ALL TERRAIN CRANES Ӏ SECTOR REPORT
sector for tele-operation. In
certain sectors, such as offshore construction and forestry, this is already a standard way of working. Liebherr — and other manufacturers — have already developed remote operation for cranes working on hazardous
sites, most famously at Chernobyl. But as a skills shortage impacts the industry, systems like this could be used to allow routine jobs to be controlled on site, with experienced operators taking on the toughest lifts across multiple cranes, from the office.
THE DAISY AGE One of the key long-term benefits of a system like LICCON3, is that it will allow fleet owners to track fuel use and carbon emissions in granular detail. This may not be something that every fleet needs today. But for some
TADANO AC 5.160-1 WITH SPECIAL COUNTERWEIGHT CONFIGURATION FOR WEILAND
“It’s as though the Tadano AC 5.160-1 had been designed for us specifically,” say Volker and Sebastian Degenhardt, managing directors at Lampertheim, Germany-based crane service provider Weiland. And it literally was… “We looked at our customer’s requirements and equipped the crane with a special counterweight configuration that allows Weiland to use the five-axle unit as a taxi crane with a counterweight of 8.5 tonnes, all while staying under a 12-tonne axle load limit,” explains Frank Brachtendorf, the Tadano head of sales for the region of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. With this specific counterweight configuration the crane will be
able to wide range of jobs without the need for expensive additional transportation vehicles and it will also make it easier to get permits, says Tadano. Tadano’s IC 1 Plus crane control system was also a key selling
point as well: “It makes it extremely easy and intuitive to operate the crane, meaning that we can get any trained operator on the AC 5.160-1 and they’ll be ready to get to work right away,” says Sebastian Degenhardt. “That’s also part of why this crane is so cost-effective.” Weiland plans to use the crane for a wide range of jobs throughout the entire Rhine-Neckar region.
From left to right: Thomas Eisenberg (crane operator, Weiland), Oliver Noé (product specialist AT, Tadano),
Peter Schuster (crane operator, Weiland), Wolfgang Brauch (crane operator, Weiland), Sebastian Degenhardt (managing director, Weiland), Volker Degenhardt (managing director, Weiland), Frank Brachtendorf (head of sales DACH, Tadano)
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