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www.vertikal.net £8 November December 2006 Vol. 8 issue 8 20062006 RentalRental RatesRates SurveySurvey TowerTower cranecrane Anti-CollisionAnti-Collision andand safetysafety KnuckleKnuckle boomboom Articulated attachments self propelled attachments booms The latest new products from SAIE The LARGEST UK CIRCULATION of any lifting equipment magazine On the cover: A Genie Z60/34 working on the Souter Lighthouse, Tyne and Wear, for English Heritage. For full story see page 21. & ccontentsa Comment 5 SAIE 41 Articulating booms 17 This years SAIE fair in News 6 Bologna was one of the best Tower crane collapse in ever with tower cranes, Seattle, Tower crane collision loader cranes, telehandlers in London, Lavendon and access platforms out in force. We dedicate acquires Gardemann, four packed pages to all that was new at the show. Facelift resurrects Universal, Manitowoc announces the 14000, New derrick crane from Safety and Anti Liebherr, Half year and three quarter financials, Yongmao tower cranes arrive in Europe, Zoomlion collision devices 47 ships first truck cranes to Europe, JCB doubles production capacity but who has built the most Our in-depth look at safety devices primarily 25 2006 Rental rate guide and who is market leader?, New president for concentrates on the hot topic of anti-collision Terex Group, Easi-UpLifts moves into England, devices for tower cranes as well as looking at Speedy buys LGH, 100,000th JLG boom lift. other new safety items. Articulated booms 17 Face to face 51 In our annual in-depth look at articulated self Mark Darwin talks to Alfons Thihatmer of propelled booms we check out the Teupen following a visit to the company's growing range of 50 to 51 ft models. Are they production facility in November. taking over from the all-popular 45 ft models? We also review the top end of the market now that Electrocution there is a real choice of product offerings in the 35 Loader crane attachments 125 to 135 ft platform height. While product accidents 52 development has been only steady, we find a A real risk on loader cranes - we report on surprising number of interesting developments, two incidents and look at what lessons particularly in the growing Nifty range. can be learned. 2006 Rental rate survey 25 regulars Our seventh annual rental rate survey ALLMI focus 53 shows the UK and Irish markets in a buoyant mood for both cranes and access, Training 55 SUBSCRIPTIONS: Cranes & Access is published eight times a year while telehandlers are a little less certain. 2006 and is available on payment of an annual subscription of £40.00. If you wish to subscribe, please send a crossed cheque made has certainly been a better year than many had IPAF focus 57 payable to The Vertikal Press Ltd to: Subscriptions, The Vertikal predicted. Most companies that responded Press, PO Box 6998, Brackley, Northants NN13 5WY. Address changes should also be sent to this address. Please include the said that rates had increased and that 2007 Books and models 59 address label from a recent issue with all correspondence and allow 3 looked stable to good. Fleets have also months for changes to be effective. continued to expand. SUBSCRIBE ONLINE AT: Web links 60 www.vertikal.net/en/journal_subscription.php BULK DISCOUNTS: These are available to companies wishing to Knuckle boom crane take out multiple subscriptions. Please contact the subscriptions Letters 62 manager for more details. attachments 35 Tel: +44 (0)8707 740436 Fax:+44 (0)1295 768223 E-mail: [email protected] Sales of tracked 'spider boom' aerial lifts have Innovations 64 Kran & Bühne: The Vertikal Press also publishes a German soared in recent years. We explore the rarer self magazine which deals with the same issues as Cranes & Access, propelled crawler lifts, look at some very special but is written for German users and buyers. Details available What’s on 65 on request. crawler mounted scissor lifts and ask why they While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of information are not more popular in the UK and Ireland? published in Cranes & Access, the Editor and Publisher can accept no responsibility for inaccuracies or omissions. Views expressed in articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect In the next C&A those of the Editor or Publisher. Material published in Cranes & Access is protected under international copyright law and may not We take a look back at the industry events of 2006 • Electric scissor lifts - what's new? • Small All Terrain and City be reproduced without prior permission from the publishers. cranes, we look at mobiles under 50 tonnes • Batteries - with electric powered vehicles coming to the fore, what benefits might we see for electric powered cranes and platforms? • New Pasma page joins our regular features. November / December 