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17 Truck mounted lifts Comment 5 Telescopic crawler News 6 cranes 35 In recent years telescopic Baldwins hit for £900,000, Prison sentences for crawler cranes, while directors in telehandler accident, Morita acquires still niche, have probably Bronto, Ainscough acquires Specialist Crane, been the fastest growing Time France to start manufacturing, sector of the full size crane Isoli and LuiGong team up, Dingli market. We take a look at upgrades compact RT scissors, why the sector is becoming Bigger Jekko pick & carry crane, Telescopic crawler cranes more popular and review the latest 35 New Böcker cranes for 2016, product launches Comansa launches new 21LC450, Dingli goes direct Look back 2015 45 sales in UK, New CEO for Manitowoc Cranes, CTE We take our annual look at the launches new B-Lift range, Teupen unveils new major news reports and events Leo19T, 100,000th JLG auction winners, Ramirent in 2015, covered issue by management changes and financials round-up. issue in Cranes & Access. Overall 2015 was a better Truck mounted lifts 17 year than 2014 - although an oil Ruthmann is one price crash, climate change and the mindless, Look back at 2015 of the world’s cowardly violence seen in Paris and around the 45 leading truck world increased uncertainty. Southern Europe mounted platform appears to have turned the corner but it looks as manufacturers. though 2016 will be another bumpy year. Mark Darwin visited its head office in Gescher-Hochmoor, about 100km north of Dusseldorf, to talk to regulars general manager Uwe Strotmann and managing director Rolf Kulawik about the company and its ALLMI Focus 57 plans for the future. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Cranes & Access is published nine times a year Training 59 and is available on payment of an annual subscription of £40.00. Rental rate guide 25 If you wish to subscribe, please send a crossed cheque made IPAF Focus 61 payable to The Vertikal Press Ltd to: Subscriptions, The Vertikal Press, PO Box 6998, Brackley, Northants NN13 5WY. Address After a few relatively challenging year’s, the changes should also be sent to this address. Please include the 2015 annual survey reveals a generally positive PASMA Focus 63 address label from a recent issue with all correspondence and allow 3 months for changes to be effective. year for both rates, utilisation and growth plans Subscribe online at: for the crane, access and CPA 65 www.vertikal.net/en/journal_subscription.php telehandler rental companies. BULK DISCOUNTS: These are available to companies wishing to 43% Find out the full facts in our Books and Models 67 take out multiple subscriptions. Please contact the subscriptions (61%) 41% manager for more details. (35%) comprehensive rental Letters 69 Tel: +44 (0)8448 155900 Fax:+44 (0)1295 768223 rate survey. E-mail: [email protected] Kran & Bühne: The Vertikal Press also publishes a German What’s on 71 magazine which deals with the same issues as Cranes & Access, but is written for German users and buyers. Details available on Online directory 80 request. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of information In the next C&A published in Cranes & Access, the Editor and Publisher can accept no responsibility for inaccuracies or omissions. Views expressed in The next issue of Cranes & Access scheduled for mid-February will feature: Electric/hybrid articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect scissor lifts, Self-erecting mobile tower cranes, First Bauma preview and Mastclimbers & those of the Editor or Publisher. Material published in Cranes & Access is protected under international copyright law and may not hoists. If you have any contributions or suggestions, or are interested in advertising in this be reproduced without prior permission from the publishers. issue, please contact our editorial or sales teams.

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Editorial team Mark Darwin - Editor [email protected] Associate editors Inside or out? Rüdiger Kopf (Freiburg) I have heard a great deal of discussion lately over senior management Alexander Ochs (Freiburg) Leigh Sparrow appointments in the industry, particularly regarding the merits, or not, Sales & customer support of recruiting from outside the industry. Pam Penny Clare Engelke When I started my first journalist job I was a building engineer. The Karlheinz Kopp company - Construction News - had a policy of employing sector- Production/Administration experienced people, teaching them to write rather than trying to teach an existing journalist about the Nicole Engesser industry which they thought was more difficult. But for company leaders - chief executives ultimately Subscriptions responsible for the company’s success - which is better? In recent years many major companies Lee Sparrow have seemingly preferred industry outsiders - Manitowoc, Nationwide Platforms, Ainscough Cranes, Publisher Palfinger Platforms, Essex Cranes and others - most of them public or private equity owned. Leigh Sparrow Advertising sales You could argue that no matter what the business - whether it is selling widgets, renting platforms or UK-based making cranes - the problems are the same and the type of product or service is irrelevant. Certainly Pam Penny [email protected] an outsider can bring a fresh perspective to an incestuous industry, whether or not that works is Tel:+44 (0)7917 155657 Clare Engelke [email protected] another matter… Tel:+44 (0)7989 970862 Take the leading UK crane and access rental companies - Nationwide Platforms and Ainscough Crane Germany-based Karlheinz Kopp [email protected] Hire. Both have been in the news recently - Nationwide for doing a ‘U- turn’ over machine deliveries Tel:+49 (0)761 89786615 and Ainscough over its relationship with its crane operators. Italy In theory Nationwide’s move to outsource deliveries to a ‘transport specialist’ has potential merit. Fabio Potestà, Mediapoint, Unfortunately, as insiders know, the specialist rental industry has its own peculiarities that outsiders Corte Lambruschini, understandably struggle to rationalise. But delivering and handing over an aerial work platform is not Corso Buenos Aires 8, V Piano-Interno 7, the same as moving products from A to B. I-16129 Genova, Italy Tel: 010 570 4948 Fax: 010 553 0088 The move was probably resisted by insiders, foreseeing the potential pitfalls. But the downside of email: mediapointsrl.it always listening to the ‘this is the way we have always done it’ brigade is that efforts to improve The Vertikal Press efficiency become challenging, and evolution is harder to sell to investors than revolution. As an PO box 6998 Brackley NN13 5WY, UK Tel:+44(0)8448 155900 interesting aside - competitor AFI made the opposite move at the same time, investing in its fleet to Fax:+44(0)1295 768223 bring more deliveries in house. email: [email protected] web: www.vertikal.net Nationwide soon realised the move was not working and decided to bring it back in-house. It had Vertikal Verlag good reason for trying something different, it didn’t work so they changed it - positive management in Sundgauallee 15, D-79114, my book. The downside is the age-old problem of losing highly experienced staff in the process. Freiburg, Germany Tel: 0761 8978660 Fax: 0761 8866814 Ainscough’s issue appears to be more historic strong-arm management versus unionised operators. email: [email protected] web: www.vertikal.net Again the risk is losing experienced people. At the end of the day the inside or out question depends on the managerial skills of the individual - their ability to lead people effectively, introducing new ideas and being able to separate true foibles of a specialist industry from attempts to restrict or block progress. Fair play to Nationwide Platforms for trying something new and fixing it when it didn’t work. MemberS of: Ainscough’s methods may well be another thing - time will tell.

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December/January 2016 cranes & access 5 news c&a Morita acquires Bronto Federal Signal has sold its Bronto Skylift aerial lift business to Japan’s Morita Holdings for €80 million in cash. The all-share deal is expected to be completed during the first quarter. Morita is Japan’s leading producer of fire-fighting equipment with annual revenues of around $600 million. It also produces a range of recyling and garbage/refuse collection trucks. The acquisition will provide it with an international fire-fighting platform product line and access to the wider international market. Baldwins hit for £900,000 Time France to start manufacturing UK-based Baldwins Crane Hire has been fined £700,000 plus £200,000 Long-term Versalift distributor Time France looks set to launch its own in costs after being found guilty of corporate manslaughter for the death range of van mounted aerial lifts under the Klubb brand, which appears of its operator Lindsay Easton, who died when his 500 tonne crane ran to compete with those it currently sells from Time Versalift. away and collided with an earth bank as he negotiated a steep hill at The news follows its move into a new 20,000 square metre facility at the Scout Moor wind farm in 2011. Ferrieres-en-Brie where production is scheduled to begin early in the new The company had been found guilty to the fact that the crane’s brakes had year. The company said that it plans to export with the ambition to become not only not been maintained, but some of the braking systems were also the European market leader. partially disabled. The penalties are payable over five years. Time France dates back to 1980 but was acquired a young entrepreneur, Passing sentence, Judge Pamela Badley said: “The jury decided that the Julien Bourrellis in cause of the crash was brake failure, as a result of gross negligence on the 2002. It claims to part of senior management who had failed to put systems in place for safe have sold around working and monitoring.” 500 units at its peak. Products include Versalift Prison sentences in and Isoli vehicle telehandler fatality mounted lifts. A sneak view of one Two directors of UK-based Wooburn Landscapes - Andrew and Mark of the new Klubb Schofield - have received four and half month prison sentences, van mounted lift. suspended for 18 months, plus 250 hours of unpaid community service, while the company was fined £50,000 plus costs of £9,680. The penalties concerned a fatal incident in 2013 in which Russell Meech, Lomma files for bankruptcy 27, fell under the wheel of a telehandler while guiding a suspended load at New York crane owner James Lomma a project in Potters Bar. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the families of two Ainscough acquires Specialist Crane men who died in a 2008 tower crane UK crane rental company Ainscough has acquired Specialist Crane Hire collapse in the city were given leave to in an all-share deal from Peter Cosgrove, 63. Established in 1965 as A. collect the combined award from their Jardine & Sons, it was acquired in 2002 by the Specialist Hire Group, successful civil action of $96 million. with Marsden Crane Hire of Wigan added the following year. It was Lomma, 70, is reported to have filed rebranded as Specialist Crane Hire in 2010. Chapter 11 for himself and three of his companies. A statement from his legal Specialist operates from three locations, Bishops Auckland, Wigan and team said that the filing was initiated Morecambe and according to the Cranes & Access UK Top 30 is the 26th for protection from creditors during the Jimmy Lomma largest crane hire company with 26 All Terrain cranes, topped by a 130 tonne appeals process. Liebherr LTM1130-5.1. Ainscough Crane Hire’s managing director Robin Richardson said: “Acquisitions are a key part of our five-year plan and we are delighted to Quick Reach acquires Specialized make such an excellent one at the beginning of this process.” UK-based aerial lift and telehandler rental company Quick Reach Powered Access has acquired the assets of Scottish rental company Specialized Access from the IAPS group. No terms have been disclosed. Manchester-based Quick Reach will retain the Specialized Access facility in Wishaw, near Glasgow and has already taken on all Specialized employees. The acquisition provides a fleet of spider lifts from Hinowa and Omme Lift, plus 3.5 tonne truck mounted lifts from Isoli and CTE.

6 cranes & access December/January 2016 A LiuGong Isoli PTT160A c&a news New Böcker cranes for 2016 German lifting equipment manufacturer Böcker is adding three new aluminium boomed cranes to its product line Isoli and LuiGong for 2016. New models include The new Böcker AK46-6000 on a two truck mounted cranes - MAN TGM 26-290 three axle carrier. the AK37-4000 and the new flagship AK46-6000 - and a trailer crane, collaboration the AHK36-2400. The new models replace three older cranes - Italian truck mounted lift manufacturer Isoli has launched its the AK32-1500, AK44-4000 and AHK34-1800 trailer crane. collaboration with construction equipment manufacturer LuiGong in China. The AK46-60000 has a maximum 2400 is, according to Böcker, the tip height of 46 metres with optional most powerful trailer crane on the LuiGong has already started mounting Isoli products on locally produced two metre boom extension, and market, with a maximum capacity vehicles which will be distributed by the LiuGong distribution network in boasts a six tonne maximum of 2,400kg, a 36 metre maximum China and overseas. The first three straight telescopic units - a 16 metre capacity at eight metres. It can tip height and with a total weight PTT160A, 18 metre PTT180A and 20 metre PTT 200A - were presented at also take 1,000kg to 26 metres and of 3,500kg can be towed behind a the launch event. The venture is part of Isoli’s push into Asia, following the 250kg to 39 metres. The AHK36- large 4x4. opening of Isoli Asia in Singapore 18 months ago. The ultra- CE version of compact Smart- Dingli upgrades Rig S1 Global is CE certifed Smart-Rig crane and weighs just compact US-based Smart-Rig Cranes has introduced 660kg a CE version of its S1 micro crane, the RT scissors S1 Global. Chinese aerial lift manufacturer Dingli The tiny crane has a maximum capacity of has improved and upgraded its 33ft The new Dingli 885kg and a six metre manually telescoped JCPT1217RT compact Rough Terrain JCPT1217RTI 33ft three section boom and can pick & carry its full scissor lift to the JCPT1217RTI. compact Rough load chart. It is battery Terrain scissor lift powered, has an overall The improvements - which improve width of just 800mm off-road capability and gradeability and weighs just 660kg. -to 40 percent - include higher power In addition to its CE wheel drive motors from Sauer Danfoss certification, the S1 Global complies with standards replacing the previous White drive for the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. motors, along with an oscillating axle and a move from one large pump to two smaller independent hydraulic pumps. Overall dimensions remain the same. Nationwide reverts These improvements will also be carried over to other models in the family, the 39.4 metre JCPT1417RTI and 26ft to in-house deliveries JCPT1017RTI. UK-based Nationwide Platforms is terminating its current machine delivery contract with Wincanton Transport at the end of February and will revert to an in-house delivery service. The move comes one year after the Bigger Jekko pick company decided to outsource the delivery of its machines to one of the UK’s leading logistics and transport specialists. No reason was & carry crane given for the change Jekko has introduced a new of heart. The new electric pick & carry crane, the five Jekko MPK 50 tonne MiniPicker MPK50 which has a maximum lift height of eight metres, can lift to a 4.5 metre maximum radius and has a partial slew capability. The battery powered unit is fully radio remote controlled and features a front load stabilisation bar to support loads while travelling. Jib options will also be available at its official launch at Bauma in April.

December/January 2016 cranes & access 7 news c&a

Linden Comansa has launched the new 21LC450 flat top crane.

The bulletin follows the fatal overturn New Comansa of a 70m truck mount in Brisbane 21LC450 tower crane Outrigger safety alert Spanish tower crane manufacturer Linden Australian health and safety organisation The outrigger in Comansa has launched a new flat top WorkCover Queensland, has issued the ground tower crane, the 20 and 25 tonne 21LC450 a safety alert highlighting the risks replacing the 21LC400. The 21LC550 and associated with inadequate support under 21LC660 have also been improved with outrigger feet, particularly on poor ground, increased capacities. following the fatal overturn of a 70 metre The 21LC450 has a maximum capacity of truck mounted lift in Brisbane last month 20 or 25 tonnes achieved by a change in the that killed a photographer Chris Powell, 41, hoist cable and trolley/hook assembly, along and son Brendan, 17. with a new turntable, slew ring and cat-head. The bulletin highlights a number of actions The 20 tonne version can now handle 10 that are required including the manufacturers/ tonnes at the 50 metre jib tip, while the 25 agents supplying information on any tonne model can take 25 tonnes to a radius of conditions including loads imposed on the 20.6 metres on a 40 metre jib. ground by outriggers and wheels. It also recommends continual monitoring of outriggers during operation, so that the unit can be stopped if the outrigger Dingli goes direct in the UK or pads show any signs of sinking. The full WorkCover bulletin can be found at www.worksafe.qld.gov.au/news/safety-alerts/whsq/2015/support-of- Chinese aerial lift manufacturer Dingli mobile-plant-on-outriggers has appointed access industry veteran Andy Northwood as its first European sales representative, to handle direct sales in the UK. He will work directly with major rental companies while setting up a sales and service organisation to provide replacement Andy Northwood parts, warranty and after sales service. Kam Trading (UK) insolvent The Dingli development (above) follows the liquidation in December of UK sales company KAM Trading (UK) Ltd. Kam - which also traded as Dingli Platform Sales UK - was founded in 2014 by Philip O’Donnell with the support of James Darnley to sell Dingli aerial lifts in the UK. The B-Lift 165 is the first model in a new range of platforms up to 27m The company - which restructured at least once - was owned by O’Donnell, working height. Mounted on a Nissan Cabstar NT 400, the total weight of Martin Stone, Vicken Kouyoumjian Adrian Learer and Ian Murray. the 165 is less than 3,200kg, with an overall height of under three metres New CEO for Manitowoc Cranes CTE launches new Manitowoc Cranes has appointed Barry Pennypacker as chief executive and president, initially reporting to interim chief executive of Manitowoc B-Lift truck range Company, Kenneth Krueger. Pennypacker was previously chief executive of Quantum CTE has launched the first model in its newB -Lift truck mounted range Lean, a supplier of precision components that he founded on a 3.5 tonne truck - the 16.5 metre, 250kg capacity B-Lift 165. The after his departure from Gardner Denver in July 2012, range will top out at 27 metres. Similar to the CTE ZED articulated truck where he had been chief executive since 2008. The mounts, the B-Lifts include fully proportional electro-hydraulic controls current president of Manitowoc Cranes, Larry Weyers and use 2mm Strenx steel from SSAB in place of 3mm Domex steel to will remain with the company as an executive vice provide greater strength and less weight. president. When the Manitowoc Foodservice business Barry The lifts also have new electrical systems with a CAN bus management has been spun off as an independent company, the Pennypacker and a new hydraulic management system. The completely redesigned Manitowoc Company will change its name to Manitowoc Cranes Inc, with sub-frame includes the new IOTS Integrated Oil Tank System which is Pennypacker as chief executive and Krueger as chairman. housed in the rear beam.

8 cranes & access December/January 2016 Five guilty of c&a news Mecca crane Nifty-Lift has mounted the TB270 onto a 4.5 tonne disaster Iveco Daily chassis The Jeddah Bureau of Investigations and Public Prosecution in Saudi Arabia has found five senior technical and engineering officials guilty of involvement in the failures leading to the incident in which a 1,350 tonne crawler overturned onto the Grand Mosque on September 11th, 2015 killing 111 people and injuring 394 and is likely to charge them. The Bureau began investigating the part played by key suspects employed by contractor Binladen and local government. It now claims that it has found conclusive evidence of their involvement in the incident. The engineers and technicians were involved in the supervision of the project to expand the Grand Mosque. The Jeddah Bureau will forward the results of its investigations to its headquarters in Riyadh which will compile the list of charges.

Riwal has opened its first used Riwal equipment showroom in Valencia, opens used Spain. Nifty Ruthmann Australian vehicle mounted lift equipment manufacturer and supplier Nifty-Lift has mounted the 27 metre Ruthmann TB270 on an Iveco Daily 45C chassis showroom for the local market. Dutch international rental The machine offers 14.8 metres of outreach with its five section straight company Riwal has opened its boom and boasts a maximum capacity of 230kg. GVW is 4,495kg allowing it first used equipment showroom in Valencia, Spain. to be driven on a standard car licence making it ideal for self-drive rental. The 1,000 square metre facility has a wide variety of used equipment from Nifty-Lift general manager Kevin Power said: “We developed a work-truck the rental fleet on display. The company says it has been opened due to the platform combination in response to a clear gap identified in the Australian increased interest in purchasing good used equipment from rental companies market for higher lifts driveable on an Australian car licence. A number of and traders in Spain. By having the machines in stock, customers can come competitor models were reviewed but none had the payload and wheelbase and see the equipment which is ready for immediate delivery. we were looking for. The TB270 is a perfect match the Iveco chassis.”

December/January 2016 cranes & access 9 news c&a Telehandler report demands action Western Australia’s The right hand stabiliser cylinder Department of mines & lost pressure after its check valve Petroleum has published was smashed by a falling rock an incident report concerning a telehandler fitted with an aerial work platform, which The new Teupen Leo19T overturned at a mine causing serious injuries to Teupen unveils new Leo19T the man in the platform. Spider lift manufacturer Teupen has unveiled a new generation 19 metre The man was working at a Leo19T straight telescopic spider lift in the company’s medium height height of around 12 metres class. The previous Leo19T has not been built since 2008, but according removing rock from a cliff to the company demand for a Leo19T has increased significantly. face when a large rock fell and landed on the right hand stabiliser cylinder, The new Leo19T has little in common with its predecessor. It uses the shearing its check-valve block bolts, causing the stabiliser to collapse due 990mm wide chassis from the Leo21GT and 24GT and the same high- to loss of pressure. The telehandler overturned wedging the platform against strength steel, providing up to 14.5 metres of outreach with 80kg while the cliff face around six metres up, trapping the man’s legs. He fractured his taking its maximum 250kg platform capacity to 13.5 metres. With its right leg and had crush injuries to his left foot. automatic high lift levelling system, the Leo19T can achieve an additional The Department ruled that the manufacturer’s check valve covers were 1.2 metres of height. Other features include a ‘home function’ which inadequate to prevent damage from an impact by large heavy objects, automatically returns the boom to its stowed position along with the all- work planning did not consider the potential of equipment being struck by new ‘memory function’. Any point in the working envelope can be saved falling rocks outside of the demarcation zone, and the design of the platform and returned to at the push of a button. All functions are available from the did not prevent the extension of body parts beyond the usual finger/hand standard remote controller. protection rail. The report recommends that equipment fitted with check valves is inspected to determine if they are at risk from such impacts. It also suggests that work platform designs should prevent body parts extending past finger protection rails in an overturn situation.

