SECTOR REPORT Ӏ ROUGH TERRAINS
EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS
Rough terrain cranes work in, well, rough terrains. Julian Champkin reports on these workhorses for tough environments.
Think of an extreme environment: a hot, dusty, alkaline limestone mine in Turkey, perhaps; or the sands of Egypt – also hot, dry, and abrasive; or maybe the Canadian north in winter; a Namibian dockside – facing the storms and salt-laden winds of the Southern Atlantic; a dusty construction site in Brazil; or even the confined and narrow spaces of an Italian refinery. These are all rough terrains…
Grove’s GRT8120 in Turkey
and so are the cranes that work there. Rough terrain (RT) cranes are designed to be rugged, to forgo the luxury of paved level surfaces in favour of mud, rock, sand and the potholes, bumps and unevenness that go therewith. And they manage these environments very well as the examples here will demonstrate. Rough terrain cranes are,
of course, designed for these extremes. In contrast, all terrains
may have more axles but are longer, less manoeuvrable, and the ‘all’ in their name is not strictly correct. Sure, all terrain cranes can travel on roads and at speeds that can cover long distances – something that RTs generally cannot do – but put an all terrain crane on a claggy, boggy, clay field in pouring rain with mud potentially so deep it covers the crane’s axles and you’ll be phoning for heavy machinery to pull your so-called ‘all terrain’ out of its hole before the morning is out. Not so with a rough terrain. Let’s start not with
mud, though, but with the aforementioned limestone mine. The rough terrain in question operating here is a Grove GRT8120 from Manitowoc. Yil-Mer, one of Turkey’s leading limestone producers, recently purchased the country’s first example of the machine and has put it to work in its mine. The crane was bought through long-time Manitowoc dealer Karun Makina and it is the largest Grove rough terrain crane in the country.
RIGHT AT HOME “The Grove GRT8120 is performing well for Yil-Mer,” says Paulo Costa, Manitowoc’s sales manager for mobile cranes in the
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