromox, Crosby, Demag, Dini Argeo, Donati, Dtec, Dynafor, Eclipse, Enerpac, George Taylor, GIS, Gunnebo, Harris Walton, Hiforce, Imer, JDN, Kito, Kratos, Kuplex, Liftket, Misia, Pewag, Pfaff, Raptor, Red Rooster, Ridgegear, Riley, RUD, Stahl, Straightpoint, Street, TEA L'Europea, Tecpos, Thiele, Tiger, Topal, Tractel, Verlinde, William Hackett, Yoke and Pafbag.

The online store highlights fast delivery, low prices, trade accounts and a 30-day refund policy. Featured products listed at the time of writing include a solar panel lifting bag at £522.00, a Delta DEH electric hoist at £1,260.00, a 1000 kg mobile A-frame gantry crane at £1,511.23, a 500 kg under-braced swing jib at £2,790.17, Pafbag solar panel lifting bags at £612.00 and an L'Europea HE 200 scaffold hoist at £713.87. Bestsellers include the Delta DEH electric hoist, the Delta DEH electric hoist with trolley, the Delta DY chain block, the Delta lever hoist and the Yalelift 360 chain block.