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Comment 5 Look back at 17 Loader cranes News 6 2013 45 Fatal crane collapse at Sao Paulo World Cup Although a mixed year stadium, New UK access rental company, Terex depending greatly on Cranes reveals where you live, 2013 has ‘boom booster’, generally been a step in Fassi acquires the right direction for Cranab, Bronto to most companies in our sector. The Cranes & launch two axle 47 metre Access annual review looks back at industry platform, Speedy CEO resigns, Three access highlights as well as the major news and events acquisitions for Palfinger, Manitex completes from the world at large. 35 Truck mounted lifts Valla takeover, New Michelin crane tyre, Liebherr tests largest tower crane, Integrated Logistics takes AC1000, Penny launches new hydraulic spoil box, IPAF introduces Smart PAL Card, Hiab China JV moves ahead, New MD regulars for Nationwide Platforms, Grúas Roxu opens in Costa Rica. ALLMI Focus 57 Loader cranes 17 This month we take a look at Training 59 loader crane developments 45 Look back at 2013 including interviews with IPAF Focus 61 Transloader Services director and ALLMI board member PASMA Focus 63 Carly Barnard (L) and HMF UK managing director Ian Innovations 65 Roberts. Books and Models 67 Annual rental rate Letters 69 guide 25 This year’s rental rate guide has revealed the What’s on 71 SUBSCRIPTIONS: Cranes & Access is published eight times a year and is available on payment of an annual subscription of £40.00. most positive mood since 2007. Companies If you wish to subscribe, please send a crossed cheque made within all three sectors we Online directory 80 payable to The Vertikal Press Ltd to: Subscriptions, The Vertikal 10% (0%) Press, PO Box 6998, Brackley, Northants NN13 5WY. Address 45% cover - cranes, powered changes should also be sent to this address. Please include the (38%) 45% access and telehandlers address label from a recent issue with all correspondence and (62%) allow 3 months for changes to be effective. - have reported more Subscribe online at: stability, improvements and www.vertikal.net/en/journal_subscription.php a positive view for 2014. In the next C&A BULK DISCOUNTS: These are available to companies wishing to take out multiple subscriptions. Please contact the subscriptions The next issue of Cranes & Access, manager for more details. Truck mounted scheduled for the end of February, will Tel: +44 (0)8448 155900 Fax:+44 (0)1295 768223 E-mail: [email protected] feature Batteries, our main preview of the Kran & Bühne: The Vertikal Press also publishes a German lifts 35 Conexpo show in Las Vegas this March, We ask is there a shift away from the magazine which deals with the same issues as Cranes & Access, Self-propelled electric boom lifts and Rough but is written for German users and buyers. Details available on established Northern European medium to request. Terrain cranes. If you have any contributions large truck mounted platforms, towards Italian While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of information or suggestions, please contact our published in Cranes & Access, the Editor and Publisher can accept manufacturers as well as looking at new no responsibility for inaccuracies or omissions. Views expressed in editorial team. articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect products that are scheduled to hit the market. those of the Editor or Publisher. Material published in Cranes & Access is protected under international copyright law and may not be reproduced without prior permission from the publishers.

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December/January 2014 cranes & access 3 cranes &access c&a For users & buyers of lifting equipment comment December/January 2014 Vol. 15 issue 9 Happy New Year! (almost) Editorial team Mark Darwin - Editor Edward Darwin - Assistant editor By the time you are reading this we will be a few weeks into 2014 with [email protected] Christmas and New Year celebrations a distant memory as we cope Associate editors Rüdiger Kopf (Freiburg) with a damp and windy or freezing January in the Northern Hemisphere. Alexander Ochs (Freiburg) However our Annual Rental Rate Guide should provide some cheer and Leigh Sparrow makes for very good reading. Sales & customer support Pam Penny The survey, carried out in the UK, reports the most positive mood since 2007, with rate stability and Clare Engelke even improvements across the board. But perhaps more importantly the majority of fleets have started Karlheinz Kopp expanding again and the forecast for 2014 is positive. Good news for rental companies, manufacturers Production/Administration Nicole Engesser and end-users alike and hopefully the beginning of a period where rental rates begin to reflect the true Subscriptions cost of the equipment, expertise and support services. Lee Sparrow Unfortunately some areas have not moved on at all. One is the way in which the Health & Safety Publisher Leigh Sparrow Executive investigates accidents in the UK. Let me say now that we whole-heartedly support the work Advertising sales the HSE does and want to see it playing a greater role in creating a better industry for us all. However its UK based policy towards accident investigations is totally unfit for