(L-R) Walter van Winckel, Karel Huijser and Frank Nerenhausen of JLG with Norty Turner and Soren Rosenkrands and Glenn Verburg of Riwal with Jonathan Dawson of JLG and the European telehandler

The Manitou Safe Man System Manitou Safe Man in Oz Manitou has launched is Safe Man secondary guarding system in Australia, complete with auto-retract option. The system - now standard on all Manitou boom lifts sold in Europe - features a pressure sensitive switch across the front of the controls which stops the machine when pressed for more than three seconds. If the retract function has been enabled - the machine will automatically retract the last JLG auctions commemorative function. When locked out, the lower controls remain operative and if set off inadvertently it can be reset from the platform. telehandlers JLG has auctioned two commemorative telehandlers Lego model - a 4017RS for Europe and a G10-55A for North America - winner to mark the production of its 100,000th telehandler early Mark Trueman, of Hird Doncaster, UK last year. won the limited edition Lego boom lift Dutch rental company Riwal (L-R) John Boehme of JLG, Jerry L. Reinhart in a competition organised by IAPS. of Skyworks, and Tim Welch of JLG, with the Trueman won the prize for his son made the winning bid for the North American telehandler Cody, after correctly identifying the European machine, while Buffalo, New York-based Skyworks won the North American model. three main divisions of IAPS as APS, Mark Trueman IPS and PSR. with the LEGO Riwal bid €88,000 and requested that €50,000 of it be donated to the model Alpe d’HuZes foundation.

10 cranes & access December/January 2016 Executive management c&a news changes at Ramirent Standard Ramirent has made changes to its executive management team after Anna Hyvönen announced her departure. Chief financial officer Jonas insulation Söderkvist takes over Ramirent Sweden and Denmark, and is replaced by Pierre Brorsson, who joins after a 20 years with Atlas Copco. from The new LAT135-H Low Voltage has a working height The ‘Executive Management Team’ is Versalift of 13.3 metres, an outreach now as follows: Pierre Brorsson of 6.1 metres and 230kg Versalift UK has introduced platform capacity. Magnus Rosén, chief executive certified low voltage Pierre Brorsson, chief financial officer insulation as standard Dino Leistenschneider, executive vice on its new Isuzu D-Max president, fleet and sourcing and Toyota Hilux pick- Jonas Söderkvist, executive vice up mounted LAT135-H president, Sweden and Denmark platforms. Øyvind Emblem, executive vice The machine integrates its president, Norway insulation technology within the boom structure, platform Anna Hyvönen, executive vice president, controls and fittings, North Central Europe until April enabling dielectric flash- Mikael Kämpe, executive vice president, Finland from April testing whilst the bucket is Heiki Onton, executive vice president, Baltics & Europe Central from April mounted to the platform. This prevents electric shock to persons on the ground who inadvertently touch 44m Bronto for L&N the vehicle, while the lift UK-based L&N Platforms has taken delivery of a new 44 metre Bronto contacts a live conductor. S44XDT truck mounted lift, its largest unit so far. The new machine is The low voltage insulation is certified to the latest The new fully hydraulic mounted on a two axle chassis and joins an all-Bronto truck mounted twin joystick control system. fleet, which includes the 34 metre S34MDT and a 36 metre S36XDT. standards and rated to provide The new machine features a four protection from live voltages up to 1kV AC. UK-based L&N section main boom, plus a long Platforms has fixed-length jib and a short taken delivery articulating jib, providing up to 24 of a new 44 New Kato for Coussens metres of outreach and a 700kg metre Bronto UK crane rental company Coussens of Bexhill has taken delivery of maximum platform capacity. The S44XDT one of the first new 20 tonne Kato CR-200Ri city type All Terrain outriggers include fully variable cranes in the UK. jacking and auto levelling. The new crane replaces a 25 tonne Kato CR250, which has been in the fleet for a number of years. The company has also ordered a new 13 tonne Kato CR-130Ri to replace its 10 tonne Kato CR100. The new CR 200i features a six section 28 metre boom, plus a four to 5.8 metre telescopic jib that offsets up to 60 degrees. Being cable suspended it can also be erected (L-R) Lee Roebuck of L&N, within the width of the crane, Arne Denks of Bronto, Nicky Francis of L&N and ideal when working in narrow Coussens new Kato Ian James of Bronto streets or alleys. CR-200Ri ready for work

December/January 2016 cranes & access 11 news c&a Financials round-up Essex Crane delists Kobelco Cranes to merge US-based crane rental Kobelco Construction Machinery company Essex has decided and Kobelco Cranes have to delist its shares from the confirmed the decision to merge Nasdaq stock exchange the two businesses from April having breached the 2016. Owner Kobe Steel separated requirement to maintain a bid the crane business in 2004 after price of over $1 per share. The company will also terminate the registration Kobelco construction equipment of its common Stock under the Securities Exchange Act and hopes that the teamed up with Case New shares will be listed the OTC Pink Sheets - although there is no guarantee. Holland to build excavators. It will now re-merge the two companies “in order to strengthen the equipment business ready for further growth”. The Ashtead flies high … transaction will see Kobelco Construction “absorb” Kobelco Cranes. Ashtead, owner of Sunbelt in the USA and A-Plant in the UK, has reported another substantial increase in Imperial Crane snaps up Speedway revenues and profits during the first half. Revenues US crane rental company Imperial jumped 28 percent to £1.26 billion with pre-tax profits Crane Services of Bridgeview, rising by the same percentage to £331.9 million. The Chicago, has acquired Speedway second quarter was slightly less exuberant with revenues climbing 22.5 Crane, of Manhattan/Joliet, percent to £648.9 million, while pre-tax profits improved 25 percent to Illinois. The new location joins £176.5 million. Net debt at the quarter was £1.98 billion up from £1.57 billion Imperials other locations in Indiana this time last year. and Texas. Speedway Crane, was …and gets into hoists established in 2002 by one of Imperial’s crane operators, Mike Fitzgerald. It has achieved a zero accidents Ashtead also quietly acquired G.B. Access Ltd - the UK-based hoist record in its 13 years of operation. rental business - for £6 million in cash in October with a further £2 million contingent on performance. G.B. Access was established in 1989 and now claims to have the largest rental fleet of Alimak and Stros construction hoists Speedy/HSS merger talks off in Europe, with a fleet of around 230 passenger/material hoists, more than UK general rental giants Speedy 50 material hoists and 25 beam/davit type hoists. and HSS squashed rumours of a possible merger, following Strong first half for Vp preliminary discussions between the two companies. The UK rental company Vp saw first half revenues increase announcement caused a four percent to £105.1 million in spite of a subdued boardroom break-up at Speedy economic background. Pre-tax profits for the period with non-executive directors Chris Masters and James Morley, who improved six percent to £16.3 million. Its UK Forks reportedly opposed the merger, resigning amid talks of a bid to unseat telehandler rental business saw revenues rise more chairman Jan Åstrand. than seven percent to £9.8 million while operating profits jumped almost 25 percent to £2.9 million. Cabins crush Western One New records for Tadano Revenues at Canadian sales and rental group Western One were almost halved Tadano achieved record first half revenues - up six in the third quarter, in spite of a good percent to ¥104.2 billion ($849 million) - while pre-tax performance from its aerial lift and profits increased 15.3 percent to ¥15.9 billion ($130 telehandler rental division. Nine month million) another record. The company benefited from revenues fell 31 percent to $197.1 million, high utilisation rates in its home market, while demand overseas was weaker while last year’s pre-tax profit of $12.1 million turned into a loss of in North, Central and South America, offset by increases in Europe, Asia, and $11.8 million, due almost entirely to the company’s Britco cabin business. the Middle East. Third quarter revenues fell 47 percent to $46.8 million, with a pre-tax pre Japanese sales increased 9.5 percent to ¥50,878 billion ($414.6 million) loss of $9.4 million. thanks, said the company, to its focus on sales of larger products. Sales outside of Japan improved 3.2 percent to ¥53,310 billion ($434 million). Mobile crane sales totalled ¥71.3 billion ($384million) up 8.6 percent on last HDW acquires Time Benelux year, loader crane sales fell three percent to ¥9.96 billion ($81million) and Netherlands-based aerial lift sales jumped 14.1 percent to ¥8.8 billion ($71.7million). distributor HDW - part of the TVH group - has acquired Time Tanfield updates on Snorkel Benelux, the Belgian Tanfield issued an update on its minority stake in Snorkel, indicating a strong distributor for Versalift rise in revenues, but not profit. and Ruthmann The update says that Snorkel will truck mounted lifts. The business has been renamed HDW Belux with all report revenues of $120 million this employees remaining on board. HDW Belux will concentrate on the sales year, up 30 percent on last year. and service of Versalift and Ruthmann vehicle mounted lifts and will also take Tanfield’s stake only has a value if over Genie distribution in Belgium from HDW Netherlands Snorkel achieves an EBIT of $25 million by 2018. 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Fassi claims the lifting performance of Push-around the new cranes - relative to hydraulic reach - is better than any other crane on attachment the market in this category. UK-based Aerial and Handling Services has launched the Three new Fassi cranes DRXmicro - a compact version of Italian loader crane manufacturer Fassi has unveiled three new cranes its deckRailXtra for push-around - the compact 50 tonne/metre F545RA XE-Dynamic for installation on scissor lifts. three axle trucks and the six and seven tonne/metre F65B.1 and F70B.1 Specifically designed for use with in its small crane range. the 11ft platform height Airo XLP5E The F545RA XE-Dynamic offers a 10 the company is planning to market percent increase in capacity over the the combined platform and existing F485RA, with just a three percent attachment as the IPAV - increase in overall weight, thanks to an or Industrial Push Around Vertical - increased outrigger spread of 7.8 metres. with a corrosion resistant zinc finish Up to eight hydraulic extensions and a on the platform and chassis as variety of jib combinations are available. standard. Its 5.3 metre working Maximum boom length is 20.8 metres, height has a 250kg platform capacity, or 24.9 metres with additional manual including the DRXmicro attachment, extensions. which weighs just 10kg.

The new F65B.1 and the F70B.1 models are nine percent lighter than their The attachment has a rated predecessors, thanks to the use of ultra high-strength steel. carrying capacity of 40kg.

Agrimeco has Seven Liebherr towers for Agrimeco purchased Vietnamese engineering and construction The cranes - three 542 HC-L 18/36 Litronic luffing jib seven Liebherr tower cranes for conglomerate Agrimeco has purchased seven and four 280 EC-H 16 Litronic units - are the first new the prestigious new Liebherr tower cranes for work on the Liebherr tower cranes in Vietnam. The three luffing jib VietinBank VietinBank Towers project in Hanoi - models were the first to be erected, closely followed Towers project the country’s highest tower at 363 metres. by the four 280 EC-H cranes. in Hanoi

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c&a news News HIGHLIGHTS • CIT Equipment Finance will supply finance •IPAF is offering free safety poster artwork. • Australian Rock Logistics has ordered 30 Hiab programmes for Sany America. •Time Danmark has opened a new facility in X-HiDuo loader cranes. • US Acme Rentals has appointed Hedehusene, Zealand and closed its location in • Porto di Carrara, Italy, has purchased a Terex Meagan Reeves as VP Gulf Coast Skovlunde. Gottwald mobile harbour crane, Terex Liftace operations. •Germany’s Dietmar Floßdorf has purchased reach stacker and Genie boom lifts. Two JLG 1500SJP boom lifts have • Manitex has sold its Load King new Liebherr LTM 1100-5.2 and LTM 1300-6.2. • Meagan All Terrain cranes. been delivered to the Aktogay copper mine in division to Utility One Source for Reeves Kazakhstan. $6.5 million in cash. •Snorkel has appointed Ken Goh as sales director for East Asia. • Terry Marnock has retired from Kranlyft • Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey after 35 years with the company. Syntec Construction has purchased player and founder of Quebec-based • • UK rental company Southern Cranes & Dickie Moore Rentals, has died. Thailand’s firstPotain MCR 160 Access has purchased a Liebherr LTM luffing jib crane. Ken Goh 1060-3.1. • Palfinger has broken ground on a new Terry sales and service facility in Baden Dickie •Messe München - owner of bauma - Hiab owner Cargotec has appointed has acquired Russian exhibition CTT Expo. • Marnock Württemberg, Germany. Moore Lasse Eriksson as vice president •Hewden has sold its cabin hire/portable digitalisation. • KBW, the owner of Raimondi tower cranes, accommodation business to the Warnick group. has formed a partnership with Brazil’s Progen. • UK rental company Facelift has added 77 •UK contractor/rental company MC Property new Niftylift booms to its fleet. • Harfords Security has purchased a 10.5m Maintenance has purchased a new • Russian contractor Mechstroymost has Dinolift 105TL trailer lift - the first in the UK. PalfingerP480NX. purchased a JMG industrial crane. • Manitou has appointed Walter Payton of •Ex Ritchies executive Guylain Turgeon Czech power company CEZ has purchased an Chicago as dealer for its telehandlers. has joined Swiss online equipment insulated Versalift VO-355-MHI. • Jim Thomas of JLG Europe has retired trader Equippo as partner. • Roger Löhrer has taken over from Erwin after 28 years with the company. Modulift has appointed Green Line Guylain Müller as MD of Rosenbauer Switzerland • Turgeon who retires later this year. • German rental company Buchtmann Colombia and Saudi Dutest as dealers in Columbia and Saudi Arabia. • IMC has purchased 30 used cranes Arbeitsbühnen has taken two new from Austria’s Prangl. Roger CMC spider lifts. Jim •German-based TII group has acquired the civilian Löhrer Thomas product line of Indian trailer manufacturer Tratec. • South Africa-based Marlboro Crane • US software company Point of Hire has taken delivery of a Rental has opened an office in Melbourne, Australia. •UK nuclear contractor Magnox has purchased a Liebherr LTM 1300-6.2. • UK rental company Bella Access has entered the Unic URW-706 spider crane. • Riwal has opened three new depots spider lift market with a Hinowa 20:10 Lithium. •Niftylift has appointed Heli as its distributor Belgium, Denmark Sweden. for Belgium. Bronto owner Federal Signal has acquired vacuum • UK-based Rocket Rentals has • Erwin truck manufacturer Westech. •Riwal sold 169 aerial lifts for €1.6 million purchased 30 JCBs including six at its first Red Tag sale. metre/2,500kg 525-60. Müller • Bonfigliolihas acquired German crawler crane •UK-based APS has appointed Nathan • Rolls-Royce has taken delivery of e10 transmission manufacturer O&K Antriebstechnik. Cook as business development Elebia automatic hooks for lifting aero • Product manager Ron Jackson has manager vehicle-mounted platforms. engines in Singapore. retired after almost 35 years with JLG. •UK Star Platforms has entered the • Collé Rental & Sales has taken delivery of four • US overhead crane company Ace truck mounted market with a Nathan 150ft Genie SX-150s with more on order. has promoted Kevin Beavers to VP CTE Zed 21.2 JH. Cook • Forth Ports has purchased a second Liebherr manufacturing. Terex Port Solutions has sold 10 LHM 550 mobile harbour crane for The Port Ron • of Tilbury. Contractor Anton Schick has taken diesel-electric harbour cranes in India. • Jackson •Power Climber has appointed Colby delivery of a new Liebherr •Sebastian Wilkinson has cycled the 1,200km Hubler as sales manager the Americas. LTM 1160-5.2 All Terrain crane. from Brisbane to Sydney. •Peter Ellison, applications engineer for • US software supplier Wynne Systems has acquired •The Ha’argaz group has taken over the Hiab/Cargotec UK, has died. rentalresult owner Result Group. distribution of Palfingercranes in Israel. Marsa Maroc has ordered seven Kalmar West Georgia Technical College has opened its • Colby • UK-based AFI has secured a £70 million • rubber-tyred gantry cranes for a new Hubler asset-based credit line to fund new growth. new crane training centre. terminal in Casablanca. •Mammoet Deutschland has taken delivery of a new •Heavy lift company ALE UK has appointed • UK rental company Prolift has purchased Liebherr LTM1400-7.1. Darren Adams as director. 10 new Manitou boom lifts. Access industry veteran Mike Evans •TVH has been appointed distributor for •Ireland’s Highway Plant has added Haulotte • Star 10 mast booms to its fleet. has retired after more than 46 years in Lonking lift truck parts. rental. •Indian crane company Bhoir has ordered •Thomas Cook Airlines has purchased a Manitou six new Liebherr LR1300SX crawler cranes. MRT2540 telehandler for London Gatwick. • US-based Sims Crane & Equipment has Mike •PASMA and Hire Association Europe have •US contractor has taken delivery of an 80 ton taken delivery of 17 new Tadano ATF Evans Terex HC 80 crawler crane. All Terrain cranes. signed a co-operation agreement. •Liebherr has sold its third 3,000 tonne LR 13000 •Bronto owner Federal Signal has promoted • Jekko mini cranes has appointed Tvis Vognmands crawler crane to a buyer in Mexico. Jennifer Sherman to chief executive. Forretning as its dealer for Denmark. • Anna Kingan has joined Ainscough •Niftylift has delivered the first HR28 Hybrid • Mammoet is expanding its US rental fleet Crane Hire as operations director boom lift in Finland to Narma group. with a $100 million investment. South East Region. •UK crawler crane specialist BPH Equipment celebrated its 40th anniversary. • The Municipality of Lolland has purchased • US-based Bragg Crane Service a 21m CTE ZED 21.2JH. •Tony Narushka, founder/owner of has taken eight new Tadano Anna Polish access company Instant Polska, • Chinese aerial lift company Runshare has appointed GR-900XL RT cranes. Kingan has died. UpRent as dealer for Croatia • Speedy UK has appointed Chris Morgan UK rental company Hewden has and the Balkans. as interim finance director. • appointed a new sales and marketing Tony • Durante Rentals of New York has acquired •MTS Group has purchased the first director as well as three new Narushka Quality Rent All. Bobcat T35130S telehandler in the UK. sales directors. • Atlas Maschinen has appointed Industrias Juan F. •IPAF has approved its first training •UK Hire Safe Solutions has purchased a 27m Secco as its material handler dealer for Argentina. centre in New Zealand. Holland Lift scissor lift from AJ Access. Iowa Mold Tooling has appointed London Machinery in• Spider has appointed Mike Russell as Mike •Link-Belt has opened its new Training and • Russell Quality Assurance Centre in Lexington. Quebec and Industrial Truck Equipment in Oklahoma director market development. as dealers. • CTE is introducing a new corporate identity. See www.vertikal.net news archive for full versions of all these stories • JLG has appointed Vertex as its distributor for Russia.

