TELE CRAWLERS Ӏ SECTOR REPORT
j of the tele boom crawler crane buying its first 63t Mantis and 40t and 80t Sennebogen cranes. By 2010 the tele crawler was
becoming a significant crane rental tool especially in the UK. The pioneer in the tele crawler crane rental business was AGD based in Stratford-upon-Avon which during the 1980s and 1990s developed a rental fleet of some 50 teles including IHIs of 5, 30 and 50-tonne capacity. Since then AGD has continued as a major force in the UK tele crane rental industry representing both Marchetti and Sennebogen with equal success. Most recently AGD succeeded in selling four 120-tonne capacity Sennebogen 6113E tele crawlers to Borehamwood-based JRL Group. Focussed on sub-structure building construction these were JRL’s first tele crawlers, purchased together with two 30-tonne capacity MAIT crawlers as part of a package including foundation machines. Recently Martin Jones’
NRC has recently added a Link-Belt TCC 800 to its fleet
Tadano’s
156-tonne capacity GTC 1800EX
Shaftesbury-based expanding Jones Crawler Cranes added another 40-tonne Sennebogen 643R again purchased from AGD, as well as taking a new eight- tonne capacity Maeda CC 1908. The 120-tonne Sennebogen has also proven popular with BPH Equipment Ltd., part of Balfour Beatty, that also owns several 70 and 50-tonne Sennebogens purchased from Robert Law’s company. However, as Robert told Cranes Today, the market at present is pretty slow with crane hirers rather than end user being the most active. UK Hitachi-Sumitomo and
Link-Belt dealer NRC, part of the Joseph Gallagher contracting group, has long been a substantial crawler crane rental provider and most recently added a 75-tonne Link-Belt TCC 800 to a fleet that includes about ten Link-Belt telescopics of 50 to 127-tonne capacity. However by far the largest UK tele boom crawler crane hirer remains Alfreton- headquartered Weldex with a fleet estimated at over 70 Liebherr tele crawlers ranging from 60, 100 and 220-tonners.
26 CRANES TODAY
A UNITED TADANO For around five years after acquiring Mantis in 2008, Tadano’s primary efforts were spent developing the Mantis product quality up to Tadano standards while at the same time looking to integrate the technology and componentry of the tele crawlers into a more rational relationship with Tadano’s hydraulic crane line. Eventually that re-engineering effort resulted into common boom and jib designs, winches, cabs, controls and safety features. Indeed so extensive was the effort that the new’ product line was unrecognisable compared to the original Mantis line. The breadth of the line was also expanded up to the 156-tonne GTC 1800EX (GTC 2000) while the innovative asymmetric crawler system named Opti-Width added the same kind of operational flexibility found on the outriggers systems of the latest ATs. It has been a very busy time
for Tadano integrating the Demag crane line and refashioning its sales, service, administration and technical divisions. Thus far as best seems to be the case this substantial reorganisation seems to have gone quite smoothly. f
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