Rent aerial work platforms and forklifts in Bordeaux

Whether a limestone facade in the World Heritage district, a hangar in Merignac or a chai in the Medoc – for projects in Bordeaux, Luibl Rental provides aerial work platforms, forklifts and telehandlers and brings them to you on its own low-loader. Around 260,000 people live in the city on the Garonne, and more than 800,000 in Bordeaux Metropole. Major projects such as Euratlantique, the aerospace industry in the west of the city and the wine trade keep demand for machines for height and load consistently high. The following sections match our rental machines to typical Bordeaux applications, explain the French operating rules and describe how the machine gets to you.

The Bordeaux metropolitan area has a broad economic base. For rental equipment, these are the main fields of application:

• Aerospace in Merignac and Le Haillan: Dassault Aviation, Thales and numerous suppliers are based around Bordeaux-Merignac Airport; in Le Haillan and Saint-Medard-en-Jalles, the space and defence industry is added. Hall maintenance, plant construction and servicing require scissor lifts and articulated boom lifts, often with electric drive for indoor use.

• Port on the Garonne: The Grand Port Maritime de Bordeaux is spread across several terminals along the Garonne and Gironde, including Bassens and Ambes. Handling of bulk and general cargo, warehouses and industrial plants need forklifts, telehandlers and telescopic boom lifts.

• Urban development Bordeaux-Euratlantique and on the right bank: Around Saint-Jean station, Bordeaux-Euratlantique is creating one of the major urban development areas in France, alongside districts such as Bassins a flot and Brazza. Telescopic and articulated boom lifts as well as telehandlers are needed for facades, glazing and material logistics in building construction.

• Wine industry in the Bordelais: Chateaux, wineries, bottling plants and trading houses in the Medoc, around Saint-Emilion and in Entre-deux-Mers use forklifts for storage and shipping as well as telehandlers for yard and construction work.

• Logistics along the Rocade: Along the ring road and the A10, A62, A63 and A89 routes lie distribution centres and business parks with demand for electric and diesel forklifts as well as scissor lifts for indoor operation.

Graded by working height and access, the selection for Bordeaux looks like this:

• Up to around 18 m on firm ground – scissor lifts: Electric models are suitable for hangars in Merignac or office floors in the Bassins a flot, diesel models with four-wheel drive for outdoor areas and earthworks sites.

• Smallest footprint – mast lifts: They fit into stairwells, shops and between the barrel stores of a chai, where a scissor lift would be too wide.

• Over obstacles – articulated boom lifts: The articulated arm reaches over balconies, cornices or plant components and achieves more than 35 m – useful on angular old building facades as well as in industrial plants.

• Maximum height and outreach – telescopic boom lifts: For high-rises in Euratlantique, bridge structures over the Garonne or silos and tanks in the port, where the basket has to be extended far over pipelines.

For the light limestone facades along the quays and in the Saint-Pierre district: an electrically driven machine works without exhaust emissions on site and quietly enough for residential streets. Our platforms are built by manufacturers including Genie and Haulotte; maintenance follows the respective manufacturer's schedule. In France there is also the statutory VGP: a competent person inspects personnel lifting equipment such as aerial work platforms every six months, as required by the arrêté du 1er mars 2004, and enters the findings in the registre de sécurité.

On the quays of Bassens, in distribution warehouses along the Rocade and between barrique cellars in the Bordelais, our rental machines lift whatever needs moving:

• Forklifts: Electric models for wineries and halls, diesel forklifts for quays and open storage, rough-terrain forklifts for vineyards and unpaved tracks.

• Telehandlers: With their telescopic boom they reach over scaffolding and wall crowns; the Manitou MT 730 H reaches 6.90 m lift height with 3,000 kg lifting capacity. In addition to machines from Manitou, you can rent telehandlers from Merlo and Magni.

Whether just for the grape harvest or for the entire construction period of a residential block in Euratlantique: the rental period depends on your project, and we bundle several machines into one package. In wineries with smooth screed floors and narrow aisles between rows of barrels, compact electric forklifts with a small turning radius prove their worth; on gravel and clay in the vineyard, a rough-terrain forklift or a four-wheel-drive telehandler is the more robust choice.

For customers in Bordeaux, three things matter above all, and we measure our service by them.

The fleet: platforms from Genie and Haulotte, telehandlers from Merlo, Magni and Manitou, often with an enclosed cab including heating or air conditioning – helpful in hot summers on the Gironde.

The handover: on site we show your staff the controls, emergency lowering and safety devices of the machine (prise en main).

The responsibility: under French law, the employer issues each operator an autorisation de conduite (Art. R4323-56 Code du travail) after ensuring appropriate training (Art. R4323-55). A CACES® R486 for platforms or R489 for forklifts is a common proof of this training, but it is not mandatory. We do not provide operating personnel – the machines are operated by your own staff.

We deliver with our own low-loader fleet directly to the site – in Bordeaux, to the Medoc peninsula, around the Bassin d'Arcachon or to other parts of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. For construction sites in the old town with no-stopping zones and tram lines, we plan the unloading point and timing with you in advance. For wine estates off paved roads, we also check in advance whether the low-loader can use the access route or whether the machine will be unloaded at a nearby spot. If you are handling other projects in the southwest or on the Mediterranean, we also deliver to Toulouse, Nantes and Montpellier.

Which design suits your job? The overview Lifting platform rental – all platform types at a glance explains scissor, articulated boom, telescopic boom, mast, tracked and truck-mounted platforms and shows what determines the rental price.

Send us the key data for your job in Bordeaux – height, load, ground, period – and we will put together the right machine. Contact our team by phone or via the form. What we offer in other parts of the country is shown on the France country overview page.