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Two Bronto truck mounts from Nationwide Platforms carrying asas usual?usual? out night time bridge maintenance The mid to large truck mounted platform sector Thanks to heavy investment in is still dominated by three players - Ruthmann, Bronto recent years, Bronto has a major slice of the market for very large and Palfinger - despite the renewed efforts of Italian truck mounted and big insulated manufacturers. Cranes & Access looks at the latest platforms. With this sector growing trends. and the entry level high it is in a very good position. It recently Of the ‘big three’ both Palfinger company Federal Signal has owned completed a nine machine deal Platforms and Bronto have Bronto for 20 years. However a in the UK with Easi Uplifts and if undergone recent company/ Japanese owner may be different. rumours are to be believed it will management changes. The most Bronto could benefit in terms of also extend its XR range into the 65 recent and perhaps the most production and quality management A Ruthmann Steiger TU 285 using to 80 metre range at Bauma in April. significant is the acquisition techniques, areas in which its reach and jib on a property of Bronto by the largest Japanese companies still excel, but Palfinger Platforms roof contract Japanese fire-fighting equipment initially it looks like Morita will gain Palfinger Platforms has also had with 100kg. Hubmeister’s five model manufacturer Morita Holdings last the most from Bronto’s innovative a change of management, with range extends from 16.8 metres to month for €80 million. engineering, strong brand name joint managing directors Sebastian 26.5 metres. German manufacturers Established in 1907 and with annual and international coverage helping Simon for technology and finance, have struggled in the 3.5 tonne revenues of around $600 million, it break out of the mature Japanese and Christian Eiring for sales and export market in the past, primarily Morita made the acquisition to market. service, both taking office last April. because of keen pricing and less provide it with an international Bronto has undergone several Both are new to the access industry complexity from the dominant fire-fighting platform product line management changes over the and it would appear that evolution Italians. Palfinger’s PPI machines and access to a wider international past months which make more rather than revolution is the order compete directly in this market, and market. The acquisition also gives sense since the announcement of of the day as the company looks to Ruthmann has looked at a similar it a full line of dedicated rescue the acquisition. However with the regain the momentum it established solution, but whether the new platforms, to complement its ladder recent growth from Ruthmann, and for its class leading P480NX German entrants can compete only platform range, and takes Morita Palfinger still not quite firing on all (Next Generation) and P550. Both time will tell. managers also seem slightly into the general purpose truck cylinders as its new management The new management team has surprised at the technological mounted lift market. team settles in, coupled with the also restated the Palfinger Platforms’ strength of its major competitors. While the deal looks excellent growing presence of several Italian strategy to be technology leader in for Morita, how will Bronto, manufacturers Bronto could find At the smaller end of its range, the sector, something that it clearly its employees, customers and itself with a bigger fight on its hands the more cost-effective products proved to be possible with the two suppliers fare? Having a foreign than it might have expected six from Palfinger Platforms Italy (PPI) Jumbo NX models. It says that new owner is nothing new - US public months ago. are progressing well, and helping products to be launched at Bauma grow market share and open new will prove that it can continue on Is there going to be a replacement markets and increase exports for for the 103 metre Palfinger the same track, with new models WT 1000 sometime soon? the company. It is hoping that this expected to include a new large gathers even more pace in 2016. chassis which will allow for a This could be made more difficult as successor or replacement for the competition increases in this sector. 103 metre Faun mounted WT 1000. Two new German manufactures - Klaas and Hubmeister - have launched new truck mounted platforms. For aluminium crane manufacturer Klaas this is its first proper truck mounted lift. The 25 metre Theo 25 mounted on a 3.5 tonne chassis has a 250kg platform capacity with an outreach of just over 12 metres or up to 17 metres A Socage TTJ 54

December/January 2016 cranes & access 17 truck mounts c&a The Italians are coming into the North American market. For many years Italian Socage now has an eight model manufacturers have been line-up spanning from 35 to 75 threatening to make serious inroads metres with either one or two jibs - the TJ and TJJ - launching into the larger truck mounted An Oil&Steel Eagle platform market. Several companies, its largest ever truck mount - the S3224 truck mount such as Oil&Steel, Socage and 74.2 metre forSte TJJ75 last year. Multitel have all enjoyed limited Mounted on a 32 tonne four axle success, never quite managing the truck, the new machine has a five major breakthrough. As we have section main boom, four section seen with Ruthmann (see page main jib and a second short 19) having a good product is only articulating jib. Outreach is said half the story, with distribution, to be 40 metres and maximum marketing and after-sales support platform capacity 600kg - with up just as important. to 360 degrees of rotation. A 900kg winch option is also available. Oil & Steel - now owned by US crane company Manitex - will Multitel Pagliero also has an look to capitalise in its Eagle and extensive mid to large truck Eagle Phoenix ranges from 32 to mounted platform range up to the 62 metres with Manitex providing range-topping 75.1 metre MJ 750. Multitel’s largest resources and giving it a good way Its more recent addition in 2014 truck mount the 75.1 however was the metre MJ 750 The new 25 metre Theo 25 from all-new 37.5 metre Klaas is on a 3.5 tonne chassis MJ 375 mounted on up to 26 metres of outreach from machine, which includes a full an 18 tonne chassis its four section main boom and remote diagnostics package, will be with an overall three section articulating jib. The priced competitively and is aimed as length of 8.5 metres new model, which fits between a replacement for the large number and a maximum the company’s 32 metre MJ 320 of ageing 34 metre Bronto machines outrigger spread of and 42 metre MJ420, offers three in rental company fleets. 5.9 metres, or 4.9 working envelopes, with 500, Still a very interesting sector which metres with single 280 or 120kg platform capacity. may become clearer through 2016. side jacking. It offers The company says that the new Watch this space!

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RuthmannRuthmann The 11 metre, 200kg K110 In spite of having being founded 115 years ago and The Ruthmann T190 on a 7.5 tonne producing its first truck mounted platform in 1954, it chassis has a 17 metre outreach was only when new owners took over the company in 2003 that Ruthmann began to develop into the market leader we see today. This transformation stepped up a gear with the appointment of the current management team in 2010. Mark Darwin visited the company to find out more. The German manufacturer has unloading features and Steiger truck set its sights on being the clear mounted platforms. European market leader and The company, founded in the it certainly appears to have predominantly mining area in developed a slick efficiency and 1901, made a variety of products, lift shaft elevators was called the the TTS 1000 was partly responsible in-depth experience to ensure mostly for transporting goods for ‘Steiger’. for a massive financial crisis at the that it is heading in the right the mining and agricultural market, Like any long-established company, company, resulting in continual direction - in 2015 it built around even producing bicycles at one Ruthmann has experienced both downsizing and restructuring 500 platforms. point. However as the coal became the good and not so good times. between 2001 and 2003 during Based in Gescher-Hochmoor about harder to mine - being more than But it was only after the Second which half of its employees were an hour’s drive north of Dusseldorf, 1,000 metres below the surface - it World War that the company really made redundant. The TTS 1000 in North Rhine-Westphalia, became less of an influence but it started to expand. After mining, the was mounted on a six axle trailer Ruthmann has two product ranges has still left its mark. Miners used area was heavily into textiles which chassis and totally unsuitable for - the unusual Cargoloader transport to operate in gangs and the foreman were delivered by train. Ruthmann the European market. Ruthmann had system with its easy loading/ in control of raising everyone up the came up with a unique transport however structured the company solution - the Cargoloader - a vehicle around selling 20 units a year, that allowed goods to be loaded and holding up R&D on other models and unloaded at various levels from the causing the company to virtually factory and onto train wagons. grind to a halt. In 1954 it built its first truck “Only two TTS 1000s were built mounted platform - an eight metre and sold and although both are still working height lattice boom working perfectly - one in the USA with a basket. Two years later it and the other in Malaysia - they produced its first telescopic boom were produced at the wrong time and continued developing truck and for the wrong market,” says mounted lifts, with many significant managing director Rolf Kulawik. milestones and records along the “Building the company around a 100 way, including the first 60 metre metre machine was a big mistake. General manager TTS 590 in 1983 and the 100 Apart from anything else, Ruthmann Uwe Strotmann metre trailer mounted TTS 1000 in was not geared up for exports, with (R) with managing 2001. Unfortunately - or perhaps at that time just five to 10 percent director Rolf of revenues - less than 1 million Kulawik fortunately given what followed - €

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- coming from customers outside has nine years’ experience with Ruthmann has focused mostly on to sell them in Eastern Europe to of Germany, and yet the price for a this technology and its use has three chassis sectors - 3.5, 7.5 build up a market for our premium TTS1000 was about €1.5 million!” spread to other components such and 18 tonnes - and has looked machines.” The company was rescued in 2003 as superstructure weldments. The again at the 3.5 tonne market to “However sales were slower than by Heinrick Winklemann and Heinz- result is both strong and see what was missing or needed. anticipated, several machines were Jurgen Buss who invested in new lightweight, useful with the heavier “It was obvious that everyone in sold into Poland and were very products to bring stability to the chassis brought about by new Europe has a 22 metre machine, but reliable, however we needed to buy company. In 2010 Winklemann’s engine legislation. Ruthmann now most are on larger chassis,” says the manufacturing company and this father died and he felt obliged to run uses high strength Docol 1200M Kulawik. “We wanted a machine proved very difficult. Due to delays the family business - an automotive steel from SSAB - one of the that allows rental companies to and different business practices we supplier with revenues approaching strongest high-strength steels on offer a real 22 metre platform but were unable to pursue this strategy, €700 million. He then appointed the market. that can be driven on a 3.5 tonne particularly because in 2010 to the current management team of “The steel is quite flexible,” driving licence. The smaller chassis 2012 we had a lot of success with general manager Uwe Strotmann, explains Strotmann, “and in the means that the machine can cost our new products developed in managing director Rolf Kulawik and early days competitors said that it 30 percent less than a 7.5 tonne Germany. So yes we have thought commercial director Uwe Strapper. was too thin, easily damaged and truck, but rental rates are the about it to open more markets same. The end result was the 22 Strotmann started working for difficult to repair. Having used it with a quality machine but at a metre TBR 220 which has a 16.4 Ruthmann in 1994 and in 2003 was for several years we have had very lower price point. However, with metre outreach and 230kg platform tasked with growing the export few problems, if anything it resists the success of machines built in capacity, in less than two years we business. He did this with the new impact better than thicker, weaker Germany this has taken a back seat. sold more than 250 units.” TB 180/220 truck mounts launched steel and we get the performance Maybe there is an opportunity in the in 2002, on 3.5 tonne chassis. He required.” ‘Rental’ machines? future if we find the right partner.” also began setting up distributors Product range With many other manufacturers across Europe, including the Ruthmann currently produces offering lower cost ‘rental machines’ company’s Austrian subsidiary its truck mounted lifts from 11 to 72 is this an area Ruthmann is looking only wholly owned distributor. metres and claims to be European to enter? The TB range sold well in France, market leader in the 22 to 72 metre “Six years ago we had the chance the UK, Benelux, Sweden and range on chassis above 3.5 tonnes. to build machines in Hungary via Norway and today’s models Introducing new models has been Teupen Hungary/Power and decided are quite similar but include the a high priority with the team using to build the first TB 220 with folding company’s multi-bend round boom exhibitions such as Platformers outriggers. The goal was a 22 metre profile introduced in 2007. It has Days, Bauma and Conexpo as Ruthmann with a price of a Multitel become the basis for all Ruthmann ‘fixed development points’ for new i.e. good quality and low price,” booms on 3.5 tonne chassis. This product launches. says Strotmann. “We managed to development also allowed the “We are not looking at platforms produce the machine for €65,000 company to develop products above our 72 metre T720,” says saving money on labour and with a such as the 3.5 tonne 27 metre Strotmann. “One of the major cheaper chassis. The quality was Steiger TK 170 TB 270 in 2010. Ruthmann now developing markets for larger truck excellent and the strategy was mounted platforms is the US where The multi-bend round boom profile there is big demand for erecting and The new T170 working on introduced in 2007 has become the a movie set basis for all Ruthmann booms on 3.5 maintaining wind turbines. However tonne chassis with our two major competitors already active and only 30 machine sales forecast over the next 10 years it doesn’t make sense to make the huge R&D investment. We need bread and butter machines. Revenues are driven by product and the most important area was the 7.5 tonne sector, particularly for Germany and the UK to replace the hundreds of older 30 metre machines. We produced the 33 metre T330 in May 2011 and have sold hundreds into both countries, as well as a few into Austria.”

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Market info another manufacturer competing 66 metre Skybird 215l a brand new and sensor outputs. Marketed The markets around Europe for truck with the established big truck insulated truck mount designed globally under the Versalift brand mounted platforms vary enormously. mounted marques. We have had specifically to work on high-voltage name, both manufacturers see In France the 3.5 tonne truck mount good success with machines power lines. The platform is a sizeable worldwide potential. is huge, with Italian companies such from 38 to 72 metres. The new collaborative effort between Time “The co-operation between the two as Multitel dominating. In Germany products have hit the market at and Ruthmann, with the German companies began in 2011 when we sales for the 3.5 tonne machines are the right time. Around 90 percent manufacturer supplying a modified bought the German subsidiary Time- good, but not as good as for larger of the larger models have been kit version of its 72 metre T720. Versalift Deutschland and acquired machines. Over the past two years replacement machines, so I don’t The 500kV-insulated lift features the Versalift dealership for Germany France has been Ruthmann’s best see the market growing too much a five section main boom and a Austria and Switzerland. At the export market - machines such as - apart from the UK which is the fully-insulated telescopic upper same time Time became Ruthmann the TB 270 selling well. At Intermat only market growing for large truck boom. It offers an outreach of 32 dealer for Denmark, Norway and 2014 Ruthmann marked the sale mounts helped by the wind sector, metres with 100kg and a maximum Sweden,” says Strotmann. “This of the 650th TB 270 sold since its particularly in Scotland.” platform capacity of 600kg. Features was a win-win situation for both introduction five years ago. The “In Germany we have the wind in include a 300kg material handler companies. In the US we made landmark machine went to rental the north but the power is needed attachment, fibre optic controls and Time our distributor for the non- company Kiloutou. in the south. There is a move by a clear text display for diagnostics insulated machines but an insulated In the big truck mounted sector the the government against nuclear ‘big three’ - Bronto, Palfinger and power but this requires more green Ruthmann’s partner - Time Manufacturing - launched the Ruthmann - dominate, although energy. The problem is where to put 66 metre Skybird 215l insulated truck mount last year Italian manufacturers such as the turbines and how to transport Multitel and Socage are starting to the power south. This gives work find success for their larger models to truck platforms during erection, outside of their traditional markets. maintenance and working on the transmission grid.” “Manufacturers need a certain number of machine sales to New 66 metre justify the R&D costs and then a insulated boom big investment is needed in after The ICUEE show in Kentucky last sales support,” says Strotmann. September saw Ruthmann’s partner “In the near future I cannot see - Time Manufacturing - launch the

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Mounted on a 7.5 tonne chassis the 17 metre T170 has 12 metres of outreach, 320kg platform capacity and 185 degrees A Steiger T360 carrying out of jib articulation inspections on a theme park ride machine was always on the cards. to offer a replacement for older we can make a machine with jib out It is Time’s home market and they 35 metre platforms with cutting- of the existing 30 metre model and know the customers, machines edge design and state-of-the-art sell 50 units over two years then it and techniques. What they didn’t features. The company claims to is worth doing,” says Strotmann. have was a big, high performance have ground-breaking technology “We launched the TU 285 on a 7.5 platform. Even before the show hidden within its five section boom, tonne chassis with a rear mounted there was interest from China, which is topped by a jib with 185 turret, it has the same outreach as a South and North America, and we degrees of articulation, offering 30 metre machine but three metres hope to sell between five and 10 up to 31 metres of outreach with more to the rear. It is also compact, machines a year just in the US.” 100kg platform capacity, maximum making it attractive to sectors such Can’t stop developing capacity is 350kg. The overall length as window cleaning - where speed of the T360 is 9.47 metres and is money.” True to its development strategy overall height 3.77 metres it claims A Steiger T460 Ruthmann has launched several Willing to listen a healthy 600kg spare payload products over the past six months Ruthmann says that its whole was mainly in the High Performance for drivers, tools and equipment. including the T170 and T360. philosophy is summed up by the range, together with expansion to Both new platforms will feature fact that it is happy to develop new markets such as Australia,” The T170 is aimed at the street Ruthmann’s new operator ‘cockpit’ machines for customers. “If a says Strotmann. “MJ Rental in lighting, tree and power line information and control unit, which customer has a serious suggestion Melbourne purchased two 46 metre clearing, with compact dimensions, has been developed over the past we are not too big a company, so platforms in 2012 and it is now a decent payload and rigid platform. two years and will be available on can react quickly and the answer is taking its 10th big Ruthmann topped Ruthmann says this type of platform every new model. is popular in central Europe, with usually yes,” says Kulawik. “A year with a 63 metre unit. They were a In 2014 it launched the 28 metre TU a population of more than 500 ago we set up a new innovation unit reference customer and from them 285. “We know that 100 Wumag units, many of which have aged as which collects ideas from sales reps we found dealer Nifty-Lift which WT250s were sold, so we said if manufacturers have not offered this (or innovation scouts as we call covers Australia.” type of unit for around eight years, them) and customers who are asked The company has grown revenues and larger 19 to 23 metre platforms what should Ruthmann do next? The from €50 million in 2010 to €109 do not offer the required payload. more feedback we get the better.” million in 2014 made up of €75 Mounted on a 7.5 tonne chassis the “In 2012 there were a lot of changes million of new product sales - 17 metre T170 has 12 metres of in the company however we are including Versalift - €13 million outreach, 320kg platform capacity now a better organisation - more of service, €15 million Ruthmann and 185 degrees of jib articulation. able to react and more efficient with finance and€ 6 million from With an overall weight of 6,900kg it New platforms will feature reduced costs. We are now really Ruthmann Austria. It says that offers a cargo capacity of 600kg. Ruthmann’s new operator ‘cockpit’ competitive with a great company 2015 will be at least as good. You information and control unit, which spirit, well designed products and a cannot fail to be impressed with The new 36 metre T360 for 15 has been developed over the past great service network - particularly the way Ruthmann goes about its tonnes chassis and above, aims two years in our home market.” business. The company is certainly A pre-production 10 percent of Ruthmann’s 400 determined to be the clear 36 metre T360 spied strong workforce are currently on market leader and looks well at the factory a three-year part-time ‘electro- placed to succeed. mechanics’ apprenticeship scheme, and when finished will be placed in the assembly or aftersales divisions. It has also upgraded its senior technical staff and now boasts four with PhDs in electronics and hydraulics. Performance overseas Ruthmann’s main growth in recent years has come from new products and overseas expansion. “Developments in 2013 and 2014 A Steiger T300

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c&a 2015 rental rates survey AA positivepositive mixedmixed yearyear Our annual survey of rental rates in the UK and Ireland - now in its 15th year - received another solid response from our rental company reader, helping provide an interesting and quite telling overview of the market. While not as positive as this time last year, it remains encouraging overall. The vast majority of respondents reported that rates during the year stayed the same or improved, although a slower second half probably tempered views of Crane rates how the year was for many respondents. In spite of Crane hire rate trends this most are more optimistic for 2016, and in many cases intend to continue to expand their fleets. This Crane hire rates over the Crane hire rates during the is almost certainly driven by strong utilisation levels past 12 months have: next 12 months will: during the year, but perhaps it might be better if these 16% 0% high activity levels pushed rates higher, rather than decreased decrease (0%) encouraging too much expansion? We welcome your (4%) 39% 43% (35%) 61% comments and questions. (61%) 41% (35%) (55%)

(2014 results) Rates have not performed as well in 2015 as they did in 2014 in terms of growth and in some areas there were signs of a fall-back. In spite of this most companies are positive for the new year with the majority expecting them to rise. Crane fleet size Crane fleet size over the past Crane fleet size over the next 12 months have: 12 months will: 0% 0% decreased decrease 39% (0%) 36% (0%) (19%) (75%) 64% 61% (25%) (81%)

(2014 results) The vast majority of crane owners expanded fleet size in 2015 as a result of better rates, more work and a catch-up from the recession. For 2016 companies are more focused on consolidating the improvements and replacing rather than expanding. A mature reaction to the market.