purpose. Pam Penny [email protected] Tel:+44 (0)7917 155657 We have often highlighted the length of time taken - years in many cases - to divulge information relating Clare Engelke [email protected] to an accident. In November IPAF asked the government to look into the time taken by the HSE to report Tel:+44 (0)7989 970862 Germany based on its technical investigation into a fatal boom lift accident in June 2013. It received a response from Karlheinz Kopp [email protected] Mike Penning, UK minister of state for disabled people, explaining the actions being taken etc etc etc….. Tel:+49 (0)761 89786615 However it was when chasing a comment from the HSE that we were made aware that the whole point Italy Fabio Potestà, of an HSE investigation is not to produce a report telling us what and why it happened, but to “determine Mediapoint, whether there has been a criminal breach of a law and as a result whether enforcement action is Corte Lambruschini, Corso Buenos Aires 8, V Piano-Interno 7, necessary.” I-16129 Genova, Italy Tel: 010 570 4948 Fax: 010 553 0088 We thought, along with most of the industry, that the HSE was supposed to publish its findings when email: mediapointsrl.it investigating a serious accident, so that we all might learn and improve. Instead it seems the HSE The Vertikal Press believes it is a second police force, rather than an agency with a charter to improve safety at work. PO box 6998 Brackley NN13 5WY, UK Tel:+44(0)8448 155900 If that is so then we need an alternative ‘reputable organisation’ like the Civil Aviation Authority that Fax:+44(0)1295 768223 produces accurate investigation reports quickly and lets the industry get on with its business, rather than email: [email protected] web: www.vertikal.net keeping it in limbo - in some cases for years. Vertikal Verlag Sundgauallee 15, D-79114, Wishing you all a happy, healthy and prosperous 2014 Freiburg, Germany Tel: 0761 8978660 Fax: 0761 8866814 email: [email protected] web: www.vertikal.net Mark Darwin Comment and feedback is most welcome via post, email, fax or phone stating if we may publish them or not: [email protected]

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December/January 2014 cranes & access 5 news c&a Terex Cranes reveals ‘boom booster’ Terex Cranes has released preliminary specifications for a new capacity-increasing Terex Cranes upgrade kit for its CC 8800-1 ‘boom booster’ upgrade kit. crawler crane. The ‘Boom Booster’ is currently on test with first shipments planned for this summer. Terex claims the ‘boom booster’ provides a significant increase in capacities with long system lengths, is cost effective to transport and can be retrofitted to anyCC 8800-1. The incident at the Corinthians stadium The new kit comprises five, 10 metre long by 10 metres wide bolt-together boom sections, plus two 11 metre long bolt-together tapered sections, providing a new extra wide boom of up to 72 metres, to which standard Fatal crane collapse at Sao boom sections can be added. When using the boom booster the maximum counterweight on the carrier jumps from 640 to 800 tonnes, giving the CC Paulo World Cup stadium 8800-1 in Booster SFVL configuration with 86 metres of main boom plus a In late November two people died when a large crawler crane 12 metre jib (90 metre hook height) a capacity of 953 tonnes at 20 metres collapsed at Sao Paulo’s Arena Corinthians stadium which is due and 892 tonnes at 24 metres radius - ideal for long heavy items. to host the opening ceremony for the 2014 football World Cup on 12th June. The boom of the crane - a 1,350 tonne Liebherr LR 11350 owned by Brazil’s Fassi acquires Cranab largest crane company Locar - appears to have gone over the back and to the side of the machine breaking the superstructure connections. Italian loader crane manufacturer Fassi has acquired a controlling The crane was specifically brought in to install the large roof structure and interest in Swedish timber crane manufacturer Cranab, in partnership was working with suspended derrick mast counterweight, lifting the final with three Swedish investment companies - Mittkapital, Ekonord and 420 tonne section into place when things went wrong. An investigation is Inlandsinnovation - via their jointly held Z-Forestab fund. Details of the continuing and while claims of excessive hours, seven day working and equity split have not been revealed. pressure to complete the job have been made, no official statements have At the same time Cranab has acquired Bracke Forest AB, a manufacturer been issued. of forestry attachments including scarifiers, New access rental supplier planting machines, A new UK-based access rental company United Powered Access has biomass heads, formally started trading to external customers. The company which is felling heads and based in Lymm, Cheshire is owned by the CA Group - one of the UK’s equipment for leading metal roofing and cladding system manufacturers - which has mechanised an equally strong contracting business specialising in industrial, seeding. commercial, public sector and refurbishment markets. A Cranab forestry Greg Miller - an experienced access veteran of almost 30 years - set up and loader crane is heading United after being recruited to look into the feasibility of a new rental operation to supply