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Another US company that incorporates telecrawlers as a key tool in its fleet is Graham, North Carolina-headquartered Buckner HeavyLift Cranes. In 2024 Buckner provided a
solution for a customer looking for a crane to assist with renovations at the T. Boone Pickens Stadium at Oklahoma State University. According to Buckner its
Liebherr LTR1220 was the ideal crane for this project with suitable capacity to 245’ of lift radius and the ability to crawl into numerous lifting locations without the need to disassemble each time.
One of the challenges the crane
overcame was crawling through a narrow 16’-2” corridor at the 20 yard line before being positioned between the 30 yard lines to reach into the far corners of the 200-level seating area. Recently US crane industry
Clare Rodgers of
Select Plant Hire and Richard Everist of Liebherr Great Britain shaking on the order for two LTR 1150s at Vertikal Days 2024
magazine American Cranes and Transport reported that Buckner has expanded its fleet with the addition of some of the first Liebherr LTR 1150 telecrawlers in the country. The LTR 1150 was launched at Intermat 2023. Meredith Williams, chief operating officer at Buckner is reported as saying: “For years now Buckner has had one of the most expansive Liebherr telecrawler fleets. The addition of the LTR 1150 makes perfect sense within our overall fleet. The willingness of Liebherr to hear our feedback as owners of their other telecrawler models and incorporate that into the design made this new model that much more attractive. “The first unit will be deployed in the wind industry, which has long been partial to the flexibility and manoeuvrability of the Liebherr telecrawlers. “While we see wind projects
– both new erection and repower work – as the perfect home for this first unit, we know other industries are going to enjoy the same advantages of this new model on other projects soon.” “At Buckner, our telescopic crawler fleet has consistently demonstrated exceptional utilisation rates,” Brian Miller, vice president of sales for Buckner is reported as saying. “Initially, we invested in telescopic cranes to complement our large lattice crawlers. However, their versatility, manoeuvrability and lifting capacity have led them to become standalone solutions for a wide range of projects, outperforming traditional rough terrain cranes.”
FLEET EXPANSIONS And in the UK Select Plant Hire, one of the UK’s largest suppliers of equipment and services to the UK construction industry (which Liebherr says also has one of the largest telescopic crawler crane fleets in the UK and the world) concluded a two-machine order for the LTR 1150 at lifting and access tradeshow Vertikal Days. The package comprises a duo of
LTR 1150. The units are the latest purchase in a £20 million strategic investment in the latest stage V emission cranes and zero emission unplugged crawler cranes. Bridging the gap between the
LTR 1100 and the LTR 1220, the 150-tonne crawler crane has a six- section 52-metre main boom and when configured with two seven- metre lattice inserts and a 10.8 to 19 metre assembly jib, a hook height of 83 metres and a radius of 76 metres is possible. In addition to its lifting capabilities Liebherr says the LTR is the only crawler crane in its lifting capacity class that can be transported on one low loader complete with its crawler carriers, totalling 60 tonnes and a width
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