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December/January 2016 cranes & access 25 2015 rental rates survey c&a Crane rental rates From last year rates have gone Daily rates for mobile cranes up down same new category Crane size Average lowest Highest ideal Utilisation and percentage Under 30 tonnes £476 £400 £510 £515 of initial cost 30 to 45 tonnes £527 £440 £600 £588 Mobile cranes 50 to 65 tonnes £632 £600 £680 £700 70 to 85 tonnes £787 £700 £880 £846 Utilisation Average rate as Crane size Average lowest Highest % of initial cost 95 to 125 tonnes £1,170 £980 £1,500 £1,408 Under 30 tonnes 69% 20% 85% 0.8% 135 to 200 tonnes £2,163 £1,800 £2,700 £2,451 30 to 45 tonnes 79% 70% 85% 0.8% 210 to 350 tonnes £3,661 £2,500 £5,000 £3,420 50 to 65 tonnes 79% 70% 85% 0.8% 350 to 600 tonnes £4,624 £4,250 £5,500 £8,219 70 to 85 tonnes 70% 55% 90% 0.9% Over 600 tonnes £15,293 £14,500 £17,500 £18,210 95 to 125 tonnes 68% 55% 65% 0.8% Mobile Tower (4 to 5 axles) £1,240 £1,000 £1,500 £1,600 135 to 200 tonnes 76% 60% 85% 0.9% Mobile Tower (6 to 7 axles) £1,983 £1,850 £2,100 £2,850 210 to 350 tonnes 73% 50% 90% 0.7% Weekly rates for crawler cranes 350 to 600 tonnes 80% 75% 90% • Crane size - Operated Average lowest Highest ideal Over 600 tonnes • • • • Up to 50 tonnes £2,250 £1,950 £2,750 £3,225 Mobile Tower (4 - 5 axles) 77% 70% 50% • 50 to 60 tonnes £1,650 £1,600 £1,700 £2,038 Mobile Tower (6 - 7 axles) 83% 70% 90% • 70 to 80 tonnes £2,978 £1,850 £2,750 £3,720 Crawler cranes • = Insufficient Data 90 to 100 tonnes £2,773 £2,250 £3,210 £4,500 Utilisation Average rate as 120 to 150 tonnes £3,209 £2,950 £3,750 £5,920 Crane size Average lowest Highest % of initial cost 180 to 250 tonnes £5,316 £5,000 £5,500 £6,000 Up to 50 tonnes 78% 65% 85% 0.8% Weekly rates for tower cranes 50 to 60 tonnes 64% 50% 75% 0.7% 70 to 80 tonnes 72% 60% 80% 0.6% Flat tops and saddle jibs Average lowest Highest ideal 90 to 100 tonnes 81% 70% 90% 0.6% Less than 70t/m £623 £600 £750 £850 120 to 150 tonnes 83% 80% 85% 0.6% 120t/m £1,147 £900 £1,200 £1,350 180 to 250 tonnes 60% 50% 75% 0.4% 200t/m £1,469 £1,350 £1,500 £1,650 300t/m £2,061 £1,500 £2,250 £2,312 Tower cranes Luffers Average lowest Highest ideal Utilisation Average rate as Less than 70t/m £1,371 £1,200 £1,600 £1,530 Flat tops and saddle jibs Average lowest Highest % of initial cost 100t/m £1,628 £1,450 £2,100 £2,131 Less than 70t/m 71% 65% 85% 0.7% 180t/m £2,250 £2,000 £2,750 £2,730 120t/m 78% 80% 85% 0.7% 300t/m £2,666 £2,500 £3,600 £4,700 200t/m 80% 75% 90% 0.5% Self Erectors Average lowest Highest ideal 300t/m 80% 75% 90% 0.6% Self Erectors £823 £675 £995 £1,022 Utilisation Average rate as Weekly rates of other cranes Luffers Average lowest Highest % of initial cost Crane size Average lowest Highest ideal Less than 70t/m 92% 85% 100% 0.6% Pick & Carry £1,246 £500 £2,300 £1,550 100t/m 90% 80% 95% 0.7% Spider cranes (< 5 tonnes) £1,472 £750 £2,450 £1,800 180t/m 90% 85% 95% 0.7% Spider cranes (> 5 tonnes) £1,789 £950 £2,650 £2,100 300t/m 75% 60% 85% 0.9%

Utilisation Average rate as Self erectors Average lowest Highest % of initial cost Self Erectors 76% 65% 80% 0.8%

Other cranes Utilisation Average rate as Crane type Average lowest Highest % of initial cost Pick & Carry 52% 30% 80% 1.5% Spider cranes (< 5 tonnes) 75% 55% 90% 1.2% Spider cranes (> 5 tonnes) 81% 70% 90% 1.2%

26 cranes & access December/January 2016 c&a 2015 rental rates survey Would you Do you employ recommend the any female crane crane hire industry operators? What percentage 2% of your jobs are to your children? (3%) contract lifts? 22% (46%) 98% (97%) 33% 78% (54%) (34%) 67% (66%) (2014 results)

(2014 results) Yes No No change here, in spite of some Yes No (2014 results) positive news articles during the Predictably the improvements in year about women operators. It the industry and opportunities for is more down to the number of Contract lifts Pure crane hire the next few years has encouraged applicants, rather than a resistance more companies to tick the yes box. from crane companies. Little change in this area with around two thirds of all lifts Should cranes be subject to MOT’s? remaining as pure crane hire. (2014 results)

28% Yes No Who does your Thorough Examinations? (41%) 72% (59%) A strong surge towards the Yes 25% camp possibly due to the publicity (28%) surrounding the Baldwins corporate Third party In house manslaughter trial at the time (2014 results) 75% companies were responding? (72%) What percentage of your operators are?

15% (25%) Employed Freelance 85% (2014 results) (75%) This now seems an almost dead question, the threat towards agency drivers seems to have shifted back towards full time operators. Average fleet age in years Average lowest Highest Respondent’s comments 7.4 (6.7) 4 (3) 15 (12) “Rates are getting a little better but historically they are still ridiculous, the “A lot of cranes have been taken smarter companies are managing to make a decent return though.” out of the marketplace over the past few years and this is helping with “Rental rates are better but still not “Rates in the UK are so low and keeping rates up. Companies are still at levels that justify the massive underselling themselves. How many everyone wants new equipment investment required. Crane hire that it’s always safety that takes companies charge cancellations - companies must stop being busy and do they claim them even from a bashing. Something has to give, fools and relying on employees to whilst I appreciate it’s not an other crane hire companies when work all hours that god gives to cross hiring?” excuse, owners are under pressure make it work.” to stay in business and in doing so “Lack of even routine maintenance is an inherent problem within the they risk compromise or at least industry, poor hire rates result in little available down time for machines to some people in the organisation be worked on. Crane hire companies just don’t have the financial resources do. Main clients should stop to stand the cranes down for routine maintenance to be carried out. Road being cheapskates and protect accidents like the tragic 500 tonne Baldwin one will continue to happen the industry by paying the right unless some form ofThe MOT JLG is 530LRT introduced.” money.”

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Powered Access c&a 2015 rental rates survey rates Rate trends Decreased Stayed the same Increased Access rates over the Access rates during the past 12 months have: next 12 months will: 8% 18% decrease 27% (11%) (0%) (57%) 54% 38% 55% (83%) (17%) (32%)

(2014 results) Rental rate growth has clearly slowed with some respondents reporting a slip back in some categories. However the vast majority report stability which is even more positive given the fact that fleets have grown and a number of rapidly growing new entrants have joined the market. The vast majority of respondents are positive for 2016 which given the slower third Push around scissor lifts quarter last year is encouraging. Platform Height Average lowest Highest ideal Push Arounds £47 £35 £70 £81 Fleet trends Portable £114 £52 £185 £200 Fleet size over the Fleet size over the past 12 months have: next 12 months will: Diesel/bi-energy scissor lifts 9% 0% Platform Height Average lowest Highest ideal decreased decrease 8 metres (26ft) £189 £152 £240 £202 (0%) 28% (3%) 28% (15%) 9-10 metres (30-33ft) £223 £159 £290 £233 (18%) 63% 11-12 metres (36-42ft) £236 £165 £290 £261 (82%) 72% (82%) 13-17 metres (43-56ft) £293 £180 £350 £345 17-22 metres £296 £225 £300 £350 (2014 results) Over 22 metres £782 £730 £800 £899 Fleet expansion has slowed a little compared to last year, but the majority of respondents still reported further growth in 2015. A surprising 72 percent plan Electric self-propelled booms to continue this in 2016 in spite of the fact that only half believe there is any Platform Height Average lowest Highest ideal chance of rates improving and while a gap still exists between actual rental rates and ideal rates. Under 11 metres £237 £220 £255 £320 10-12.5 metres (32-40ft) £236 £200 £380 £290 Over 14 metre (45ft plus) £321 £240 £475 £426 Mast booms Platform Height Average lowest Highest ideal 8 metres £161 £155 £170 £320 10 metres £209 £160 £280 £279 Rough Terrain articulated booms Platform Height Average lowest Highest ideal Weekly rental rates 12-14 metres (39-45ft) £230 £200 £350 £291 From last year rates have gone by general category 15-16 metres (49-52ft) £257 £220 £295 £321 up down same new 17-19 metres (56-62ft) £339 £235 £450 £377 Electric self-propelled scissor lifts category 20-23 metres (65-70ft) £399 £350 £590 £452 Platform Height Average lowest Highest ideal 24-26 metres (80-86ft) £593 £396 £980 £783 Under 5 metres £88 £45 £130 £109 Over 27 metres £1,212 £1,104 £1,350 £1,656 6 metres (19/20ft) £106 £75 £150 £132 8 metres (26ft) £139 £117 £190 £168 Straight telescopic booms 9-10 metres (30-33ft) £141 £115 £240 £196 Platform Height Average lowest Highest ideal 11-12 metres (36-39ft) £214 £170 £240 £251 Under 17 metres (40-46ft) £228 £210 £265 £329 13-17 metres (42-55ft) £271 £175 £480 £278 20-23 metres (60-70ft) £387 £300 £423 £494 17-22 metres £528 £495 £585 £600 24-26 metres (80-86ft) £498 £500 £570 £691 Over 22 metres £733 £635 £780 £833 Over 27 metres £1,202 £1,025 £1,500 £1,532

December/January 2016 cranes & access 29 2015 rental rates survey & Utilisation and Returns c a Electric self-propelled scissor lifts Utilisation Average rate as Weekly rental rates by general Platform Height Average lowest Highest % of initial cost From last year rates have gone category (continued) Under 5 metres 71% 60% 75% 1.7% up down same new 6 metres (19/20ft) 69% 65% 75% 1.8% Trailer lifts category 8 metres (26ft) 72% 68% 78% 1.4% Platform Height Average lowest Highest ideal 9-10 metres (30-33ft) 73% 66% 80% 1.5% 12-13 metres (30-38ft) £187 £185 £320 £267 11-12 metres (36-39ft) 69% 50% 81% 1.6% 17 metres (50ft) £349 £220 £600 £333 13-17 metres (42-55ft) 82% 45% 90% 1.2% Over 20 metres No Data No Data No Data £575 17-22 metres 71% 56% 75% 1.0% Spider lifts Over 22 metres 77% 75% 81% 1.0%

Platform Height Average lowest Highest ideal Push around scissor lifts Up to 15 metres £435 £160 £600 £521 Utilisation Average rate as 16-20 metres £663 £220 £800 £810 Platform Height Average lowest Highest % of initial cost 20-25 metres £1,122 £800 £1,920 £1,472 Push Arounds 63% 49% 78% 1.5% 26-35 metres £1,789 £1,650 £1,800 £2,108 Portable 71% 60% 90% 2.2% Over 35 metres £2,120 £2,000 £2,200 £2,599 Diesel bi-energy scissor lifts Utilisation Average rate as Platform Height Average lowest Highest % of initial cost 8 metres (26ft) 78% 52% 78% 0.9% 9-10 metres (30-33ft) 79% 66% 87% 0.9% 11-12 metres (36-42ft) 74% 60% 82% 0.7% 13-17 metres (43-56ft) 76% 60% 88% 0.6% 17-22 metres 74% 65% 86% 0.7% Over 22 metres 72% 60% 80% 0.8% Electric self-propelled booms Van mounts - Weekly rates Utilisation Average rate as Platform Height Average lowest Highest % of initial cost Platform Height Average lowest Highest ideal Under 11 metres 76% 60% 78% 1.1% Up to 13 metres £374 £350 £410 £405 10-12 metres (32-40ft) 74% 65% 76% 1.0% 13 to 17 metres £482 £375 £550 £506 Over 14 metre (45ft plus) 81% 68% 92% 0.9% Over 17 metres £661 £625 £725 £932 Mast booms Daily rates Truck mounts - Utilisation Average rate as Platform Height Average lowest Highest ideal Platform Height Average lowest Highest % of initial cost under 25 self drive £221 £154 £305 £309 8 metres 60% 45% 80% 1.1% 22-35m with operator £397 £390 £450 £491 10 metres 71% 53% 80% 1.6% 36-45 metres £677 £550 £900 £894 46-70 metres £1,106 £975 £1,350 £1,650 RT articulated booms Over 70 metres £2,492 £2,250 £2,500 £3,430 Utilisation Average rate as Platform Height Average lowest Highest % of initial cost While rates have improved in 2014 it is still from a low level. Increased 12-14 metres (39-45ft) 55% 30% 75% 1.2% costs - deliveries, fuel, maintenance etc - coupled with higher prices for new machines, means that margins are still tight. Although rates are holding up, 15-16 metres (49-52ft) 73% 50% 86% 0.9% the general view is that there is still room for improvement. 17-19 metres (56-62ft) 76% 60% 85% 0.8% 20-23 metres (65-70ft) 86% 68% 92% 0.6% 24-26 metres (80-86ft) 79% 57% 89% 0.6% Over 27 metres 72% 55% 82% 1.0%

30 cranes & access December/January 2016 c&a 2015 rental rates survey Straight telescopic booms Utilisation Average rate as Platform Height Average lowest Highest % of initial cost Under 17 metres (40-46ft) 82% 43% 95% 0.7% 20-23 metres (60-70ft) 76% 61% 88% 0.7% 24-26 metres (80-86ft) 77% 68% 80% 0.7% Over 27 metres 69% 55% 85% 1.0% Trailer lifts

Utilisation Average rate as Platform Height Average lowest Highest % of initial cost 12-13 metres (30-38ft) 52% 36% 65% 1.6% 17 metres (50ft) 49% 18% 65% 2.5% Over 20 metres No Data No Data No Data No Data Spider lifts Utilisation Average rate as Platform Height Average lowest Highest % of initial cost Up to 15 metres 44% 10% 60% 1.4% 16-20 metres 54% 26% 75% 1.7% 20-25 metres 56% 21% 80% 2.1% 26-35 metres 57% 45% 65% 1.4% Over 35 metres 63% 50% 66% 1.1% Van mounts Utilisation Average rate as Platform Height Average lowest Highest % of initial cost Up to 13 metres 66% 50% 86% 1.2% 13 to 17 metres 63% 40% 85% 1.1% Over 17 metres 74% 65% 70% 1.2% Truck mounts Utilisation Average rate as Platform Height Average lowest Highest % of initial cost 3.5 tonne chassis 64% 49% 75% 0.7% 7.5 tonne chassis 73% 55% 80% 0.9% Would you Who does your 36-45 metres 71% 57% 75% 1.4% recommend the Loler Thorough 46-70 metres 66% 58% 75% 1.2% Over 70 metres 88% 80% 90% 1.4% access industry to Examinations? your children? 32% (23%)

68% 39% (77%) (22%) 61% (78%)

(2014 results)

Third party In house (2014 results) The trend towards third party Yes No inspections continued after stalling A surprising upturn in the number last year, but this also hides the fact of respondents answering No to that a number of companies use both this question possibly indicating a methods. Next year we will modify tougher four or five months leading the question. up to the survey? Average lowest Highest Average fleet age in years 3.4 (3.7) 2 (1) 5.9 (8)

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Telescopic handler rental rates Rate trends Decreased Stayed the same Increased In the past 12 months In the next 12 months rental rates have: rental rates will: 14% 0% decreased decrease 27% 24% (0%) (10%) Access respondent’s comments (34%) (57%) 73% “Machine manufacturers must not, whatever they do, bow to pressure from 62% (43%) the slicker operators who push them for silly deals. If these guys would use (66%) the advantages of a good deal to make a bigger margin that would be fine, but they don’t they just use it to justify price cutting. And some of the worst (2014 results) offenders are those on their second time round who ought to know better. Rate growth slowed compared to last year as a large number of new They are just looking for a quick buck and ego satisfaction.” machines were added and the catch-up from the slow-down came into balance. Overall it looks like rates stalled although the story is different for “In the last four to five months “Some of the national companies each size of machine. It is interesting to note that no one expects rates to there have been a number of are saying one thing and then doing fall this year, but then that was also the case last year and yet 14 percent new machines hitting the market. the opposite, in one case they told of respondents did experience lower rates. This year more respondents The UK is becoming saturated their local staff to take the business are taking a pragmatic view that rates will stagnate, possibly because and the only thing that will suffer from us no matter what the price - rates are reaching levels that our respondents consider to be ‘ideal’. will be rental rates and returns, even if it was free.” which accordingly will reflect in Fleet size corners being cut from a safety “There is a change going on with In the past 12 months In the next 12 months and inspection perspective. better construction companies rental rates have: rental rates will: Manufacturers prices are not being beginning to understand that reflected in rental rates and the 0% 0% messing about with cut-price rates 44% quality of salesmanship amongst decrease decrease amounts to a good deal less than (0%) (17%) (0%) the ‘Nationals’ is lamentable. 46% the cost of chopping and changing 54% Additionally, too many incredibly (42%) between suppliers. I hope that this (58%) 56% greedy individuals who have made is a trend that will continue and (83%) their money first time around grow.” have come back into the market, which is not helping. Quality of (2014 results) service is everything and too many “This has been a good year - a bit Every respondent maintained or increased fleet size this year and organisations are running too soft in the autumn, but good - as we interestingly the average age of equipment dropped significantly, possibly close to the edge and we feel that go over the winter everyone needs due to one or two aging fleets dropping out or not responding. For 2016 the there will be casualties in the near to hold their nerve and demand a fair industry looks divided between maintaining fleets at this year’s levels and future.” price for a good service and good kit.” expanding them. No-one admitted to cut-back plans.

“Rates for big truck mounts are improving despite the increase in the machines on the market in the past two years. Hire companies that re-rent still seem to have a problem checking the rate with a specialist before quoting their customer!”

“We are not prepared to disclose our average rates or utilisation but I know that we achieve much better rates than some/most of our competitors and better rates than what we are often accused of. The market needs to up its game, I have filled in the generic questions, hope this of some use.”

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2015 rental rates survey c&a 31% Who does your LOLER (29%) Thorough Examinations? 69% (71%)

(2014 results) Third party In house

Very little change here with around two thirds preferring to do them in-house.

Average fleet age Average lowest Highest in years 3.2 (3.1) 1 (1) 6 (12) What other products do you provide?

Cranes Access General Plant Tools 9% (3.1) 36% (28) 44% (41) 21% (23) Weekly rental rates From last year rates have gone This was intended to determine any trends in the type of rental company for telehandlers that offer telehandlers given that is not a specialist item like access and up down same new Fixed frame category cranes. Clearly the majors such as Hewden, A-Plant and HSS influence this in that they all offer access and telehandlers. The combination of access and Lift height Average lowest Highest ideal telehandlers is growing, probably more driven but the national generalists Under 5 metres £247 £210 £290 £303 and telehandler rental companies getting into access, rather than access 5 to 7 metres £267 £205 £325 £330 companies getting into telehandlers. 8 to 10 metres £299 £230 £395 £335 11 to 13 metres £322 £250 £425 £399 14 to 15 metres £347 £275 £450 £429 16 to 18 metres £457 £390 £535 £529 Over 18 metres £662 £650 £700 £778 360 degree Lift height Average lowest Highest ideal Under 20 metres £721 £675 £800 £822 20 to 25 metres £1,010 £900 £1,100 £1,316 Over 25 metres £1,302 £1,150 £1,500 £1,604 Utilisation and return on investment Fixed frame Respondent’s comments Utilisation Average rate as “Business has been good this year with a lot more happening, but too many Lift height Average lowest Highest % of initial cost machines at the smaller end now and some companies - and they know who Under 5 metres 79% 65% 95% 0.7% they are - are dropping the price to keep them busy.” 5 to 7 metres 76% 70% 85% 0.8% “Funny year 2015 - not bad “We have been buying teles this year 8 to 10 metres 78% 63% 85% 0.8% but I’m not as optimistic as and have added a good few to the fleet 11 to 13 metres 77% 65% 90% 0.7% when I did this a year ago - building it back to what we had before 14 to 15 metres 83% 74% 95% 0.9% can’t put my finger on it but the crash. Rates need to go up still. We 16 to 18 metres 80% 75% 85% 0.8% maybe too many changes up are going to add some rotos this year in the air?” that’ll be interesting!” Over 18 metres 93% 85% 100% 1.1% 360 degree “The big thing for next year (2016) is what happens with the big merger you have to hope it will add more stability to rates or even be a positive influence Utilisation Average rate as but not holding my breath.” Lift height Average lowest Highest % of initial cost Under 20 metres 74% 65% 80% 0.7% Comment from a contractor/reader – not sector specific I see you are looking for information on the rate guide again, I wanted to 20 to 25 metres 76% 70% 80% 0.8% say that this is always an enjoyable read in so many ways. As an outsider Over 25 metres 88% 80% 100% 0.9% which regular hires equipment I can tell you that suppliers are their own From last year rates have gone worst enemy, they don’t have enough respect for the service they provide, Percentage of units going out well some of them! We can get the same or sometimes better prices from with work platform attachments: up down same new the best players - it’s like buying a Beamer at a Lada price. Great for us but category Type Average lowest Highest you have to worry how long they can go on like this. Great for us, but it is more important for us that they maintain the service and continuity and I Fixed frame 2.0% 0% 5% am not sure that some can. Just look at some of the experimentation going 360 degree 9.0% 0% 20% on. Enough said, keep up the good work.

