PICK & CARRY CRANES Ӏ SECTOR REPORT YOUR PICK TAKE
The pick and carry crane is the workhorse of both factory and construction site and comes in several guises. But national preferences vary. Julian Champkin investigates.
The definition is fairly simple: a crane that can pick up a load and carry it to somewhere else is essentially a pick and carry crane. Their scale can vary hugely: from tiny mini cranes (with lifting capacities of a tonne or two) to lattice or teleboom crawlers that can lift, perhaps in tandem in a tailing operation, an industrial refinery or distillation tower weighing several hundred tonnes. A subset of the species is the
carry-deck crane. Again, it does what it says on the tin. It has a deck on its front and puts the load onto the deck to carry it along. In Europe, at least, such carry-decks as there are seem to be small- capacity machines, mini cranes or not much bigger. On the other side of the Atlantic they go bigger: the medium- and high-capacity
GGR’s GF250 positions heavy equipment
KC Machine
Movers taking delivery of its new Valla 25E
carry-deck, it seems, are a North American speciality. Geographical preferences do not end there: Australia has long been a pioneer and manufacturer of the articulated
pick and carry crane, with Franna (now part of Terex) and Tidd being major implementers of the theme. Outriggers are not required, or indeed possible, for the ‘carry’ stage of a pick and carry – though they may be fitted and used for the lifting and lowering part. Some rough terrain and all terrain cranes can, and frequently do, perform pick and carry operations; but they are specialised enough to form quite separate categories of their own and we shall not deal with them here. Now that we know what we
are talking about we can look at some examples of machines and of applications. Starting at the smaller end, a typical application
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