TGM Wind’s Kardie Equipment Division Offers Bronto Skylift Units

TGM Wind Services, which has provided aerial lift services for the wind power industry since 2010, has launched Kardie Equipment as a rental division providing Bronto Skylifts for wind turbine maintenance and installation. With the launching of Kardie Equipment, the company intends to venture into industries such as oil and gas refineries and cell tower maintenance; cleaning, blade and composite repair; erosion remediation, and tower paint and rust remediation.

Michael Roth

Oct. 14, 2016

Kardie Equipment, based in Austin, Texas along with TGM Wind Services and features an inventory solely comprised of Bronto Skylift truck-mounted boomlifts going as high as 295 feet. The company currently has a fleet of 16 units ranging in height from 230 to 295 feet. The machines require special permits for transport, which the Kardie staff helps to facilitate. The company plans to expand into the 175- to 235-foot range of machines that will not require highway permitting.

Kardie Equipment is also expanding into the market of re-renting units to other rental companies

To read more about Kardie Equipment go to: http://www.liftandaccess.com/article/kardie-equipment-rents-high-reach-platforms-non-wind-work

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.