34 cranes & access December/January 2016 CrawlerCrawler c&a telescopic crawlers telescopicstelescopics onon thethe rightright tracktrack In recent years telescopic crawler cranes have probably been the fastest growing sector of the full size crane market - at least in terms of new product introductions. This is a real turnaround, as for many A 100 tonne Liebherr LTR 1100 years this sector was beyond niche, with only a few specialist players in the market, as most crane buyers Liebherr says that it ceased of them. After all the whole purpose preferred wheeled telescopics and lattice boomed production of the LTR 11200 of a telescopic boom on a crane because most customers preferred was that could travel on board crawlers. And as new lattice crawlers became ever the LTM 112000-9.1 All Terrain and with the crane and then extend easier to transport and rig, the telescopic crawler more recently the 750 tonne LTM quickly once on site, ready to work seemed even less viable a proposition. However small 1750-9.1 for turbine installation in minutes without the need for crawlers - up to about eight or 12 tonnes - began work. The higher wind turbines are boom rigging or additional people also better suited to lattice boom and vehicles - perfect for quick lifts to find favour with rental companies in Japan and crawlers in the 600 to 750 tonne and creating the ‘taxi crane’ market. gradually elsewhere. This minor trend - spurred on by class than a 1,200 tonne telescopic. The down side of course was that the increasing popularity of spider cranes - seemed to A few high profile telescopic boom capacities simply did not compare collapses due to wind/swinging with the lattice equivalents. For encourage buyers to take a more open minded view loads also put some buyers off, with many years a 25 tonne telescopic towards telescopic crawler cranes. the notion that a cable supported was no match whatsoever for a 25 lattice boom was more tolerant of tonne lattice crane. A crane that As the demand for mobile cranes on site while rigged. Initially such conditions. had to be transported to site on the to have longer booms and greater capacities ranged from 20 to back of a truck was likely to stay a capacities grew while remaining So why are telescopic crawler around the 80 tonnes or so, but while and so it made no sense at all fully road legal and compact - so cranes increasing in popularity in Liebherr appeared to blow that to equip it with an inferior telescopic their set-up time and logistics to the lower capacity ranges? The wide open with its 1,200 tonne boom. For jobs where there was a get to site increased, narrowing number of models on offer between LTR 11200 and its 100 metre compelling reason for a telescopic the gap between an All Terrain 40 and 150 tonnes has blossomed boom in 2009. The LTR 11200 boom crane, the Rough Terrain and a telescopic crawler in has recently been discontinued, as have the number of companies terms of transport and set up but remains the largest capacity producing them. Two of the main costs. Other advantages of the telescopic crawler ever made. reasons is that they are relatively Sennebogen surprised many with telescopic crawler also began Its ‘baby’ brother the 220 tonne easy to transport and are ready to work in a relatively short space its 120 tonne 6113E to be appreciated such as their Liebherr’s LTM 1220 is currently with 40 metre full smaller working footprint, pick & the largest made. of time. Once on site the crawler power boom carry duties and ability to travel undercarriage provides low ground bearing pressures and decent pick & carry duties. Add in a compact operating footprint and the absence of outriggers pads and mats or need for temporary access roads and the economics begin to look very good for many applications. History lesson Telescopic crawler cranes have been around for a good deal longer than many people realise, although in the early days most crane buyers The 100 tonne Link-Belt TCC 1100 simply did not understand the point

December/January 2016 cranes & access 35 telescopic crawlers c&a

A Cranemaster Mantis 200RS

A 25 tonne Marchetti available in the UK from AGD Equipment A Tadano Mantis 15010 from AmQuip carrying out general construction duties crane moved faster, was lighter and the market in the early 1980s such less expensive. as Spandeck-Mantis in the USA and Crawler cranes do however offer IHI in Japan. very low ground bearing pressures Both companies took the product and can handle more challenging more seriously, finding that there terrain than any wheeled crane. was demand for crawlers with They are also more adept at heavy duty telescopic booms for travelling with their booms and heavy wall construction or in Japan jibs in place and are more stable duty cycle work, including pile for pick & carry applications. driving. The relatively short main However another fact likely to booms featured substantial overlaps have slowed the development between sections and heavy duty of telescopic crawlers was their wear pads that could cope with substantially higher price compared abuse, allowing the booms to cope to the abundant cheap small lattice with lifting and travelling with the crawler cranes on the market - both chassis out of level. The designs new and used - while plenty of were driven by the principal that it Mantis in its other cranes - a process rental companies owning older was unrealistic to think users would Mantis telescopic crawler cranes that can take a long time if the crawlers in their fleets were happy try - let alone be able - to level a were launched in 1979 after company’s acquisition of Faun to rent them out at very keen prices crawler crane to within one degree manufacturing company Spandeck is anything to go by. However, especially on long-term contracts. on most job sites. These super acquired the rights to the Turtle earlier this year Tadano invested Rental companies only purchased tough booms were useful bases Telescopic cranes and introduced $2.5 million to expand the Mantis a telescopic crawler for specific for jibs and other applications such a nine and 11.9 tonne models. The crawler crane plant in Richlands, customer requirements, such as as clamshell and grapple work or company went on to introduce Virginia in anticipation of stepping jobs where a crawler crane with pile driving - applications that were further models and also entered the up production as it begins to market telescopic boom was essential such normally a no-no for telescopics. special mobile cranes for re-railing the products more widely. as on larger tunnel contracts, or Contracts that needed a crawler and recovering locomotives as In spite of this Tadano does not where a crane had to move back crane for a wide range of lifts with well as a number of other special seem to be in any particular rush and forth through an area with short and long booms also found heavy duty cranes. Spandeck and clearly the traditional Mantis overhead obstructions. While most that telescopics could compete on was acquired by Tadano from the buyers were already happy. For the telescopic crane manufacturers duties as they could retract their Mitchell family in December 2008 North American market, Mantis has dabbled in the market, producing booms in seconds to handle heavy and is gradually being integrated a range of eight models from 30 to the one-off specials, they tended to loads, while lattice booms would into the business. The crawler crane 130 tons but it is only the largest use existing superstructures bolted have to be re-rigged which was line now ranges from 27 to 120 GTC-1200 which is a true global to an existing chassis. Grove was time consuming and costly. tonnes. Tadano-type machine. Apart from one of the first in the market as far The principle participants in the Since acquiring Spandeck, Tadano the GTC-1200 the Tadano offers back as 1967, along with Coles market have all launched new as done very little with it apart three other machines internationally in the UK and Kato in Japan. The cranes in the last year or two, here from working on raising quality - the GTC 300, 400 and 700EX - market developed slowly with a few is a brief round up. and reliability levels to those found with capacities of 27, 40 and 70 specialist manufacturers entering tonnes. Given the well-established

The Grove GHC130 At the smaller tilting cab end - a Maeda LC 383

The new Grove GHC75 lifting on a gradient MAIT launched the 28 tonne T28 last October

36 cranes & access December/January 2016 telescopic crawlers c&a Mantis name in North America it almost 15 tonnes leading to more may be many years before they are costly transportation. completely absorbed and rebranded Liebherr line-up as Tadanos as has now happened at Now that the world’s largest Tadano-Faun. telescopic crawler crane - the 1,200 Smaller end of the market tonne Liebherr LTR 11200 - is no Japanese spider crane company more, the company’s current range Maeda is re-engineering its mini comprises the 60 tonne LTR 1060, crawler crane line, and changing the 100 tonne LTR 1100 and the 220 the nomenclature from LC to CC. tonne LTR 1220. The company has The LC was originally used because confirmed that it will not launch any the cranes used a Komatsu LC new telescopic crawler cranes at excavator undercarriage. The new Bauma, saying that it is quite happy CC models will be built on Maeda with the existing three model range, undercarriages and use tier 3B/4 with sales particularly good in the Liebherr LTR 11200 compliant Isuzu engines. Hence USA, Germany, Australia, UAE, Link-Belt 1100 the LC1385 will be replaced by the Russia, Belgium and the UK. A Maeda LC 1385 CC1485 and the 4.9 tonne capacity The company produced its first LC 785B will become the CC985. standard series production Fussey Piling with The first CC1485 was scheduled telescopic crawler - an LTR 1100 its new 50 tonne Sennebogen 653R to be shipped at the end of 2015 in 2005. However, it had built a and has been sold to Heli in telescopic crawler previously - a Belgium, with the second and third one-off special of its 800 tonne Hartinger Liebherr units sold in the UK to mini crane LTM 1800 for a Japanese company LTR 11200 rental company NRC and another in 1990 - using the crawler base un-named user. So far the LC1385 from its LR 1550 lattice crane. has had limited success, however The LTR 1100 followed a similar the change of engine is attracting route - combining the LTM1100 more interest. The new CC1485 will AT crane superstructure with the be lighter as it dispenses with the undercarriage of the lattice boomed front blade but even so still weighs LR1100, while full production

38 cranes & access December/January 2016 Weimann’s Liebherr LTR 1100 lifting pre cast concrete sewage pipes

machine, its development was Sennebogen spurred on by another request for a 653E special. The LTR 11200 followed a similar route using the 100 metre boom and superstructure from the LTM 11200-9.1 All Terrain crane. It was primarily aimed at the wind turbine erection sector however as explained above, increasing hub heights have meant that other cranes are now better suited to the task than the LTR 11200. Wind power plant manufacturer Enercon suggested Liebherr develop the telescopic crawler crane on a narrow track crawler chassis, which allows for some mis-use almost is optimised for travelling in a fully factoring in that it will be abused assembled state on the narrow and operated when off level. Crawler roads typically found on wind farms. cranes with these long booms are The extended crawler width is 4.8 more for specific lifting jobs, with metres and for full crane operation substantial drop off of duties when the LTR 11200 is supported on operating out of level, and if used in a cruciform outrigger base of 13 this manner when fully extended are metres by 13 metres. The boom likely to buckle. systems with Y-suspension as well Sennebogen as the fixed and luffing lattice fly jibs were well-known from the LTM A year ago, German crane and 11200-9.1 are also incorporated material handling manufacturer in the crawler version of the 1200 Sennebogen unveiled its new 120 tonne capacity crane. tonne telescopic crawler crane - the 6113E. Earlier hints from the One issue with using a company suggested the crane ‘thoroughbred’, high strength, thin would have a 100 tonne capacity, walled boom designed for road but Sennebogen increased this by going All Terrains on a crawler a further 20 tonnes making it 50 chassis is how well it will it cope percent bigger than its previous with the dynamic loading of pick largest crane, the 80 tonne 683. and carry applications and the side While Sennebogen manufactured loadings that can occur in typical its first telescopic crawler crane in crawler type work. Mantis’ design, 1978, this was more of a special, as we have already mentioned, it began series production units in 1992 and now has a six model The new 125 tonne range running from eight to 120 Link-Belt TCC-1400 is tonnes. the company’s largest telescopic crawler. The 6113E has a four section, 40 metre, full power boom with a three stage telescopic cylinder and a choice of an eight or 15 metre jibs and 12 metre lattice boom extensions, its maximum system height is 70 metres. The 6113E can also pick & carry 100 percent of its load and can work - with

December/January 2016 cranes & access 39 partnership with Sennebogen at the telescopic crawlers c&a start of 2015. It branded three new cranes - the 50 tonne GCH55, the A Liebherr LTR Marchetti makes a very 70 tonne GCH75 and the 120 tonne 1060 on loading nice 25 tonne machine GCH130 - with 30.4, 36 and 40 duties which is perfect for metre main booms. The cranes are restricted access sites. based on Sennebogen’s standard The smallest Sennebogen 653, 673 and 6113 telescopic is 40 tonnes. Both crawler cranes and will be built make a 70 tonner, but alongside them at the Sennebogen they are quite different plant in Straubing, Germany. The Grove badged units are sold machines - the Marchetti Sennebogen 673 has outriggers, is much exclusively in North and South lighter and has a longer America, and will be fully supported Grove GHC55 boom. The Sennebogen by Manitowoc Crane Care. range is also more The initiative looks like a good diverse with models move for both companies, with including 40, 50, 70, and Sennebogen benefiting from the 120 tonnes”. strong Grove/Manitowoc distribution This year AGD has sold a network in the Americas. While total of eight Sennebogen Manitowoc will have a high quality product to compete with the Tadano telescopic cranes, A Hartinger including two 40 tonne Mantis and Link-Belt telescopic LTR1100 helping 643Rs to the British crawler cranes. with a turbine Antarctic Survey and These are not the first Grove installation one to the CITB training telescopic crawler cranes in centre. Fussey Piling has addition to its early efforts, its Italian taken a 50 tonne 653R, distributor Cerioli mounted 70 and reduced capacity - on slopes of up while BPH has purchased a 653R then 80 tonne Grove superstructures to four degrees. The hydraulically plus two 70 tonne 673Rs. CLR Plant to locally sourced crawler chassis in extendible undercarriage uses eight took a 673R, while AGD has added Italy in the mid to late 1980s. metre long tracks with maximum four 643Rs and two 653Rs to its Link-Belt expands range 900mm wide pads. The overall rental fleet. Two 25 tonne Marchetti The other major North American width ranges from 3.95 to 6.3 Sherpinas have also been sold with manufacturer is Link-Belt which metres. Sennebogen claims that four 70 tonne Sherpa joined the AGD expanded its four model range - the the 6113E uses 30 percent less rental fleet. TCC-450, TCC-500, TCC-750 and space when working than a similar “The demand for telescopic the TCC-1100 with capacities of capacity Rough or All Terrain crawlers continues to increase,” 40, 51, 70 and 100 tonnes - when it crane. The cab can be inclined by at 39.5 tonnes. The main boom is says Law. “The advantages of launched the new 125 tonne TCC- 20 degrees, with the option of a stubby 23.4 metres, while power telescopic crawler cranes continue 1400 last summer. The TCC-1400 is 2.7 metre elevating cab, with 30 comes from a Tier 4 Cummins. to be fast set up times, single truck a long boom crawler crane, with a degrees of tilt. Power is provided by In summary deliveries, no rigging area required, six section 59.5 metre pinned boom, a Cummins diesel in either Stage 3a smaller foot print and they are easy plus three part bi-fold swingaway Before selecting a telescopic or Stage 4F configurations. Central to fold up when close to roads and lattice extension that takes the crawler crane there are several lubrication is standard. In the UK railway lines etc.” maximum tip height to 78.9 metres. critical factors to consider, such the recent appointment of AGD Grove badged Reduced load charts are available as ground conditions, the need for Equipment as its distributor has paid Sennebogens for the crane working at up to four pick & carry duties and the type of off, with sales increasing steadily. The growth in the popularity degrees off level. work it will be used for - lifting and Marchetti placing loads from a decent level of telescopic crawler cranes New features include an electronic base or heavy duty tasks on poor AGD is already the Marchetti dealer, particularly in North America inclinometer providing a digital ground. The good thing is that there however according to managing encouraged Manitowoc to find a readout of the cranes angle, a new is now plenty of choice. director Robert Law: “there is little quick solution for its lack of product, auto idle feature for improved fuel conflict between the two ranges, by announcing a long-term strategic economy, a centralised lubrication system and hydraulic pressure A Tadano Mantis readouts in the cab. The normal GTC-1200. transport weight for the new crane The 70 tonne Marchetti Sherpa is just under 44 tonnes and wide at the Westfield shopping centre in London base jacks help unload the crane and provide a stable base for self- assembly. Tapered axles instead of traditional stub axles make side frame/track installation easier Another addition In October Italian crawler and foundation crane manufacturer MAIT launched the 28 tonne T28 telescopic crawler crane, designed to be transported fully assembled

40 cranes & access December/January 2016 Link-Belt c&a telescopic crawlers TCC-1100 for fabrication Daveco Welding in Alberta, Canada has taken delivery of a 100 tonne Link-Belt TCC-1100 telescopic crawler crane to handle fabricated modular components at its 32 acre facility in Wainwright. The company - started by David Faas and wife Connie in 1981 - fabricates modular components used in oil terminal The 100 tonne Link-Belt TCC-1100 and 90 ton and pipeline facility upgrades. The TCC-1100 is able to travel HTC-8690 truck crane tandem lift a 20 tonne throughout the Wainwright facility handling the larger finished metre skid at Davco’s yard in Wainwright components - weighing up to 68 tonnes - while smaller cranes such as the 50 tonne Link-Belt RTC-8050 Series II The TCC-1100 places a fabricated Rough Terrain, handle the box section and I-beams that make I-beam on to a trailer up the assemblies. The TCC-1100 is able to pick & carry the finished items to the holding area and then load them aboard the transport. For the largest lifts, the TCC-1100 joins with the 90 ton HTC-8690 Link Belt truck crane in a tandem lift. “Since we needed a crane to lift components that never seem to be on a set schedule, we looked at purchasing our own cranes as a way of controlling costs,” said Faas. “We are not paying rent on a machine when we aren’t sure exactly when we will need it. With the advent of the larger components we are now building, we are using the cranes every day and gaining better control of our fabrication flow because they are readily available. The cranes are nice and easy to operate and we have had good luck with the dealer ES&S so we stayed with Link-Belt.”

December/January 2016 cranes & access 41 The crane spent three telescopic crawlers weeks working at c&a an altitude of 2,900 metres installing the steelwork and drive Alpine motor The LTR 1060 had to tackle chairlift gradients of up to 45 degrees The 60 tonne Liebherr LTR 1060 contract travelling up gradients of hurdle was a two kilometre telescopic crawler crane owned by 40 percent. As before the biggest stretch with a gradient of 45 Swiss crane company Clausen has challenges involved getting to site degrees. Once on site, the crane completed its second contract on up rough hiking paths. In mid- helped install the steel structure the Matterhorn, helping construct September Clausen transported for the new station. It also helped a top station for the new Hörnli/ the crane up a tight Alpine road to assemble the drive motor, before Hirli chairlift, which replaces a 50 Stafelalp, at an elevation of 1,900 pick & carrying the 16 tonne unit year old T-Bar lift,in the Zermatt metres and around eight kilometres from the assembly site to the ski area, at an altitude of 2,900 from the station. The LTR 1060 then station, before lifting into place. metres/9,500ft. covered the remaining distance After three weeks on the job, the Last autumn the same crane was used under its own power, taking around crane tackled the downhill journey on a 2,000 metre mountain railway five hours to get there. The biggest to Stafealp.

Slowly but surely the crane wound its way up the narrow, tracks. The The mountain station for the Clausen team new Hörnli/Hirli chairlift is has plenty of being built at the foot of the experience Matterhorn. The LTR 1060 with working overcame steep gradients to in the high When work was completed the LTR 1060 get to the site Alps had to tackle the difficult descent

Building bridges Sennebogen 6113 on German structural and civil engineering company König Bau has purchased a new Sennebogen 643 to carry out warehouse construction a wide variety of lifting tasks, including bridge building One of the first Sennebogen 6113 telescopic crawler cranes - launched at the end projects. With a 30 metre full power boom, the crane is of 2014 - is being used by Max Bögl in Germany on warehouse construction in the able to place most formwork and structural elements Tauernfeld/Deining industrial zone near its base in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, where on the company’s projects. The crane’s first job was the crane is lifting steel components up to 12 tonnes in weight. It is shortly due to go a new bridge to Hohenleipisch. The operator said that to work on a wind turbine contract where it will be required to lift its maximum load the crane’s stability, compact dimensions and freedom of 120 tonnes. from outriggers were major advantages compared to The 6113 has load charts for operating on inclines of up to four degrees, although it needs All Terrain cranes. to be level to lift at full capacity. The tilting cab provides improved visibility, while the ‘SENCON’ control and diagnostic system supports the operator in everyday operations, allowing fine adjustments directly from the control panel. The operator said that the cranes ability to telescope loads with its full power boom and pick & carry duties, convinced him the first time he used the crane, that it was the right machine for him. “It can move heavy parts The new Sennebogen 120 tonne anywhere on site safely. telescopic crane is being used by Max Bögl to lift steel and At the same time, the pre-cast concrete 40 metre boom allows elements me to operate over an extensive area from a central position,” he said. “The crane is also quick and easy to transport thanks to the self- assembly system and the telescoping undercarriage provides impressive König Bau using a new Sennebogen 643 telescopic crane is used for a variety of lifting tasks. stability, even on dynamic work.”

42 cranes & access December/January 2016

c&a a look back at 2015

2015 was really not a bad year overall, yes it got a little tougher for some as we moved through the second half, while the senseless, A look mindless and cowardly violence seen in Paris and elsewhere risked increasing the levels of uncertainty. Oil prices plunged unexpectedly creating challenges in some parts of the industry, while providing relief in others. Long- suffering Southern Europe appears to have back at turned the corner but it looks as though we are heading into yet another uncertain year in 2016. During 2015 1,694 news reports were posted on the English service of www.Vertikal.net with a further 1,026 on the German service - a new record. All the news stories - totalling almost 29,000 - can be searched and accessed at any 2 015 time with the simple click of the mouse. US Marks Crane & Rigging c&a acquires Neff Cranes & Rigging Bobcat of Lubbock, Texas. unveils three Hertz appoints John Tague as 16.9 new 10 and chief executive, replacing Mark December January 12 metre Frissora. industry telehandlers. IPAF opens an office inChina and news appoints its first training centre in Kevin Parkes, chief executive Wolf Haessler - the founder UK crane rental company Lifterz the country. of UK rental company Hewden, and previous owner of Skyjack - Cranes is closed and liquidated. announces his departure from the launches WolfLift. World News..World News.. company. Manitou launches a new version 12 people are Terex Cranes of its mast boom for the Australian killed when expands its market. gunmen storm Charlie Hebdo Explorer range TVH acquires the assets of C-Tech offices in Paris. of ATs with Industries. the 130 tonne Saudi Arabia’s acquires 98 percent of its Explorer 5500. Terex King Abdullah dies - half-brother, Topower crawler crane joint Crown Prince Salman, assumes UK rental group AFI acquires venture in China. Dinolift appoints Reachmaster the throne. Altitude Access. as its distributor for North America. Russia, Belarus, HTC’s tower crane operators IPAF issues Armenia, Manitex and Terex complete the accept a 14 percent pay increase. the millionth Kazakhstan and ASV joint venture. PAL card. Kyrgyzstan form Böcker confirms the Eurasian Alexander Böcker Economic Union. as managing Boko Haram massacres more German crane company Wiemann director taking over than 2,000 in Baga, Nigeria and establishes a new access rental from father Robert surrounding villages. Böcker who died a few months company. Lithuania adopts the earlier. Satoru euro becoming the 19th Oyashiki, vice The first Liebherr LR 11000 fitted Eurozone country. president of with a Power Boom attachment The Swiss National Bank Tadano Faun, goes to work. abandons the cap on the franc’s Jekko ships its first 7.5 tonne moves back to value to the euro, causing turmoil SPX 1275CDH mini crane to the Tadano Japan in financial markets. Netherlands. after six years The first production Houthi rebels in the job. unit of Maeda’s new Sinoboom Europe is launched in take over the articulated spider crane Bergeijk, the Netherlands. Yemeni capital German access rental company arrives in Europe. Comansa Jie launches a new flat Gerken acquires the platform ousting the top crane. division of the Willenbrock group. government.