2006 cranes & access 3 & ccommenta The UK Health and Safety Executive has cranes informed tower crane rental companies that life is about to change and that new rules will be applied in respect to tower crane erection and &access inspections. It justifies what some feel is a heavy handed over-reaction, with the fact that The Vertikal Press For users & buyers of lifting equipment PO box 6998 Brackley NN13 5WY. UK November / December 2006 Vol. 8 issue 8 six people have died in the UK over the past Tel: +44(0)8707 740436 Fax: +44(0)1295 768223 four years in an industry that it estimates employs less than 2,000. email: [email protected] Editors: web: www.vertikal.net Leigh Sparrow What has brought this to a sudden head was the very public accident in In Germany: Mark Darwin Battersea, London, when the top of a 1985 BPR-Richier crane owned by Falcon Vertikal Verlag Sundgaualle 15, D-79114, cranes, became detached from its tower, killing the operator along with a Freiburg, Germany Associate Editors: member of the public. Barely two weeks later the boom of a luffing tower crane Tel: 0761 8978660 Fax: 0761 8866814 Ian Boughton became detached after colliding with another crane on a site in central London. email: [email protected] Rüdiger Kopf web: www.vertikal.net Alexander Ochs Suddenly tower cranes became the dangerous breed of the moment, tweaking Germany, Scandinavia, Austria and Switzerland this nanny ‘government's’ tendency to legislate or ban. It is extremely likely that Karlheinz Kopp, Vertikal Verlag, Sales & customer support: the HSE has been told to ‘sort it’ or at least to provide a new policy that might Sundgaualle 15,D-79114, Freiburg, Germany Pam Penny Tel: +49 (0)761 89786615 serve as a suitable sound bite for the government's overstaffed spin machine. Fax:+49 (0)761 8866814 Karlheinz Kopp email: [email protected] On the other hand seven people - including a totally uninvolved member of the Italy Production: public- have died. Maybe this is a band of cowboys that needs the sheriff to Fabio Potestà, Mediapoint, Nicole Engesser take action? Corte Lambruschini, Corso Buenos Aires 8, V Piano-Interno 7, I-16129 Genova, Italy Publisher: Sadly while this may have been the case, the UK tower crane industry has taken Tel: 010 570 4948 Fax: 010 553 0088 Leigh Sparrow a close look at itself over the past two years and introduced a wide range of new email: mediapointsrl.it work practices and initiatives to improve professionalism and safety within what The Netherlands is a relatively close knit industry. The Battersea incident is, thank goodness, an Hans Aarse 39 Seringenstraat, 3295 RN, The Vertikal Press Ltd. extremely rare type of accident and the cause of which should by now have been S-Gravendeel, The Netherlands MEMBERS OF clearly identified. If lessons are to be learnt the details should be made known. Tel:+31-78 673 4007 Mobile:+31(0) 630421042 email: [email protected] The previous fatal accident, in which two highly experienced erectors lost their lives, has been clearly attributed to inexplicable occurrence of human error. In UK and all other areas that case, the HSE has still not fully disclosed its findings, some two years on. Pam Penny PO box 6998 Brackley NN13 5WY. UK In spite of suggesting that a lack of training might have contributed, it has not Tel: +44(0)8707 740436 informed the company involved if it plans to prosecute or not. email: [email protected] Design & Artwork by: What the tower crane hire industry needs now is for the HSE to quickly report bp design Ltd. on its findings at Battersea and the more recent collision incident, even if this Tel: 01707 642141 Fax: 01707 646806 email: [email protected] means issuing a preliminary report for the industry to consider. It most certainly ISSN: 1467-0852 does not need the introduction of new rules imposed from on-high by an inexperienced inspectorate. © Copyright The Vertikal Press Limited 2006 Surely the government has learned from the dangerous dogs and hunting laws that a knee jerk regulation is always a mistake. Letters, emails, faxes and Hopefully the HSE will have the spine to tell the government that this is not phone calls are welcome and an issue for sound bites or spin and will start sharing information from its investigations so that lessons can be learnt sooner rather than later. should be sent to: Leigh W Sparrow The Editor, The Vertikal Press also publishes: cranes & access, PO Box 6998, Brackley Please mail, email or fax any comments you may have, to the editor, NN13 5WY, UK stating if we may publish them or not. Tel: +44(0)8707 740436 Fax: +44(0)1295 768223 email: [email protected] November / December 2006 cranes & access 5 its rental fleet outside of Europe and London Tower news c&a Cranes is the reports that it has been extremely UK/Ireland satisfied with the performance and dealer reliability of the product.