COMPANY PROFILE Ӏ CRAWLER CRANES


the LR 1400/2 formed the core of the burgeoning wind-farm fleet of Doug Williams’ North Carolina- based Buckner Heavy Cranes. In addition, for Liebherr it helped to transform their crawler crane business into a mainstream series producer In fact, Liebherr’s early days in


the heavy crawler crane market got underway in the mid-1970s when Ehingen’s highly-influential engineering chief Rudolf Becker boldly decided to take a trip across the Atlantic to visit a potential customer with whom it had not previously done business. Such were Becker’s technical credentials, self-confidence, not-to-say ‘cojones’, that he shared with his boss CEO Freddie Bar, that, having never before built a single crawler crane, he walked away from his customer meetings with an order for two units of the largest crawler cranes ever-built. Those cranes – the LR 1300V - acquired by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) public utility company for nuclear power plant construction – featured 950 t derrick counterweights, 31.5m derrick booms and ratings of 585-tonne capacity at 13m radius on 31.5m base booms. They were decades ahead of the competition. NB: Born in 1929, Dipl. Ing f


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Hofmann


Kran-Vermietung was one of the first companies to use its Liebherr LR 1700.1 for wind work


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