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UK rental company GH Johnson Crane Hire c&a buys two 80 tonne Kobelco CKE800G crawler c&a cranes. Palfinger 17.1 launches 17.2 February March the P-Fold industry industry assistance news system on news its PALcom The HSE finally launches prosecutions for the Genie launches a new P7 remote 2006 tower crane collapse in Battersea. 17 metre GTH-1256 controller. JLG launches three boom lifts, telehandler for North AFI hires former employees Brian Parker, America. a large scissor and a redesigned Darren Kesterton and Paul Maxwell as part line of telehandlers at the ARA. of a new business development team. Alimak Hek launches the new SC 65/32 hoist. Alan Peck is promoted to sales director for Ainscough Crane Hire Maeda and Böcker dealer Kranlyft UK. purchases eight new Böcker UK rental group AFI AK44/4000 truck mounted acquires the assets of Safe Access Loxam UK orders three 48 metre Palfinger cranes. Solutions (SAS). P480NX truck mounted lifts Genie unveils its new Grove unveils three David and John Barton establish access 150ft telescopic boom telescopic crawler rental company Quick Reach. lift - the SX-150. cranes in partnership UK rental company JMS Access takes delivery with Sennebogen. Ruthmann launches of its 1,000th aerial work platform. a new version of its Daniel Pitzer replaces Georg Diesch as 27m 3.5t truck mount - the TB270+. Liebherr unveils an innovative president of Liebherr Cranes in the USA. Skyjack launches its self-contained tower crane Genie starts manufacturing telehandlers at new 82/86ft SJ86TJ elevator dubbed the LiUP. the Terex facility in and SJ82T telescopic boom lifts. Terex acquires Dueco - Terex Oklahoma City. Utilities’ largest distributor and Hewden appoints Hiab announces the 80 tonne/metre X-HiPro mounting company. Adrian Murphy as 858. Hiab launches its chief executive CMC delivers the first units of its 18.8 metre the 90 tonne/ following the departure S19N spider lift. of Kevin Parkes. metre X-HiPro Snorkel unveils six new 1058. Gardemann, the German subsidiary of models including its first Lavendon orders 50 Ruthmann truck mounted UK-based tower telehandler. lifts in a deal worth €6.4 million. crane company Dutch cladding specialist HTC Plant sells World News..World News.. World News V.d. Tillaar takes its hoist division delivery of the first remote controlled Magni to Reco Hoists. Leaders from Russia, Ukraine, Germany telehandler. and France agree a ceasefire and withdrawal of Jekko develops a 2.5 tonne SPX 424 spider heavy weapons from Eastern Ukraine. Time Manufacturing celebrates its 50th crane for the German market. anniversary with new Versalift aerial work Daesh burn to death captured platforms. Palfinger exceeds €1 billion of revenue Jordanian pilot Muath for the first time. Kasasbeh, the Jordanian MEC unveils its new 60ft Kobelco government executes two 60J telescopic boom lift. Cranes terrorists and vows revenge. Imer Access/Iteco opens its The Egyptian military appoints Cumberland Global conducts airstrikes against Platforms as its UK Parts rebels in Libya after more than a dozen distributor. Centre in Egyptian Christians are beheaded. UK’s King Lifting receives a new Spierings Singapore. Russian opposition SK599-AT5 mobile tower crane. politician Boris Iowa Mold Tooling (IMT) adds the 22.3 Palfinger and Russian truck manufacturer Nemtsov, is shot tonne/metre 28562 loader crane to its range. Kamaz begin two joint ventures. dead in Moscow. Manitex completes PM The Africa Cup of Skyjack celebrates its group acquisition and Nations semi-final 30th anniversary with plans to build PM cranes in between Ghana and 30 projects for 30 America. hosts Equatorial Partners. Canadian-based NCSG Guinea becomes a Bangkok Airport takes delivery of four 32 Crane & Heavy Haul “war zone” with riot metre Falcon FS320Z spider lifts. acquires Energy Transportation police using tear gas UK-based Green Access Platforms of Wyoming. and helicopters to restore calm. Ghana won 3-1. recruits John Corrie.

46 cranes & access December/January 2016 Hong Kong certifies A-Plant - the UK arm of Ashtead - acquires TRAC temporary roadways. its first female crane c&a operator, Janet UK-based Baldwins Crane Hire takes delivery Wong, 25. of a Liebherr LG 1750 lattice boom truck crane. AFI acquires Astra 17.3 Haulotte unveils new models - Training from April/May the Star 10, Optimum scissors, administration. industry Star 6 and Dutch rental company HWS takes the first 60ft news HA20RTJ Pro MEC 6092RT Rough Terrain scissor lift. boom lift. Grove launches MOBA opens a subsidiary in Brazil and builds a the GMK5250L, a new production hall in Germany. single engine Snorkel promotes five axle 250t All Manitou unveils the new 33ft Matthew Elvin to chief Terrain crane. Mango RT boom lift. executive. US-based Fleurieu Cranes takes Oaktree Capital delivery of the firstGrove Management GMK6400 in Australia. purchases UK-based Ainscough Crane Hire. Palfinger launches The UK HSE appoints Peter Baker as chief Andy Studdert of NES takes over as IPAF the new 55m inspector of construction. president from Steve Couling. Jumbo NX model US-based ALL Erection & Crane Rental Integrated Logistics of Kuwait adds 10 new - the P550 - and a orders 17 Tadano cranes. 100 tonne Grove All Terrain cranes. 28m P280AXE. Socage opens a subsidiary - Socage Do Terex Port Solutions launches the Liftace World News..World News.. World News Brasil - in São Paulo. 5-31 reach stacker. 148 students are shot dead at the Liebherr upgrades Dutch rental group Collé Rental Garissa University College in Kenya, its 750 tonne LR1750 & Sales takes delivery of 10 new by Al-Shabaab. crawler crane 180/185ft boom lifts from Genie An earthquake kills and JLG. 8,857 in Nepal, 130 in Tadano invests $2.5 million in its Mantis India, 27 in China and crawler crane plant in Richlands, Virginia. four in Bangladesh. World News..World News.. World News Manitou celebrates its 500,000th machine The World Health The ancient city sites of Nimrud, with 80 limited edition MLT 735 telehandlers. Organization declares that rubella has been Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq are Dingli successfully launches its Initial Public eradicated from the Americas. demolished by Daesh. Offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange 750 refugees die NASA’s DAWN probe Main Board. after a boat capsizes enters orbit around during a crossing UK rental company Ceres, becoming the from Libya. Morris Leslie Plant first spacecraft to Hire orders 140 Manitou Tennis player Andy Murray visit a dwarf planet. MT telehandlers. marries Kim Sears, in A pilot of a Dunblaine, Scotland. GermanWings Glasgow-based Leggat Plant takes the first Version O of Les Femmes Airbus A320-211 Terex Explorer 5500 in the UK. d’Alger by Pablo Picasso crashes the aircraft UK rental company B&T takes delivery 100 sells for $179.3 million at an auction in New into the side of a JCB telehandlers. York, while the sculpture L’Homme au mountain in France Ruthmann reports a record year with doigt by Alberto killing all 150 on board. Giacometti fetches revenues of €109 million. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu $141.3 million, setting makes controversial Sunbelt Rentals acquires Wilson Rental a new world record addresses to US Center of Corning, New York. for a painting and a Congress in a bid to US-based Essex Rental starts looking at sculpture. stop a nuclear deal ‘strategic alternatives’. Ireland votes to legalise same-sex marriage with Iran. Riwal and Austrian Taylor Swift wins Top Gear presenter crane rental company eight awards out of Jeremy Clarkson Prangl sign a five year 14 nominations at the is fired after an framework agreement. Billboard music awards. “unprovoked The Duchess of physical attack” on Riwal announces an €80 million investment in Cambridge gives birth a producer. its rental fleet for 2015. to a baby girl Charlotte UK’s GAP Hire Solutions launches its A Saudi Arabian-led coalition starts moves into Elizabeth Diana. Yemen in support of the government’s fight London Tools & Access division. In the UK David against rebels. UK-based Weldex takes delivery of Cameron and the Millions of Europeans four new Kobelco CKE G crawler Conservatives win a glimpse the best cranes. surprise majority in the solar eclipse in Erik Bengtsson, MD of Cramo Sweden General Election. years. and Cramo Scandinavia leaves the company.

December/January 2016 cranes & access 47 Alistair Jordan leaves Stephan Kulawik, previously a look back at 2015 c&a family-owned company with Palfinger Platforms, joins Rapid Platforms. Danish crane and access specialist BMS and announces a c&a Hiab announces two new ‘Z’ new international truck mounted lift strategy. loader cranes for applications John Jennings, chairman of UK based that involve the regular use of Clements Equipment Hire, retires after more 17.4 grabs and other tools. than 50 years in the business. AH in Denmark and MBS Access in the UK June World News..World News.. World News industry take delivery of the first twoHinowa Lightlift news 26.14 Performance IIIS spider lifts. FIFA president Sepp Blatter announces his intention to resign Bobcat unveils two new six and calls for an extraordinary metre compact telehandlers - JLG acquires low level lift congress to elect a new president. the TL358 and TL358+. manufacturer Power Towers. 40 holiday makers Irish-based Windhoist purchases two 750 Sennebogen launches the 50 tonne 653E are shot dead at the tonne Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 All Terrain cranes. telescopic crawler crane. resort of Port El Tadano ships its 1,000th 80 tonne/100 ton Kantaoui, Tunisia Vertikal Days breaks GR-1000XL/GR-800EX Rough Terrain crane. following a similar attack on the National all records for number of Bardo Museum in Tunis in March. exhibitors & visitors. Liebherr unveils an upgraded version of its City-type LTC All Terrain crane - the 50 President Erdogan’s Justice and AFI acquires Hampshire Plant & Access to tonne LTC 1050-3.1. Development Party (AKP) loses its majority in run as an independent business. Turkish Elections Alimak Hek announces plans for an Initial Wolffkran acquires UK tower Public Offering in Sweden. Cuba becomes the first country to eradicate crane company HTC Plant mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. which it rebrands as HTC GSR delivers its 7,000th unit - a 23 metre Wolffkran. E240PX truck mounted platform. An Indonesian Air Force Hercules crashes in a Palfinger announces a new Solid line of loader Unic Cranes Europe develops a hydraulic residential area in Medan cranes - the PK 17.001SLD 1, PK 17.001 SLD 3 luffing jib attachment for two of its spider cranes. killing 143. and PK19:001 SLD 5 - replacing the PK16001/ Isoli launches the 20.5 metre A strike closes the PK18001. PNT 210 JD4 truck mounted lift Channel Tunnel US-based Bigge Crane & replacing the PNT 210J. between the UK and Rigging takes delivery of the Tower crane manufacturer Wolffkran appoints France. firstManitowoc MLC650 crawler crane. Empire Crane as a dealer in the United States. JLG launches an on-line used equipment service Palfinger forms a joint - JLGUsed.com c&a venture with Fairwind of Lawton, Oklahoma for AFI Rent takes delivery of the firstSkyjack servicing wind turbines. SJ86T telescopic boom lift in Germany. Phil Newby - executive director 17.5 Weldex orders a further of Australia’s EWPA and Hire July eight Liebherr LTR crawler telescopic cranes. industry and Rental Industry Association - news Palfinger announces its 125 tonne/metre PK retires. 165.002 TEC 7 for vehicles up to 32 tonnes GVW. Germany’s Roggermaier takes Holland Lift releases its highest narrow Wacker Neuson and Claas end their strategic delivery of the first newSnorkel slab electric scissor lift - the 102ft/1.4m wide HL-330 alliance for agricultural telescopic handlers, with scissor lifts in Europe. E14 4WDS/N. Liebherr taking over as Claas’ new supplier. A new Polish Rental Association is Potain launches a new range of MDT Potain teams up with Alimak-Hek formed. Dutch rental company T.C. CSS city tower cranes. to develop a new internal tower Gortenmulder takes delivery of the first Liebherr launches the new five elevator for its tower cranes. Magni RTH 5.35 telehandler. axle LTM 1250-5.2 All Terrain An Artic Crane Raptor articulated World News..World News.. World News crane. tower crane is erected with a hook Riwal acquires working at height trainer height of 88m - a new record. Greece becomes the first advanced economy to miss a payment to the IMF. ALS Safety in the UK. Alimak flotation is substantially oversubscribed, Belgian heavy-lift company Sarens the shares price at the top end the range. NASA’s New Horizons space probe forms a joint venture with Sinotrans unveils three new large capacity MHT Manitou carries out a close Heavy-lift Logistics in China. telehandlers with capacities up to 23 tonnes. flyby ofPluto. Ainscough Crane Hire places a further order Dinolift unveils the new 66ft Iran agrees to long- for Liebherr cranes taking its total to 54 in 12 months. 220XSE fully self-propelled boom term limits on its nuclear Australian access rental company Force Corp lift with telehandler capability. programme in exchange for is placed in the hands of a NRC Plant sells the first 80 tonne Hitachi sanctions relief. receiver. SCX800A-3 crawler crane in the UK to Donegan Cuba and the USA Civil Engineering. re-establish full diplomatic Ashtead - owner of Sunbelt Rentals in relations, ending 54 years the USA and A-Plant in the UK - exceeds Liebherr books its 1,000th offshore crane order of hostilities. £2 billion in revenues, a new record. - a RL-K 4200 ram luffing knuckle-boom crane.

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JLG launches Rothlehner appoints Alfa Access Services a look back at 2015 c&a a new 40ft to provide support, service and spare parts for crawler Denka Lift in the UK. mounted telescopic Kobe Steel considers merging boom lift - the 400SC. c&a Kobelco Construction Japan’s second crane Machinery and Kobelco manufacturer Kato returns to Europe with its Cranes. City-type All Terrain cranes. 17.6 Link-Belt unveils the 125 tonne August/September In Australia, Coates Hire acquires the assets of TCC-1400 telescopic crawler crane. industry Force Corp and merges them into its operation. news Link-Belt launches a new 100 ton/90 tonne rough terrain crane. Terex announces a merger with Finnish port and World News..World News.. World News industrial lifting company Konecranes. TVH Australasia purchases Independent Wreckage from Malaysian Airlines Parts and Service, Australia. Terex Cranes Flight 370, missing since March 2014, is found president Tim Ford Bronto Skylift chief executive Esa Peltola on Réunion. leaves the company and retires after 35 years with the company. Scientists announce the discovery of Ken Lousberg takes Danish rental company Steiness takes delivery Homo naledi, a previously unknown over. of the first two 150ftGenie SX-150 boom lifts species of early human in South Africa. UK distributor APS teams up with Aldercote to in Europe. 20 people are killed in a bombing inside the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand. mount and distribute a new range of van mounted Hiab wins an order platforms. for 1,200 loader TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman A-Plant purchases more than 200 Genie booms cranes from Tata Adam Ward, are shot dead in Virginia, during a and scissor lifts. Motors India, for an live broadcast by a former colleague who later army truck contract. shot himself. The UKs largest specialist telehandler rental Volkswagen is found to have rigged company - Fork Rent - is acquired by private KAM Trading (UK) diesel emissions tests, possibly equity firms in a deal led bySteve Corcoran. which also trades as Dingli Platform Sales UK, parts company with Philip O’Donnell. affecting up to 11 million vehicles. Belgian tower crane specialist NASA announces that liquid water has been Arcomet unveils a new self- A New York Jury orders Jimmy Lomma to pay found on Mars. erecting tower crane. $47.8 million to two men who died in a 2008 crane collapse. Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour CTE ships its 10,000th aerial work leadership race in the UK with a Manitowoc filesSEC papers to separate its platform. landslide. cranes and foodservice businesses.

Terex unveils a Boom Booster kit for its 650 Versalift launches a 66 metre tonne Superlift 3800 crawler crane. c&a insulated truck mounted lift. UK rental company City Lifting takes delivery BMS orders 13 large Palfinger of the first Maeda MK1033CWE-1 spider truck mounted lifts. crane in the UK. 17.7 Dutch manufacturer Omega October Alimak Hek launches a medium range launches two crawler mounted industry construction hoist and a new range of news telescopic boom lifts. mast-climbers. UK-based Gatwick Plant is World News..World News.. World News A 1,350 tonne crawler crane overturns onto acquired by R Swain & Sons. A suicide bomb kills at least 100 the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia ATN outlines a 12 metre mast boom with people at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey. killing more than 110 people - a report blames a telescopic jib to be launched at Bauma 2016. combination of negligence and strong winds. Hurricane Patricia Cela exhibits its new 30m DT30 Spyder becomes the most intense UK-based Kimberly Rentals articulated boom spider lift at GIS. hurricane ever recorded in the launches a secondary guarding Western Hemisphere with winds of 200 mph. system for scissor lifts. Manitou unveils the MLT-X 732 ag telehandler in Australia. Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party are Jekko reveals details of an all- surprise winners in Canada’s new six tonne SPK60 mini crawler Phil Graysmark vice president elections ousting Stephen crane with articulated telescopic luffing jib. of sales,European region for Harper and the Conservatives. Genie leaves the company. Don Ahern of Ahern Rentals, Snorkel A Russian airliner en route to Saint Petersburg and Xtreme appoints Craig Paylor as Mammoet forms a joint venture in from Sharm el-Sheikh, group chief operating officer. Singapore with Sankyu of Japan. crashes in Sinai, killing all 217 UK’s Nationwide Platforms introduces a Joseph F. Apuzzo, Terex CFO from 1999 passengers and seven crew new dual level secondary guarding system. to 2002, is fined $100,000 for fraudulent members. deals with United Rentals. Spierings unveils a completely Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton wins his third redesigned SK597-AT4 which Oshkosh chief executive Charles Formula 1 championship to will replace the SK 498-AT4. Szews announces his retirement and become only the second British is replaced by Wilson Jones. driver to achieve the feat. Singapore requires health Bushfires threaten homes in the Australian checks for crane operators over German crane rental company Steil state of Victoria. 50 and simplifies the certification requirements takes delivery of its fifthTerex Superlift 3800 for mini crane operators. crawler crane. China drops its One Child policy.

50 cranes & access December/January 2016 December/January 2016 cranes & access 51 UK rental company a look back at 2015 c&a John Sutch Cranes takes delivery of a new 20 tonne Kato CR-200Ri city crane. The all-new National Crane NBT30H-2 boom c&a truck is launched. Haulotte delivers four new 59ft HA20RTJ-Pro boom lifts to Access Platforms Aberdeen - the Hiab launches three new high capacity cranes first in the UK. 17.8 in its ‘Big Five’ range of heavy duty cranes. Snorkel makes secondary guarding systems November Collé Rental & Sales takes standard on all larger boom lifts. industry news delivery of 100 Aichi 40 and Manitou launches two new large 46ft crawler boom lifts. capacity telehandlers in Australia Dingli announces an upgraded 13ft Mammoet adds five new and New Zealand. self-propelled micro scissor lift. cranes from 30 to 200 tonnes JCB celebrates 70 years since to its UK rental fleet. TVH acquires France Hayon it was founded by Joseph Cyril Group. The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association Bamford. holds its annual conference in Liverpool, UK. Saudi Arabia issues new rules for World News..World News.. World News German crane rental tower cranes and crawler/mobile cranes in the Chinese and Taiwanese presidents, company Wiesbauer wake of the Mecca disaster. Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou formally meet takes delivery of its fifth for the first time. Wolf Haessler’s return to the powered access 700 tonne Terex AC700. industry ends less than 12 months after launch of A Friday night attack by fanatics the WolfLifT. Australian rental company Coates Hire places in Paris results in 132 fatalities. a 2 million order for 90 Hiab compact loader CTE upgrades its B-Lift HR truck € Turkey shoots down a Russian fighter jet, the cranes. mounted lift range with Germany’s first downing of a Russian aircraft by a NATO Hematec taking the first. Jan Denks, former sales director of Bronto member since the 1950s. Skylift leaves the company. Skyjack releases details of a new World leaders attend the opening of range or telehandlers that it will Dutch crane and rigging the United Nations Climate Change launch at the ARA. company Wagenborg Conference in Paris. introduces a compact Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition Italian spider lift manufacturer Bluelift launches articulated electric party win a landslide in the a new 26 metre spider lift, the SA26. crawler crane. Myanmar/Burma elections.

