Tall order

Painting contractor Bagnalls turned
to AFI-Uplift powered access
machines to carry out the job of
painting 80m of footbridge spanning
a river and a three lane road before
connecting to the Meadowhall
Shopping Centre at Sheffield.

The Upright SB85J and Genie
S125 straight booms have outreaches
of 23.40 and 24.40m respectively,
and working heights of 28.00 and
40.10m. AFI also supplied a JLG
450AJ articulating boom, which has
a working height of 15.72m.

Bagnalls branch manager, Richard
Britten, said: “The machines gave us
the required outreach to span the
River Don from each side and they
provided sufficient working height to
access the footbridge’s tower and
suspension lines safely.”