Lift rental in Gausdal

Barns and farm buildings in Follebu and on the valley sides

Gausdal is a farming community, and many of the lift jobs here are on farms. An old barn has tall walls and a large roof, and there is rarely room for scaffolding all the way round. With a lift you can paint or stain the walls, replace roof sheets, straighten a gutter or replace a window high up on the barn bridge.

Several farms are putting solar panels on the barn roof. The installer then needs a lift that reaches above the eaves and has room for both people and materials on the platform. A boom lift gives long outreach, while a trailer lift is enough for most ordinary barn walls.

The yard is often gravel or grass. After a lot of rain the ground can be soft, and the lift should then stand on a firm surface or be on tracks.

Segalstad bru and the centre

Segalstad bru has shops, offices, schools and other public buildings. Here the work is more about maintaining facades, signs, lighting and windows, and work on gutters and downpipes. Many of the buildings are surrounded by tarmac, which makes it easy to set up a trailer lift.

Inside gyms, halls and community venues, scissor lifts are used when lights need changing or something needs hanging from the ceiling.

At schools and other buildings where people come and go, the area under the lift must be cordoned off. If you can, schedule the job for an afternoon or a holiday, when fewer people are around.

Further up the valley

Gausdal is a long municipality. From Follebu and Segalstad bru the valley continues into Østre and Vestre Gausdal, all the way to Espedalen. The further in you go, the more scattered the buildings and the longer the transport. Give us the address early and we will look at how best to get the lift there.

Many of the houses along the Gausa are older timber houses with high foundations and steep roofs. The gables are higher than they look from the ground, so it is worth measuring before you order.

The cabins at Skei

Up at Skei, by Skeikampen, there are cabins of many sizes. The terrain is more hilly than down in the valley, and driveways can be narrow. A tracked lift gets onto plots like these more easily. Our 18-metre tracked lift has outriggers and reaches over most cabin roofs, and the 12-metre one levels itself on slopes.

Many cabins there have large areas of glass and high ridges, and bargeboards and gutters are the most common jobs. For a cabin with flat parking, a small trailer lift is often enough. You will find more about cabin jobs there on the page about lift hire at Skei and Skeikampen.

Take the lift with you yourself

Gausdal is close enough that many people collect the lift themselves. The light trailer lifts can be towed by an ordinary car. Whether a B licence is enough or you need BE depends on the weight. Check the guide to towing a trailer lift before you come.

You get instruction when you collect. If you have not operated a lift before, we show you the outriggers, emergency lowering and how to control the platform.

Plan the job outside the busy farming seasons

In spring and during haymaking the farms are busy, and there is rarely time to stand in a lift. Late autumn and early spring are often better times for maintaining farm buildings. Call +47 948 87 000, tell us what needs doing and how high it is, and we will find the lift.

If you have several things to do on the farm, such as painting the barn, replacing gutters on the farmhouse and straightening a bargeboard on the storehouse, you can combine everything in the same rental period. The lift then stays in the yard until you are finished, and you do not have to collect it several times.