US rental software supplier US-based Imperial Crane Services acquires c&a Wynne Systems Speedway Crane of Joliet, Illinois. acquires rentalresult UK crane rental company Ainscough acquires owner Result Group. Specialist Crane Hire. Kobelco Construction 17.9 Teupen unveils December Machinery and Kobelco Cranes announce details of a new 19 that the two businesses will merge in April 2016. industry metre Leo19T. news Jekko introduces IPAF certifies its a new electric pick first training centre Manitex sells its Load King trailer division to & carry crane - the in New Zealand. Utility One Source for $6.5 million in cash. five tonne Minipicker World News..World News.. World News Manitowoc Cranes appoints MPK50. Unprecedented floods hit Barry L. Pennypacker as chief Five senior technical parts of the USA, the UK executive. and engineering and Tamil Nadu, India. UK-based Baldwins Crane officials are charged Hire was found guilty of in relation to the fatal World leaders converge Corporate Manslaughter Mecca crane overturn. on Paris for the COP21 meeting and reach and was fined £700,000 plus agreement on a long-term deal to reduce global Versalift UK unveils an insulated version of its carbon emissions. £200,000 in costs for the death of operator pick-up mounted LAT135-H platform. Lindsay Easton. Two people open fire inSan Federal Signal sells Bronto Skylift to Morita Bernardino, California killing 14 Italian truck mounted aerial lift manufacturer of Japan. people and injuring 14 others. Isoli launches a partnership Comansa launches Britain’s Tyson Fury defies the odds to defeat with LuiGong the 21LC450 flat top Wladimir Klitschko and make him heavyweight for the Chinese tower crane along champion of the world. and regional with changes to the The UK is gripped with space market. LC2100 series. fever as Tim Peake became the first British man to board the US crane rental company Essex announces it will International Space Station. Versalift distributor Time France opens a new delist its shares. SpaceX lands a Falcon 9 rocket, plant in preparation for the launch its own range the first reusable rocket to successfully enter of van mounted lifts. Ashtead’s A-Plant acquires rack and pinion hoist company G.B. Access. orbital space and return to earth.

52 cranes & access December/January 2016 The Results: Sports and the Oscars c&a a look back at 2015 The major sports Belmont Golf Best Director - Alejandro G. Stakes - winners 2015 British Open - Iñárritu for Birdman American Tennis Zach Johnson Best Supporting Actor - J.K. Pharoah Simmons in Whiplash Australian Open - Men: ridden by Victor Espinoza U.S. Open - Jordan Novak Djokovic Women: Spieth Best Supporting Actress - Epsom Derby - Golden Horn Serena Williams Patricia Arquette in Boyhood ridden by Frankie Dettori Masters - Jordan Spieth French Open - Best Animated Feature - Big Grand National - Many Clouds PGA Championship - Jason Day Men: Stan Wawrinka Hero 6 by Disney ridden by Leighton Aspell Cycling Women: Serena Williams Best Animated Short Film - Cheltenham Gold Cup - Tour de France Davis Cup - Great Britain Feast - Patrick Osborne and Coneygree - Chris Froome - Kristina Reed Wimbledon - ridden by Nico Team Sky Men: Novak Djokovic Best Documentary Feature - de Boinville English Football Women: Serena CitizenFour Prix de l’Arc F.A Cup - Arsenal beat Aston Villa Williams Best Foreign Language Film - Ida de Triomphe - Golden Horn ridden 4–0 US Open - Men: Novak Djokovic by Frankie Dettori (Poland) Premier League - Women: Flavia Pennetta Best Visual Effects - Interstellar Paul Motor Racing Chelsea American Football/Rugby Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Formula 1 - Driver: The Oscar winners Scott Fisher Super Bowl XLIX - New Lewis Hamilton 2014-2015 England Patriots beat Constructor: Best Live Action Short Film - The Best Picture - Birdman or (The Seattle Seahawks 28-24 Mercedes Phone Call - Mat Kirkby and James Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Lucas Rugby World Cup - Indianapolis 500 - Juan Pablo Best Actor - Eddie New Zealand Montoya -Team Penske Best Sound Editing - American Sniper Redmayne in The Horse Racing Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman Cricket Theory of Best Cinematography - Birdman - Kentucky Derby - American Cricket World Cup - Australia Everything Pharoah ridden by Victor Espinoza Emmanuel Lubezki Ashes - Best Best Costume Design - Preakness Stakes - England Actress - Julianne The Grand Budapest Hotel American Pharoah ridden by Moore in Still Alice Victor Espinoza - Milena Canonero

December/January 2016 cranes & access 53 a look back at 2015 c&a Those no longer with us From the industry Derek Hathaway 1944 - 2015 Peter Baldwin, 82, British B.B. King, 89, American blues Lee Kramer 1947 - 2015 Past chief executive officer of actor guitarist, singer and songwriter President of Xtreme Harsco Michael Meacher, 75, Sir Chris Woodhead, 68, British manufacturing - former Tony Narushka 1956 - 2015 British politician educationalist engineering manager at UpRight US born founder and owner Maureen O’Hara, 95, Irish- Patrick Macnee, 93, English Sydney Appleyard 1949 - 2015 of Polish access company American actress actor - The Avengers Instant Polska UK tower crane veteran Al Molinaro, 96, American James Last, 86, German and past chairman of CPA Stephen Rodgers 1951 - 2015 actor composer and big band leader tower crane interest group Access industry veteran - founder of UK Platforms Sir Adrian Cadbury, 86, Erik Carlsson, 86, Swedish rally Dennis Doornbos 1950 - 2015 British businessman driver Owner of Dutch crane Patrick Bastings 1968 - 2015 and access company JLG European region product Judy Carne, 76, British Actress Cynthia Lennon, 75, British author Doornbos Equipment manager for telehandlers Brian Close, 84, English - first wife of John Lennon Bob Dickey Dickie Moore 1931 - 2015 cricketer -Yorkshire, Richard Dysart, 86, American UK crane hire veteran and former Canadian ice hockey player Somerset, England character actor owner of Crane Services, Leeds and founder of Quebec based Peggy Jones, 75, American Ray Charles, 96, American Ivor Kiddle 1925 - 2015 Dickie Moore Rentals guitarist - Lady Bo (Diddley) musician Founder and owner of UK John Colclough former sales Jackie Collins, 77, British- Percy Sledge, 74, American R&B based Quinto Crane manager at Aerial Access and American novelist, singer Deutz UK Fulvio Gomes 1974 - 2015 Brian Sewell, 84, British Alfred Taubman, 91, American A 15 year crane and access Terry Duxbury 1953 - 2015 art critic real estate developer veteran in South America Crane operator and owner of Lifting World crane operators Forum Yogi Berra, 90, baseball Malcolm Fraser, 84, Australian George Kalinika player - New York Yankees, politician, Prime Minister 1938 - 2014 The full tributes to those who New York Mets, member District manager for passed away in 2015 can be found Lee Kuan Yew, 91, Singaporean of 13 World Series politician, Prime Minister UpRight on www.vertikal.net championship teams Rex David Pollock 1945 - 2015 Wider world Michele Ferrero, 89, Italian Cilla Black, 72, British businessman - Ferrero New Zealand crane hire veteran, Wayne Rogers, 82, American singer founder of Todd & Pollock, Alan Howard, 77, English actor actor - ‘Trapper’ John Frank Gifford, 84, American which became Pollock & McIntyre in M.A.S.H Terry Gill, 75, Australian actor Sons Crane Hire football player and broadcaster Natalie Cole, 65, American singer George Cole, 90, English Mario Cuomo, 82, American Stuart Smith 1948 - 2015 politician, Governor of New York Founder and past owner of Lemmy, 70, English rock musician actor Peterborough Crane Hire Motörhead, Hawkwind Wes Craven, 76, American Leonard Nimoy, 83, American actor and director (Star Trek) Gerrit Slijkhuis 1932 - 2015 Derek Ezra, 96, chairman of the film director -A Nightmare Founder and managing director of UK National Coal Board on Elm Street. Donna Douglas, 82, American Malmquist Benelux and a director Jimmy Hill, 87, English Jimmy Evert, 91, American tennis actress - The Beverly Hillbillies, Elly of Malmquist AB football player and TV player and coach, May Clampett Ray Kane 1928-2015 presenter Oliver Sacks, 82, British Omar Karami, 80, Lebanese Former vice president of Harry Hyams, 87, British property neurologist and author - The Man politician, Prime Minister manufacturing at Grove developer (Centre Point) Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Anita Ekberg, 83, Swedish-Italian Peter Allison 1924 - 2015 Anthony Valentine, 76, Stephen Lewis, 88, British actress Former Coles Cranes and British actor comedy actor Rod Taylor, 84, Australian actor Grove director Chuck Williams, 100, founder of Edward Montagu of - The Birds Peter Elmer 1956 - 2015 Williams-Sonoma Beaulieu, 88, founder of the Peter Wallenberg Sr., 88, Pioneer of the Swiss aerial lift National Motor Museum. Swedish financier and industrialist, industry Greville Janner, 87, British MP Val Doonican, 88, Irish King Abdullah bin Abdul Peter Ellison 1957 - 2015 singer and television Aziz of Saudi Arabia, 90 Applications engineer for Pat Eddery, 63, Irish jockey, presenter Ron Moody, 91, actor - Fagin Hiab/Cargotec UK, Helmut Schmidt, 96, Sir Nicholas Winton, 106, British Jeffrey Michael Johnson chancellor of West Germany humanitarian, rescued 669 children Colleen McCullough, 77, 1965 - 2015 (1974 - 1982) as part of Kindertransport Australian author - The Thorn Birds Owner of San Diego-based Allen Toussaint, 77, American Cecil, 13, protected Richard von Weizsäcker, 94, All Access Equipment musician, songwriter ‘Working in Zimbabwean lion former president of West Germany Rentals the Coal Mine’, ‘Southern Nights’ Omar Sharif, 83, Egyptian Ruth Rendell, 85, Author - Andrew Bailey 1968 - 2015 Saeed Jaffrey, 86, Indian- actor Inspector Wexford Banner Plant powered British actor access manager Jules Bianchi, 25, French Formula Robert Loggia, 85, American Jim Slater, 86, British One driver, head injuries sustained actor and director Simon Wilkinson financier in a race collision 1957 - 2015 Shigero Mizuki, 93, father of Jonah Lomu, 40, All Blacks Lynn Anderson, 67, American Manga animation UK crane and access rugby player equipment finance country singer - ‘Rose Garden’ Terry Pratchett, 66, fantasy specialist Bob Foster, 77, American boxer, Charles Kennedy, 55, author world light heavyweight champion Ken Barnes 1934 - 2015 British politician, Leader of James Horner, 61, Oscar Former managing director of Hugh Scully, 72, British the Liberal Democrats winning composer Grayston Crane Hire television presenter Tariq Aziz, 79, Iraqi Kim Young Sam, 87, former Leroy ‘Buddy’ Dieter Gordon Honeycombe, 79, politician, foreign minister president of South Korea 1958 - 2015 British newscaster Alan Bond, 77, Australian Rod McKuen, 81, American poet Vice president sales for Henning Mankell, 67, Swedish businessman and and songwriter Haulotte North America author (Kurt Wallander) convicted fraudster Demis Roussos, 68, Greek Singer Patrick Van Seumeren 1968 - 2015 Geoffrey Howe, 88, UK Sir Christopher Lee, 93, Former chief operating officer of Louis Jourdan, 93, French film chancellor and Foreign British actor actor - Gigi Mammoet Secretary

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Increased demand for Thorough Examination training Training Scheme Demand for the ALLMI Thorough Examination course has continued to grow, with year to date training levels having increased 50 percent compared to the same period in 2014. Review - update The ALLMI Thorough Examination Tom Wakefield of ALLMI said: “We course covers the following ALLMI has completed the primary consultation phase of its Training have worked hard to highlight the modules: Scheme Review (TSR), some 12 months after it was launched at the importance and the legal requirement inaugural meeting of the TSR supervisory board. In the meantime the for Thorough Examinations and Load Module 1: Course Introduction association has been working on new material for its operator training Tests to be carried out by engineers Module 2: Legislation who are ‘competent’ to perform programme, draft copies of which were sent to all members and Module 3: Safety Considerations training providers as part of the consultation process. these procedures. We have always said that one of the most effective Module 4: Documentation follow, this primary phase was ALLMI technical director, Alan ways for end users to be sure that Module 5: Visual Inspection the main opportunity for those Johnson said: “Although we are this happens is to use an ALLMI involved to have their say and we Module 6: Function Check still very much at the drafting Accredited Examiner working for a have been delighted with the level Module 7: Calibration Check stage, we are extremely happy member company. A list of these of engagement.” with the quality of the new material engineers can be found in each Module 8: Overload Test produced to date, the content Whilst the primary consultation member’s profile on the ALLMI Module 9: Stability Test of which reflects the extensive phase is now closed, the website. For many years now we Module 10: Dynamic Test planning undertaken, as well as association welcomes feedback on have been finding that end users are Module 11: Post Test Inspection consultations with manufacturers any of its training courses. Should increasingly insisting upon ALLMI and feedback from our 2015 you have any relevant views or qualified engineers carrying out this Module 12: Signing Off Instructor CPD Events. Whilst suggestions then please contact kind of work, and this has led to Module 13: Practical Session further ad-hoc consultations will ALLMI. significant increases in demand for Module 14: Assessments the training. We are very pleased Module 15: Course Review & to see that the industry clearly Feedback recognises the value of ALLMI Membership growth accreditation and the benefits that For further information on the the Thorough Examination training Association’s Thorough Examination continues brings to service companies and fleet course, please contact ALLMI. owners alike.” ALLMI membership has continued to grow in 2015, with new registrations during the third quarter almost double that of the same period last year. If the significant number of applications being processed in the final quarter are approved, the association will post Peter Ellison R.I.P yet another record year of membership growth. The association received the very sad news in late November that Cleveland Cable a major distributor of electrical cables, was one of the Peter Ellison, one of the longest serving members of the ALLMI most recent companies to go through the stringent approval process, to Technical Standards Committee, had passed away. An applications become an Operators’ Forum member. Transport manager, John Holland, engineer who worked for Hiab/Cargotec UK for more than 40 years, he said: “We have been using ALLMI training for many years and so it played a significant role in the development of many ALLMI guidance seemed a natural progression for us to become a member. We have already documents, as well as the association’s Thorough Examination training experienced many of the benefits that membership brings, and have course. received an excellent level of Ismo Leppanen, managing director of Cargotec UK and an ALLMI board support and guidance since member said: “Pete was an extremely knowledgeable and skilled member joining, helping us ensure that of the Cargotec team, as well as the ALLMI our company continues to work Technical Committee. His views and opinions to the highest standards. Also, on industry issues were highly sought after while we have always had a and well respected by all, and he was always strong reputation in this area, very keen to devote his time and energy for we have seen our credibility the sake of raising standards. Tragically, Pete further enhanced by being was only 58, and his friends and colleagues part of the association and within the industry are shocked at this sudden bearing its logo.” loss. We pass on our condolences to them and his family.”

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Telehandler platform fall costs £15,000 Henzell Enterprises of Morpeth, UK, has been fined £5,000 plus £10,147 Lack of training proved fatal costs following an incident with a fork mounted work platform, while University College Cork pleaded guilty in November to two counts erecting an agricultural building at a farm in Goxill, north Lincolnshire in of breaching safety regulations. It was found not to have trained the October 2013. operator of a boom lift or banksman Frank McGrath, 58, on how to The steel frame of the building had which required the basket to be safely move the machine between work locations and for failing to been erected and two men began removed and replaced frequently have written up a proper risk assessment. The failures contributed to installing the roof beams from a was a contributing factor. HSE McGrath’s death following an accident in March 2013. platform fitted to the forks of a inspector David Stewart said: The court was told that the machine’s operating manual indicated that blind telehandler. The platform broke free “It was the responsibility of the spots for the operator were greatly reduced by driving the machine from and dropped three metres or so to company to ensure that work at a particular height, and yet it was being driven in the completely stowed the ground seriously injuring the height was planned and carried out position. CCTV footage a minute or two before the fatal incident, indicated two men. An investigation quickly in a safe manner. The men suffered that there was no clear communication between McGrath and the operator identified that the platform had not serious injuries as a result of the use with no structured hand signals or radio communication. been secured to the forks correctly. of inappropriate work equipment Judge Donagh McDonagh recognised that the University had a good safety The court was told that this type which significantly increased the record and safety systems, but added: “The real reason for this incident is of platform was not suitable for the risk of an accident. I hope employers that the first articulated arm was not raised at least horizontal and parallel work and that the company had take note of this case and ensure with the ground. That would have given the operator a view.” The two men failed to plan the work, or provide that work at height - including the had been trained on how to operate the machine, but not on how to drive appropriate equipment for working selection of appropriate equipment it between work areas. McGrath’s was walking in front of the boom lift to at height. - is planned in detail and managed ensure that no pedestrians or obstacles were in the way - he was watching closely in order to prevent such The fact that the telehandler was out for the safety of others but not his own. The wheel of the boom lift accidents.” also being used to lift materials caught his foot causing him to fall and the machine then ran over him. The college was fined€ 80,000 plus €4,000 costs. Poor mast boom lift costs £11,700 Base Build Services of Abbey Road, London was fined £10,000 plus costs of £1,647.92 after a 31 year-old man was injured when a mast boom fell from the forks of a telehandler at Abbey Trading Centre, Who Redditch in November 2014. The injuries included a broken leg and facial injuries. trained The mast boom had been left in their area of work and needed to be moved to enable work to continue, so the site’s compact telehandler was used to move it. them The investigation found that Base Build was aware in advance that the lift would need to be moved before work could continue, but no plan or then? instructions for its removal had been provided. In addition, the lead labourer was standing by the telescopic handler as the lift took place but failed to stop the lifting operation, even though it was clearly unsafe. Spotted in It was discovered Kortrijk, Belgium that the telescopic in November, a handler was young man riding overloaded and that a pallet along with the JLG Toucan mast building materials boom was not lifted suspended from in accordance with the hook of a the manufacturer’s truck mounted instructions. Base aluminium crane. Build Services pleaded guilty to breaching CDM regulations.

December/January 2016 cranes & access 59 60 cranes & access December/January 2016 c&a IPAF focus IPAF operator training heads to New Zealand The first IPAF-approved training centres in New Zealand have opened and are ready to deliver high quality training for aerial lift operators.

