SECTOR REPORT Ӏ MINI-CRANES
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powered pick-and-carry with a four-section main boom, 180-degree rear steer, and a chassis that can extend by a metre to give greater moment to the counterweight. The boom nose can pivot from plus 90° to minus 30° degrees for lifting in low head room environments. Not far away, and also at the
foot of the Alps, JMG has just completed a brand-new production plant at Sarmato in Emilio- Romagna, ‘an area’ as they put it, ‘where the new citadel of electric cranes is taking shape.’ The very first machine rolled off the line there on October 1st. It was an MC100S, a radio-controlled walk-beside 10t crane on four rubber tyres; the front wheels have counter-rotation designed to give extreme manoeuvrability. Moving north and out of Italy, Hoeflon, based in Barnveld in The Netherlands, have electrified one of its strongest mini-cranes, which in its original diesel incarnation is known as the C10. It lifts up to four tonnes, despite
the fact that its own self-weight is just five tonnes, and it, too, at 80 cm wide, is slim enough to fit through a standard single door. Radio-controlled, mounted on non-marking adjustable rubber tracks, the telescopic boom gives an outreach of 19.8m and lifting height of 22m; the electric- powered version is known as the C10e and means that the entire Hoeflon range, from the 600kg C1e to the nine-tonne C30e, is now lithium-battery powered. Electricity, of course, is the coming thing – or now the arrived thing – for cranes both large and small. Andy Crane, UK sales director of Kranlyft, was exhibiting a new model in Maeda’s eco range at Bauma this October. It is called the MK3O53-C.
“It is available in three options,” 30 CRANES TODAY
Maeda’s
MK3053 -C eco on display at Bauma 2022
he says: “diesel, diesel-electric or battery. It is on crawlers, with extendable tracks just for extra stability for when you drive it around .
“It has fully stepless outriggers,
all hydraulically powered: they fold out and they extend and lock via the remote control. There is no manual pinning of outriggers or anything on the machine: everything locks itself.” A key selling point is its reach:
“Reach and height are what many customers want these days, and the MK3O53-C has a lifting high of just under 70 metres, 16.95 metres to be exact. That is a lot for the size of the machine, which is only 780cm wide when it's folded. And that long reach fills what has been a gap in our range. We can really supply now the whole range of mini-crane reach requirements from smallest to biggest. That's going to give people so many more options on the smaller machines.” Andy Crane is proud of the
machine’s robustness. “Our cranes have always being known for their build quality and reliability. When
you look at the size of the boom sections, the boom on our fly-jib is really substantial; it is about the size of the main boom sections of some of our competitors’. And that, of course, increases capacity as well as ruggedness. I don’t think we get beaten on any of the important parameters.” The model on show at Bauma
was a prototype. “Even so there has been huge interest. Everyone stops to look. We have sold five at the show, even though the release date is July 2023, and we have many more potential sales that will be finalised soon. “The first advance order was
placed by Hird, and once they saw the final specification they increased their order to two. The next order was placed by a Leicester-based company and there are a couple of others from regular customers confirmed as well.” One reason for the interest is the
expanding inroads minis are making into sectors more usually thought of as the preserve of other, bigger, types such as tower cranes. Dan Ezzatvar of GGR – see
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