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Mobile & A-Frame Gantries for Portable Lifting
Aluminium and steel gantries that put a lifting point exactly where you need one — then move with you to the next job. Supplied, specified and inspected across the UK and Ireland.
Lifting Where a Fixed Crane Isn’t Practical
A mobile gantry gives you overhead lifting capability without the structure, installation cost or downtime of a permanent crane. The frame is assembled where the work is, used for the task, then dismantled, relocated or stored.
WH Scott supplies aluminium and steel gantries specified around your safe working load, height of lift and span. Aluminium frames are light enough to be moved and set up by one person; steel A-frames take higher capacities and wider spans. Manual or electric chain hoists, power supplies, castors and mounting accessories can be supplied as a complete package, and bespoke frames are available where standard sizes don’t suit the application.
Aluminium and Steel Gantries
Aluminium mobile & A-frame gantries
Modular, corrosion-resistant and quick to deploy, with safe working loads from 500 kg to 5,000 kg and adjustable height and width across the range. Lighter models can be transported and erected by a single operator in minutes, which makes them well suited to maintenance teams, mobile engineers and businesses working across several sites.
Steel A-frame gantries
Built for higher safe working loads and larger spans than aluminium allows, with a limited bolt count for straightforward assembly on site. Steel A-frame gantries are manufactured to conform with BS 2573 (rules for the design of cranes) and BS 2853 (testing of steel overhead runway beams for hoist blocks), and are supplied with a Declaration of Conformity and UKCA/CE marking.
Options and accessories
- Castors rated for movement under load, or for repositioning the frame unloaded
- Swivel castors with brakes for controlled positioning, and floor pads for static use
- Adjustable height and span, including hand-winch height adjustment
- Mini gantries for low-headroom areas
- Collapsible side frames, transport trolleys and wall brackets
- Cantilever lifting with ballast weights on steel frames
How to Specify Your Gantry
Four details usually decide the right frame. Send them over and we’ll confirm the options that suit your load, your environment and your headroom.
- Safe working load — the heaviest load you will lift, including the hoist and any lifting beams or frames used below the hook
- Height of lift — measured against the lowest headroom on the route, not only at the lifting point
- Span or beam length — the clear distance the load must travel between the uprights
- Mobility — whether the gantry must move under load, be repositioned empty, or stay static once set
Also tell us the working environment — indoor, outdoor, washdown or hazardous area — the hoist type you prefer, and whether the frame needs to break down for transport between sites.
Lifting Solutions
Part of a complete lifting range
This is one of the complete lifting solutions delivered by WH Scott across the UK and Ireland — from radio remotes, hoists and crane components to fully bespoke crane systems. Explore the full range to find the right fit for your operation.
Where Mobile Gantries Are Used
Mobile and A-frame gantries earn their place wherever lifting is occasional, temporary or spread across several locations: plant and machinery maintenance, pump and motor removal, workshop and fabrication work, vehicle and rail depots, utilities and water treatment sites, and construction or refurbishment projects.
They are also the practical answer in low-headroom areas, and in leased or listed buildings where fixing a permanent crane to the structure is not an option. Where lifting becomes routine rather than occasional, a fixed installation is usually the better investment — our team will say so if that is the case.
Compliance and Thorough Examination
A gantry and the hoist fitted to it are lifting equipment, so they carry statutory duties once in service. In Great Britain that means LOLER 1998, which requires thorough examination by a competent person at least every 12 months — or every 6 months for lifting accessories such as chains and slings, and for any equipment used to lift people. Northern Ireland applies equivalent regulations. In Ireland the duties sit under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No. 299 of 2007), with the examination reported on Form GA1.
Equipment is supplied with a Declaration of Conformity, UKCA/CE marking and test certification where applicable. Once it is in use, our inspection services team can keep it in date, with digital certificates and reminders from the same depot network that supplied it.
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Tell Us About Your Project
Whether you need a single piece of equipment or a fully engineered lifting system, our specialists can help. Tell us your load, environment and compliance requirements — we’ll do the rest.