Accessman, the largest specialised rental company in the South Island has recognised the opportunity to eLearning raises standard offer IPAF training to meet demand driven for operator training by the country’s IPAF has launched its new, enhanced eLearning module as part of evolving Health & its full training programme for US and Canadian operators of aerial Safety Act, which has work platforms. The launch follows two years of trials and further recently undergone development and testing, resulting in a high quality eLearning module reform and is due for that delivers flexibility and interactive tools, with the same emphasis on release in April 2016, practical training. and the Christchurch rebuild according to Together with supervised written their daily operations. Accessman’s general manager and practical testing of operator customers remains our number one The practical training is still Lena Harrington. priority and with IPAF on board, we skills, the eLearning module required, trainees who complete “IPAF provides a professional have a training system that delivers can lead to a Powered Access the online session must still pass a alternative to the only option by going above and beyond.” Licence/PAL Card which proves supervised theory test at an IPAF- currently available within New that the operator has successfully approved training centre and must Also starting up in Auckland on Zealand,” said Harrington. “Plus completed the training and is able successfully complete a minimum the North Island is Total Access. points are the five-year validity of to operate work platforms safely. half-day of practical training and The company’s facilities have been the PAL Card, stringent training The online learning experience testing before being issued a PAL audited and its instructors assessed guidelines and streamlined brings several benefits to operator Card as proof of successfully and certified to deliver IPAF training. processes. IPAF certainly delivers training. It is flexible. Trainees completed operator training. The There are IPAF-approved training a total package with administrative complete the theory part of the new programme is now being rolled centres across 34 countries. See support and innovative technology course online - anytime, anywhere, out internationally, starting with the the training centre locator at that will in time revolutionise the on any device, at their own pace, Benelux and the UK in 2016, with www.ipaf.org hire industry. The safety of our using the same material as in a several other languages to follow. classroom session and learning There are now over half a million the same subjects. The modules valid PAL Cards worldwide. PAL IPAF Powered use interactive tools and engages Cards can be verified online at operators by taking them through www.ipaf.org/checkpal Access games, quizzes, videos and More about IPAF operator eLearning How should product alerts and simulations to help them retain the is at www.ipaf.org/eLearning safety bulletins be issued so that required knowledge and skills for they are effective and serve their purpose? IPAF’s annual publication, IPAF Powered Access, contains First speakers announced useful information on this subject, along with features on beating for IPAF Summit 2016 equipment bandits and working Access and safety experts from Australia, Canada, Spain and the UK safely on roofs and mastclimbers. will speak at the IPAF Summit being held on March 17 2016 in Madrid, To obtain a copy e-mail info@ipaf. Spain. The IPAF Summit is followed by the International Awards for org or visit the Publications section Powered Access dinner and awards ceremony. of www.ipaf.org Confirmed speakers for the Summit include: • Brad Boehler, president Europlatform 2016 22nd of Skyjack September in Vienna • Jeremy Fish, managing director of Nationwide Platforms The Europlatform access rental conference will take place on 22nd September in Vienna, Austria. A networking event will take place on the • Tony Smith, senior investigator Nationwide Platforms evening before, at a venue to be confirmed in central Vienna - the “city of at the Regulatory Audit and managing director Jeremy music” on the Danube, known for its historical buildings and monuments, Investigation unit of Australia’s Fish will speak at the IPAF Summit in Madrid. Baroque castles and gardens. More details on the event venue, registration New South Wales Department fees and sponsorship will be of Industry Attendance is free and those added shortly at • Pedro Torres, chief operating interested should register in www.europlatform.info officer of Riwal advance at www.iapa-summit.info

December/January 2016 cranes & access 61 62 cranes & access December/January 2016 Championing c&a PASMA EN1004! If you don’t use towers that conform to EN1004, you risk your own life, or the life of someone else, each and every time you use one. EN 1004 is the European product standard for towers that sets out the minimum safety criteria. Throughout 2016 PASMA will be size and quantity of stabilisers to championing the safety critical prevent overturning. features of EN1004 towers In contrast, EN1004 towers have which can be recognised by the purpose-designed platforms with distinctive EN1004 label. Non- safe trapdoor entry and exit, offer essential to safe working. in a grid linked with bridging beams compliant towers, often referred to built-in access, come complete with Mobile access towers can provide and platforms. These are often as ‘domestic’ of ‘H-frame towers’ the necessary stabilisers, and have a safe solution in an extensive referred to as ’birdcage scaffold’ or represent a serious risk to users. the required number and type of range of work at height situations. ’boxing ring’. Typically they are made from guardrails to prevent a fall. Their flexibility of configuration, Other examples include bridging painted or galvanised steel and, Free leaflets and posters are strength with lightness and speed structures, façade tower structures, amongst other things, use loose available from PASMA which of assembly and dismantling, stepped structures and high level scaffold boards or home made emphasise the serious and are just some of their significant structures which are towers that platforms which can break or move, significant differences between the advantages. Advance configurations exceed the standard free standing have no built-in access to ensure two types of tower and reinforce include large deck structures heights of 8 metres for external use safe ascent and descent, and do the message that selecting and where a series of towers are joined and 12 metres for internal use. not come supplied with the correct using the correct equipment is together in two or more directions

You must also be trained and continue to campaign for towers competent to build and dismantle to be properly assembled and a tower. Selecting, inspecting and inspected by a trained, competent maintaining the correct equipment person following the PASMA Code is essential to safe working. of Practice and the manufacturer’s PASMA marketing and instructions. Significantly, communications officer, Gary adhering to a strict inspection Chudleigh said: “Incidents like this and audit regime is obligatory are entirely preventable. That’s for PASMA members.” why, throughout 2016, we will Diary dates for 2016

Safety & Health Expo: PASMA will again be exhibiting at the Safety & A salutary warning Health Expo, 21-23 June, at ExCeL, London. Throughout 2015 PASMA has taken the opportunity to comment on AIF Conference: successful Health & Safety Executive prosecutions, following earlier ‘Managing change accidents involving towers that had resulted in either serious injury and innovation in working or in some cases a directly related fatality. at height’ will be the The need for the proper inspection customer and his workers. There principal theme of the and maintenance of mobile access was no excuse for allowing the use Access Industry Forum’s towers was tragically highlighted at work of mobile access tower first conference on 13th with the death of James Baillie, components that were in such a October, at Holywell Park, 53, who fell six metres from a poor condition. The scaffolding Loughborough. The lead faulty tower in September 2011. industry is well aware of the risks speaker will be Philip As reported in the Health & Safety involved in this type of work. The White, head of Executive’s press release, the tower should have been properly the HSE’s Operational Strategy Division. company involved was fined inspected and maintained, or PASMA Tower Week: This will take place from the 14th to the 18th £40,000 for breaching the relevant otherwise taken out of service”. November. An information pack for members will be available later in health and safety regulations. This fatality and others, underlines the year. The court heard that the tower the absolute necessity for platform was in “a bad state of access towers, or any item of repair due to brown rot decay,” work at height equipment, to be For details of PASMA when Baillie stepped on to it. It subject to the completion of a standards, guidance and gave way causing him to fall to pre-use inspection record. Tower training, including free the ground. The HSE said: “The components should also be PocketCards and posters, company failed to provide safe and inspected at suitable intervals and www.pasma.co.uk visit: www.pasma.co.uk suitable working equipment for their a record kept of those inspections.

December/January 2016 cranes & access 63 64 cranes & access December/January 2016 The Future of c&a CPA Construction equipment The Construction Plant-hire Association’s 2015 conference attracted a good number of delegates this year with the main topic The Future of Construction Plant Hire. Martin Frank, research engineer at Volvo Construction spoke on Intelligent Machines.

on Supply Chain Capacity and on Preventing Unintentional Capability. Movement Of Equipment. “New technology is all well and Unintentional movement can be good, but if we don’t have the caused by mistake if the operator people and equipment to meet pulls the wrong lever for example, future demand, we risk missing or when loose clothing catches much of its potential,” he said. a control lever. “There are three “Highways England has invested important contributing factors - more than £1 million on a project planning and management, machine to assess demands over the next design and operator competence.” five years and the industry’s ability “A CPA study examined 11 Glyn Matthews to meet those requirements. The accidents caused by unintentional industry has lost more than 400,000 movement of the machine. In four which technology can help the people since 2007 and will need cases operator competence was a operator, Speedy is focussing on to recruit around 1.1 million new ways on how new technology can workers by 2020. The biggest skills transform its customer’s experience. shortage is at supervisor level. “We are all used to holding the The industry needs to bring around latest technology in our hands 1,000 new apprentices a year into with smartphones and tablets. the road equipment sector, currently Construction equipment users on it takes on around 250 youngsters site are familiar with the technology, a year.” yet in many cases hire companies Sonya Hill of the West Midlands are still using paper delivery notes Police on Tackling the Skills and invoicing,” he said. “Suddenly Shortage. technology has become useable and The West Midlands Police is we have a generation of customers working with The Prince’s Trust who want online ordering and up to running a 12 week Prince’s Trust date information, but how many hire Team Programme for 16 to 25 Tim Watson His company has taken a step companies are delivering it? There year olds who are unemployed, back from further development is no point equipping a delivery including those leaving care and major factor, while 10 were down to examine the benefits and driver with a huge tablet, capable young offenders. The trainees work to lack of supervision, 11 involved true need of automation. The of numerous functions when all a on team working skills as well as poor planning and 10 had people company has been testing fully customer requires is delivery-sign- fundraising for local community within the machine’s working autonomous machines, but has off, communication with the depot projects. The course involves two- range,” said Watson. The CPA is realised that there are benefits to and back-office data transmission week work placements followed developing guidance for operators, be had from much less forward- for instance.” by CV preparation and lessons in site managers and domestic users looking technology including Smart He highlighted the Radio Frequency interview techniques. She asked of equipment. View 360˚ cameras. He stressed IDentification (RFID) tag and that more companies sign up as Sam Stacey, head of innovation at however that it is vital the operator stressed how it is allowing Speedy business partners, and to offer Skanska UK spoke on The Future of trusts both the benefits and the to locate and track inventory and work placements or employment. Construction. actual automation, stressing that enable its ePod self-serve on-site To demonstrate the success of the Skanska is working on a range of they need to adapt to new ways rental store. It currently has 35 self- scheme, Hill was accompanied by projects to develop robotics for of working, trusting intelligent hire centres on UK sites - mainly in Anthony Brown, who having been construction, using Oculus Rift functions to carry out some tasks. dockyards, power stations and on in trouble with the law, joined the virtual reality glasses and RFID Glyn Matthews, head of larger road contracts. The RFID tags programme. “I finished the course technology. One of the biggest transformation at Speedy Services are also helpful in the workshop, and went straight into work with potential developments comes addressed Technology Enabled automatically bringing up machine Amey. It was the best thing that has from temporary on-site production Transformation - Improving history, service requirements and ever happened to me,” he said. See facilities. “We have come up with a Customer Experience. parts diagrams for the engineer, C&A November page 51 for more method called flying factories. Once He pointed out that while helping improve productivity. information. you get things off site you can start manufacturers look at ways in Phil Ellis of Highways England spoke Consultant Tim Watson spoke looking at automation,” he said.

December/January 2016 cranes & access 65 ALL THE ORIGINAL INGREDIENTS June 15th and 16th 2016 marks 10 years of Vertikal Days at Haydock Park Now a major event in the European calendar for lifting and access professionals but with all the original ingredients... Cranes, Access Platforms and Telehandlers... and everything else in-between!

To exhibit, email the Vertikal Days team at [email protected] or call +44(0)8448 155900

To visit, register online at www.vertikaldays.net

www.vertikaldays.net Liebherr c&a books & models LTM 1350-6.1 in colour The 1:50 scale model of the Liebherr LTM 1350-6.1 is made by WSI Models and was first introduced back in 2012. The first versions of the model were affected by some modelling issues, but since then it has been considerably improved. Austrian: Felbermayr colours The new model has also been spooling drums, and with casting released in a number of crane details and small graphics it looks Spanish: Roxu colours with Y-Guy on board company liveries and four of these very realistic. The inner telescope are featured in the photographs sections have a realistic profile with here. Three are mainland thin walls. At the boom nose the European rental companies and sheaves are metal. one is from the USA. One notable All of the main operating features omission so far is that there are functional on the model. A are no versions produced in the recent enhancement in the versions colours of a UK company. reviewed here is the addition of This model is highly detailed. boom pinning locks at the 46, 92 Looking underneath, the chassis and 100 percent extension positions includes hosing which runs between for each of the telescopic sections. various small tanks. The tyres have This allows very realistic poses to Michelin logos in the tyre sidewalls, be easily set. with different hubs for driven and In summary this an excellent non-driven axles. Tiny graphics add model and looks particularly good detail all around the model and give in company colours. In Liebherr German: H.N. Krane colours it a realistic feel. colours it costs €279 from the The outriggers have a working Liebherr web shop, with models in pinning mechanism which allows company colours typically costing the pads to be fixed in an offset way around €50 more from dealers. so they are within the footprint of To read the full review of this model the crane when the outrigger beams visit www.cranesetc.co.uk are retracted and locking bars keep the pads neatly under the crane. Cranes Ect Model Rating The crane superstructure has two Packaging (max 10) 8 sets of metal handrails - one for Detail (max 30) 27 when the crane is in transport mode Features (max 20) 18 and the other for when it is working. Quality (max 25) 20 The main boom lift cylinder is an excellent metal part. Detailing on the Price (max 15) 11 boom includes a couple of rotating Overall (max 100) 84%

Loading up the ballast complete with auxiliary hoist

Boom fully extended

Bay Crane from the USA

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Readers c&a letters Good morning, I am a fan of your cranes & access magazine, which is extremely informative. I would like to ask you, if it is mandatory that the crawler cranes must be placed over wood mats to establish better stability. Thank you in advance. Dear Sir, Yours sincerely / Μετά τιμής It really bothers me when people get ‘offended‘ when you Miltiadis Spiridakis politely point out that they are running a significant risk, or HSE Specialist QSE breaking the law with dangerous working practices - both when working at height or lifting. It is as though being Vestas Mediterranean ‘offended’ somehow makes them right. We wrote back: I live in Glasgow and see this kind of thing a lot, I used to try Dear Miltiadis, many thanks for your kind comments, educate people in what they are doing wrong but not once was No it is not mandatory, it all depends on the size of the crawler crane, the it met with any gratitude. Every single time it was aggression loads applied in its fully loaded configuration and the type of ground it is so now I don’t even bother. Sunday in Glasgow is extremely moving on. Cranes that need to move while fully loaded do need further busy for truck mounted lifts, on average maybe seven or measures as the moving and turning of the tracks while loaded, creates eight and I guarantee less than 50 percent of them are set- additional stress on the ground. Generally very large crawler crane almost up properly, it’s a joke and the worst ones for it are council always need mats, while very small crawlers rarely need mats, and all operated ones, I don’t ever remember seeing one single one those in between will depend on the factors mentioned. set-up correctly. I hope this all makes sense I’ve only been in the industry for seven years but the rest of We can publish your letter if you like to generate further input and my working life was spent with …. company name withheld comment, either with your full name or as an anonymous request? to protect identity……. and I have been shocked at the lack of Best wishes respect for health and safety in this industry and how more Dear Leigh, people aren’t killed or seriously injured I honestly don’t know, it My Question goes more for LR1400 size crawler cranes. I am very positive seems Lady Luck is extremely busy. to publish my letter as I would like to get some concrete arguments for using Anyhow thanks for responding I do love the site, it’s great for mats under such cranes. Note to add, that the cranes I am referring to, lift information loads of 40-50 tonnes at a height of 90-100 metres. Thanks very much Great talking with you. Name withheld for obvious reasons Miltiadis Spiridakis

Dear Miltiadis, This is very typical, and we take a lot of flack and even threats ourselves The LR1400 is bang in the middle, it will manage without mats on very when publishing Death Wish or ‘Who trained him them’ photos, or good firm ground, BUT where you would have to be careful is if you started accidents. However, in many cases such reports do lead to a shake- moving with 50 tonnes on 100 metres of boom! You really ought to be up in the way the company works and everyone gains. Another typical running on mats unless the ground is not only very firm, but also has been reaction is to try and supress coverage, and if anyone tries to take a photo tested along the route. The problem is that the loadings on the front of the of someone working inappropriately they risk aggression - sometimes tracks will be high and any attempt to turn will create further stress on the extreme aggression! This inclination to supress is not limited to operators, surface. If on good firm ground and operating from one position it might etterssmall companies or ‘one man bands’. Some of the worst offenders are big be OK, but you would need to carry out a proper ground survey and check contractors, who will use their financial muscle to squash any coverage. the ground capacity against the ground bearing pressures published by the The most irritating examples come from companies that take the moral high manufacturer. ground on safety, gathering certifications and even winning safety awards. If in doubt always use mats! And with up to 100 metres of boom in place it As we start a new year it would be nice if the lifting industry could follow is just not worth the risk the long established example set by the aviation industry. Let’s see what others, including our readers might say Best wishes Leigh Dear Sir, As an Ainscough crane operator currently in negotiations, This is exactly the case. It is moving for a few metres with full load. It backed by the union Unite, asking for some 12 percent pay would be interesting to hear input from different interested parties. increase. The management have treated us like trained apes Thank you again for the support. for far too long……… Miltiadis L Note: Before we get criticised for daring to hand out advice, this was This letter was sent in by mobile phone, and appears to have been cut not for a job due to start that very day, it was and is more to garner more off mid sentence. advice and clarification on the issue which clearly causes an issue with A ballot for strike action was due to close on January 11th, after the crane operator/owners around the world, given the number of crawler company’s revised two year pay offer of 2.5 and 2.75 percent, was cranes that overturn. All input advice and reference to other documents overwhelmingly rejected by operator’s belonging to the Unite union. would be warmly welcomed and will be published.

December/January 2016 cranes & access 69 letters c&a Readers

Dear Sir, Dear Sir, A friend of mine spotted a large truck mounted lift working in the street In his outstanding book Checklist Manifesto today, he took a photograph and sent it to me with some questions about the author Dr. Atul Gawande clearly points what type of machine it was and asking if it was not a little too big for the out that work related mistakes are caused job it was working on. by ignorance and ineptitude. People who To start with I thought it was funny and that the machine was a bit of an work at height cannot afford to ignore safety overkill so I posted it on a Facebook, where a few people proceeded to equipment and the rules of gravity. This year point out that no outrigger matts had been used and possibly no harness the frequency of falls from height has been also pavement was not shut off. a weekly occurrence especially in tree work The operator then noticed it on Facebook and the whole thing escalated to and many have been fatal. I am preaching a point where the photographer’s employers complained that as it was on safety and I know the audience is not deaf. I Facebook and they were “ruining his business “. preach this for my team and we work safely. It seems to me if he had set the machine up properly he wouldn’t have had It does not cost us any more to be safe... anything to complain about and would have got some good free publicity AAMOF (As a Matter Of Fact) it costs us less for his nice looking machine. etters because we can work the next day just as ably. We have withheld the writer’s name and edited the text slightly to protect the Yours writer who has made a very good and important point. We totally agree, we know from bitter experience that this sort of reaction is not This one came into our letters page but we do not uncommon, companies that simply do not bother to ensure that operators follow good working practices are the fastestL to complain when a photograph taken of their machine seem to have saved the writers name in the file, possibly because he did not include it or possible goes on line, often complaining that they have been victimised. They don’t seem to due to our sloppiness – given what a good letter understand that if only they did things properly they could relax when photos are taken this is if the writer would like to claim credit we and enjoy the positive publicity. In spite of this we have found that such occurrences do will correct this oversight in the next issue. Ed often prove to be a catalyst to the protagonists changing their ways. In which case all the grief is well worth it. Ed

Sebastian Wilkinson set out to cycle from Brisbane to Sydney Below are some excerpts from the daily blog written by support van driver in order to raise funds for cancer charities in memory of his Charlie Gilmour: father Simon who died in July. Here is letter we will also add “Fresh start, new day. After yesterday’s issues with the bike breaking and tracking parts of his daily blog on line. issues, the focus was to plough on, reaching rest stops in good time and beating the Dear Leigh, midday sun. To say we totally underestimated it would be the most accurate Sometimes things don’t go to plan, and today, they didn’t. Up a 4am, prepped the way of summing this challenge up, however we did manage to bike, greased the chain and checked tyre pressures, but in doing so the inner tube complete it within the five days that we had set ourselves - but valve snapped, rendering the tube completely useless. After a swift change of tube only just. The final time was four days, 23 hours and 10 minutes! Seb was back on the Pacific Highway, heading south. We experienced everything from hailstorms to 46 degree’s with The road train lorries in Australia are fast and reckless. Within 10 minutes Seb had forest fires, not factors we had accounted for. The physical and already encountered too many close calls. The solution: Drive behind on the hard mental aspects started to take their toll by day two after the bike shoulder, hazards on, protecting Seb from the traffic. broke and it took five hours to fix in Byron Bay. The end result No longer than 10 minutes later, loose wood was thrown into Seb, injuring him and was that I had to cycle through the night to make up the miles, damaging the bike cracking the carbon wheel, and stopping it from turning. The with just two hours sleep that night and another 16.5 hours in solution: Remove the front brake, allowing movement and stability. the saddle the following day. Dehydration combined with sleep The route was now deviating away from the Pacific Highway, along quieter country deprivation and jet lag meant the whole trip became hell. I then roads, perfect for the bike. But bad things come in threes. After a great push came off the bike on the Thursday evening in a storm, damaging along the quieter roads, making up lost time, we came across the ‘Road’ designed my elbow and the bike. according to the Garmin for a road bike, this was not a road, more a path a deer However arriving at the opera house was a moment that I will might trample in a wood. Unsafe, dangerous and impossible to cross. Seb was now never forget, all of a sudden the blood sweet and tears was all in the midday sun and having to go back on himself to reach a detour. worth it. We have now raised just over our target of £11,000 for Cycling the distance from Brisbane to Sydney is no easy feat, we knew this before Macmillan in my dad’s memory. we left the UK - but underestimated big time. To see a man come off a bike with I would like to thank the industry for their very kind contributions, bleeding sores and rashes all over his body, dehydrated, jet lagged and dealing with especially Gordon Leicester and Facelift who played an bereavement isn’t something you want to witness, all you want to say is “pack it instrumental role in helping fund the challenge. If anyone feels in mate” - you can’t, you can’t intervene, the cycle is more than simply Brisbane to compelled to donate we would welcome their support at www. Sydney, it’s not just raising money for a Cancer Charity. You strip it down to a young grippingmiles.com which has link to our just giving page. bloke dealing with a death of a family member, turning the grief into something positive, without which the cycle and amount raised would have never happened. Many thanks Sebastian Wilkinson

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