CRANES AND CARRIERS Ӏ MINI MACHINES
ELECTRIC-FOCUSSED FUTURE FOR COUNTY LIFTING WITH NEW JMG CRANES
Kettering, UK-based crane and specialised transport services provider County Lifting has expanded its fl eet with the addition of two new JMG MC100-08 electric pick and carry cranes. The cranes come with interchangeable jib length options, plus winch and fork attachments. The MC100.08 has a maximum lifting capacity of 15 tonnes. County Lifting has a diverse fl eet, including Tadano and Liebherr mobile cranes with capacities ranging between 20 to 130 tonnes, city cranes, plus compact cranes. It already has a number of other
electric machines and says it is building towards an electric-focussed environmentally responsible future. It also believes the new cranes will help open up opportunities for future expansion, whilst providing clients with a green solution to their lifting requirements. “These electric pick and carry cranes are bringing an increased
level of versatility to our fl eet,” says Daniel Drury, project manager for County Lifting. “They are allowing us to deliver an increased level of effi ciency to a broader spectrum of clients, businesses and industries.”
vertical lifting without moving the boom.
It can be applied to all VR series machines: it has a maximum capacity of five tonnes and a chain stroke of one metre but is available also with greater capacities and strokes on request.
TRACKED CARRIERS Alongside the march of the mini crane a similarly small-sized machine is also making itself felt, often in the same environments: the tracked carrier. It, too, manoeuvres around
constricted sites and can even be found on upper floors of high-rises under construction for incredibly, given the right accessory, the machines can even climb stairs.
Before a mini crane can
lift its load the load has to be transported to the crane. Manpower used to be the option; but manpower, even if possible, is far from ideal. The human body has better things to do than strain and possibly injure itself carrying heavy loads around. So for fitting, say, glazing panels or light curtain walling in a high-rise from the inside; or bringing a steel beams into position for a mini-crane to lift; or for carrying pallets of bricks or of blocks around a low-rise residential construction site, a mechanised solution is useful. The mini tracked carrier is exactly that solution. It is what it says on the tin: a
flat carrying platform mounted on rubber tracks. It is perhaps surprising to hear that the first one, in the modern sense, was created more than 50 years ago: back in 1971 Yanmar mounted a rectangular carrying tray on the chassis of, of all things, a tracked combine harvester to carry material round construction sites. Larger such machines compete with dumper trucks on big outside projects. But it is only in recent years that the flat-topped mini tracked carrier has come into its own, on small and medium-sized projects, indoors and out. The reason is simple, and it’s
much the same as the reason that the mini crane is flourishing: electric power.
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