‘Mobile crane news’ Archives
Schmidbauer puts new 600 tonner straight to work
German lifting and transport company Schmidbauer put its new 600 tonne capacity Liebherr crawler crane straight to work when it took delivery in November 2009. The LR 1600/2 was used to unload parts of a press weighing up to 335 tonnes at the industrial port of Bedorf in Germany. It lifted the parts, sent from a steel plant in England, off a [...]
Building bridges
A 200t capacity Liebherr LTM 1200-5.1 mobile crane has helped Edinburgh airport prepare for the arrival of a new tram stop. The Burnside Road bridge spans the Gogar Burn, serves one of the airport’s main service yards and provides access to the car hire pick-up point. The position of the existing bridge clashed with the proposed location of [...]
KSG takes Grove city crane
Germany-based KSG has taken delivery of a Grove GCK3045, Manitowoc's newest mobile crane, launched in 2009. The crane has a single cab and is suited to working indoors or in crowded urban settings. The GCK3045 has a lifting capacity of 45 tonnes and a 34 m boom with optional twist jib. This 6.3 m/10.2 m jib can rig within the crane's 2.55 m width [...]
The City Boy
Spierings is introducing a new single cab, environmentally friendly mobile self erecting tower crane, the three axle SK387-AT3 – dubbed the City Boy, reflecting its similarity to City type All Terrain cranes. The new model is lighter and more compact than anything that has gone before, the new unit offers 2,000 kg lift capacity at 36 metres [...]
Liebherr’s crane innovations
Liebherr has previewed two innovative new cranes which it plans to launch at next April's Bauma exhibition in Munich, Germany. First is the LTR 11200 telescopic boom crawler crane, which has been designed with the construction of wind farms in mind. From the slew ring up, the crane is derived from Liebherr's 1200 tonne capacity, nine-axle LTM [...]
Four new Terex 300 tonners for Ainscough
Ainscough Crane Hire in the UK has added four new 300 tonne capacity mobile cranes to its heavy lift division. It has taken delivery of three new Terex AC300/6 wheeled telescopic mobile cranes with the fourth to follow at the end of January. One is in the colours of Scotland-based James Jack Lifting Services, acquired by Ainscough in early [...]
Small city players
It’s often easy to overlook cranes at the lower end of the capacity scale. However, competition among city cranes, small cranes that share characteristics of both all terrains and rough terrains, is as fierce as anywhere else in the industry. Will North reports City cranes are small road legal cranes, with short carrier bases and compact [...]
First GTK1100 in Asia heads to wind farms
The first Grove GTK1100 crane to arrive in Asia has completed its first tasks, helping to build major wind farm installations in Inner Mongolia, China. Manitowoc delivered the GTK to China Power Equipment Installation Engineering Co. Ltd. (CPIE) at the end of June 2009, accompanied by two of the company's most experienced service personnel. The [...]
