PICK AND CARRY Ӏ SECTOR REPORT


A recent Ormig model owned by Italian crane and transport firm Autotrasporti Giolo Idamer: note rear wheels at 90° for manoeuvrability, and ‘indoors’ written on the side


or a screwdriver: one more tool in an engineer’s armoury. “That is enhanced even more


distributor. Carl Cooper, its


sales and aftersales manager, gives a rundown of why the concept is so useful. “One of the things about these cranes is that are pretty easy for anyone to drive,” he says. “The idea is to keep it as simple as possible: my mantra has been that operating them is a secondary skill. The operator is not going to be


working that crane full-time: they will be moving their load, setting it down and then working on that load, doing whatever their own speciality might be. So the crane operator might be a fitter, or an engineer, say lifting and repairing a pump. The Valla cranes we sell and hire out are not just lifting equipment: they are like a spanner


A line-up of


Valla pick and carry cranes


by the radio control. The engineer can actually be on the ground, with a clear view, guiding the crane into position himself, not having to rely on hand-signals from someone else. That is pretty much standard now. For the last several years all our cranes have had Bluetooth wireless remote control, and that is the case throughout our range, from the 3.6 tonne through to the 25 tonne machines.” Mini pick and carry cranes have been ahead of the game as far as power source is concerned, too. “We've never had trouble selling electric cranes,” says Cooper. “Even when we were building diesel cranes, something like 90% of the cranes that were sold were


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