Emergency dismantlement, cranage, and rigging of 30t crosshead press via a challenging roof lift of 18m enabled Big Red Rigging delivered to the unit to Alrode for highly specialised welding repairs and return. Very grateful for the safe, on-time, in-budget services of a heavy press integral to sustainable Hulamin operations. Excellent service partner with heavy lifting, specialised over-dimensional transport, and placement of 6t - 60t boilers, providing mutually beneficial good value consistently over 16 years. Regarded as part of the BIP family.

The recent removal of three 5t weighbridge deck sections, which were giving erroneous loadcell under-readings of feed loads attributable to structural flexing, were repaired and craned back into position - with positive results. Variable losses of feed income have been solved.

I have been working closely with Big Red Rigging on bulk milk cooling tank as well as dairy parlor steelwork installations. Great, pleasant staff who are trustworthy and reliable, coupled with fair competitive pricing.

Critical deliverables to the installation of bulk milk cooling tanks, sizing from 5 000 - 33 000L, is the responsibility placed on Big Red Rigging to transport, deliver and install these tanks between successive milkings 6 hours apart, piped and commissioned, on large herd dairy farms. With 100% success record, we only use Big Red Rigging reliable services as the livelihood of client dairies depends on on-time availability milk cold storage operations.

Since 2003 we have worked closely with the Big Red Rigging team and management on numerous capital projects, including rotatory dairies, milk tank deliveries, and installations, Optimix feed wagons, grales, etc - all with excellent outcomes.

Cranage, rigging and elevated installation of 30 000L silos through the roof into the factory production area and containerized generators in complicated placements under powerlines - all done expertly within tight deadlines.

Regular change out of 6H - 12H fillers and installation of yoghurt tanks via the roof directly into production areas have become a skills competency of Big Red Rigging as our first choice rigging specialists. The work crew is fast, courteous, friendly and always leave the dairy processing facility clean and neat.

The foremost dairy product processing facility in the country requires frequent change-outs and upgrades to machinery and tanks. Big Red Rigging fills these requirements with some unique rigging techniques via a sidewall opening at 15m elevation.

Due to restricted roof headspace, Big Red Rigging managed an impressive complicated tandem lift and installation of a vertical 80 000L barrel oil storage that is crucial to meet the rapidly expanding demand for Truda Snacks.

A multinational with heavy presses, calendars and mills for rubber production demands a high level of rigging skills and knowledge of moving >45t items inside ``live`` factory environments. For the past 10 years Big Red Rigging has fulfilled these demands with excellence, and continue to partner Dunlop with its heavy capital lifts in a pleasant interactive manner.

Stripping, relocation and installation of an Easter egg production line was a recent challenging, successful project at Beacon Sweets Chocolate factory.

A true multinational with carpet production operations on many continents. Big Red Rigging not only containerises redundant lines for shipment to sister locations, but also cranes and rigs in new high-tech tufting machines.

Conjoint removal and defraying of redundant, decommissioned stainless steel machinery and equipment rigged out from a list of multinational manufacturers - quickly and efficiently - and offering the best international steel prices.

Two decommissioned redundant 190t Krupp portal jib crane structures, badly corroded and unsafe at portside, were successfully and safely dismantled from 80m height to ground and scrapped by skilled riggers and tandem lift 400t mobile cranes. Erratic elements of wind gusts and rain added complexity. SAS chose Big Red Rigging based on reputational safety and service. Removal of the two 55-year-old Krupp cranes facilitates the building of a new state-of-the-art shipbuilding yard.

Emergency dismantlement, cranage, and rigging of 30t crosshead press via a challenging roof lift of 18m enabled the Big Red Rigging to deliver the unit to Alrode for highly specialised welding repairs and return. Very grateful for the safe, on-time, in-budget services of a heavy press integral to sustainable Hulamin operations.

A longstanding partnership involving the transport of oversize stainless steel tanks and raw milk silos from Kuils River to KZN, delivery and installation for many key manufacturers who have all expressed complete satisfaction with Big Red Rigging workmanship.