Crane Servicing with Foster Cranes
Foster Cranes provides a complete crane servicing and maintenance service designed to keep your equipment safe, compliant and performing at its best. Servicing begins from the moment a crane arrives with us and continues through inspection, maintenance, repair and testing. Our mobile service team can work on your site anywhere in the UK or carry out servicing at our Worcestershire facility.
Why Regular Crane Servicing Matters
Routine servicing is essential for maintaining both safety and performance. A well maintained crane is far less likely to suffer breakdowns or faults, which reduces downtime and helps keep projects on schedule. Servicing also ensures compliance with safety requirements and regulations, protecting both operators and the wider site. By addressing wear and faults early, servicing can extend the working life of the crane and help maintain resale value.
Key reasons to service your crane regularly include:
- Improved safety and reduced risk of equipment failure
- Consistent lifting performance and reliability
- Compliance with inspection and testing requirements
- Early identification of worn or damaged components
- Longer service life and reduced long term costs
What Our Crane Servicing Includes
Our servicing programme can be tailored to the type, age and use of your crane. Typical servicing tasks include:
- Inspection of structural, mechanical and hydraulic components
- Lubrication of moving elements such as booms, bearings and slewing mechanisms
- Checks on electrical systems, controls and safety devices
- Replacement of worn ropes, hooks, hoses, chains or seals
- Functional testing to confirm safe and consistent operation
- Full documentation of work carried out and any advisory notes
Who Our Service Is For
Our crane servicing is ideal for owners and operators who want to maintain performance, safety and compliance. It is suitable for cranes of all ages and models, whether in daily operation or used occasionally on specific projects.
Why Choose Foster Cranes
Our technical team has extensive experience across all crane types and provides honest, practical advice. We focus on delivering thorough, reliable servicing and clear communication throughout. Whether you require a single service, planned maintenance or a full inspection programme, our team is ready to help.
If you would like to arrange servicing or discuss a maintenance plan, contact Foster Cranes today.
At Foster Cranes we make sure that all of our engineers have years of valuable experience, with full factory training. This allows us to carry out quality crane servicing at all times – one reason why we are the UK’s largest supplier of quality used cranes.
We pride ourselves on providing an all-round quality crane service; from sourcing the used cranes for sale, to inspection, repairing, selling and servicing. Our team of professional “mobile mechanics” are able to offer crane servicing wherever you may be in the UK, or wherever you are carrying out work.
Our company knows the construction industry inside and out. Therefore, we realise the extent to which out of action cranes can affect your production line. That’s why we always aim to service, refurbish and repair your cranes quickly and efficiently, as to avoid as much down time as possible.
Our services for cranes are available on all types of cranes: rough terrain, truck, city, all terrain and industrial cranes. This includes spider cranes, mobile cranes, and telescopic crawler cranes, including top brands such as Leibherr and Grove. Our engineers are highly trained and all have years of experience in servicing and repairing cranes to the highest of standards.
Typical checks
Typical checks made during a used crane service include:
- Dismantling and inspection of sheaves, sockets, dead-ends, thimble joints, and all wire rope/cables
- Lubrication of wire ropes and checking of dimensions
- Checking the crane overall for deformities, cracks or corroded surface in the structure and boom
- Checking the markings are correct for the load/radius indicator
- Ensuring the correct operation of load moment indicator, boom angle indicator, boom length indicator and anti two-block system, using the manufacturer’s manual
Get in touch today
Whether you are looking for a used mobile crane, a compact crane, or the service, repair, testing or inspection of your existing crane, please contact us – we look forward hearing from you.