CA’s own needs and those of like-minded contractors following problems sourcing specific equipment. Boom upgrade kit for Liebherr LR 1600/2 Miller settled on two major suppliers to begin with, Skyjack for scissor lifts, Liebherr has introduced a boom upgrade kit for its LR 1600/2 crawler especially the company’s SJ9250 and 8841 big deck models, and Niftylift crane which increases lifting for booms - particularly its Hybrid 4x4 units although it has taken a range capacities by up to 20 percent A LR 1600/2 crawler crane fitted with of machines including the HR12 Bi-Energy, HR12 4x4, HR17 and HR21. and extends the heavy duty lift Liebherr’s new The Skyjack models include 6826s and SJ vertical mast models. height by 15 metres. The SL-10 boom upgrade With more units on order the fleet should exceed 200 units by mid-year. new SL-10 system, combined for big turbines with 12 metre fixed jib takes the maximum hook height to more than 160 metres at United Powered which it can lift 71 tonnes. Access’ new premises in A more direct comparison with Lymm. the standard boom shows an increase in capacity from 77 to 92 tonnes at a hook height of 147 metres. The boom kit allows the crane to erect the latest generation of wind turbines with tower heights of up to 150 metres. The derrick system has also been improved to allow the Tim Ward of Nifty longer main boom and jib hands over the latest combinations to be erected. boom lifts to Greg Miller of UPA.

6 cranes & access December/January 2014 c&a news Skyjack launches secondary guarding systems Bronto launched is XR range at Bauma – the new 47m will be on a two axle chassis Skyjack has announced two secondary guarding options for its range of boom lifts - the Bronto to launch mechanical SG-M structure which features a lightweight protective steel structure that two axle 47m physically protects the operator Bronto plans to introduce a 47 metre platform mounted on an 18 tonne from being pressed against the The Skyjack SG-E secondary guarding system two axle chassis this year. The new S47XR will be the third unit in the controls and the SG-E electronic system which features a sensor bar company’s XR series, joining the 56 metre S56XR and 65 metre S65XR that, when pushed, instantly stops all machine functions and initiates a launched at Bauma. The S47XR will have the same specification levels and siren and high intensity flashing beacon. technology as the larger models. Expect to see it in sometime this summer. If the bar is released within a second, the siren and beacon will cease, and the selected function will return. If pressure is applied for more than a second, they will continue to operate and the engine will stop, halting ‘Secondary Guarding’ - all functions until the machine is reset. Anti-Entrapment devices are now Skyjack developed the solutions in co-operation with UK based Select its official known as Secondary Guarding Plant Hire, the rental/equipment division of Laing O’Rourke, which recently The UK Strategic Forum for purchased 250 Skyjack platforms, including 46ft and 63ft articulated boom Construction Plant Safety Group lifts. The devices can be ordered on new Skyjack booms or retrofitted to has changed the name it uses to any model manufactured since 2006. Neither system impairs operator refer to ‘anti-crushing’ devices visibility, platform space or access to the work area. and both are said for boom lifts, from ‘Anti- to require minimum maintenance. Entrapment’ to ‘Secondary Guarding’. The change followed a proposal Palfinger acquires three from IPAF technical officer, Chris Palfinger has made three A JSC Solombalsky Wraith which stated: “All aerial work new acquisitions, including logging crane platforms are safe by design and fitted as standard with a device to provide two specialist access primary protection. Additional equipment or devices fitted to reduce the risk companies targeting the of an overhead crushing injury offer secondary protection and should not offshore sector - one in replace good practice by management and the operator.” Austria and one in the Wraith added: “The term anti-entrapment implies that the use of these Middle East - and a Russian devices will prevent entrapment, even though there is no single solution to forestry and recycling prevent overhead crushing incidents from occurring. A reduction in serious loader cane business. incidents will only come about by the combined efforts of operators, site The first acquisition is management, hire companies and manufacturers and this renaming is a step an 85 percent stake in in this direction. Palfinger Systems which manufacturers, sells and rents ‘customised access systems’. The business is a division that Palfinger did not acquire when it took over Palfinger Systems offshore loader crane business in 2012 and was owned by Hubert Palfinger Senior. The company has revenues of€ 1 million, Speedy CEO employs 50 staff, and recently won a €10 million contract in Singapore, which it now needs to deliver. The second is UAE/Qatar rope access specialist Megarme Group, which resigns has 500 employees, mostly abseilers. The company carries out repair and Steve Corcoran the chief executive maintenance work on ships and oil rigs from bases in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and of UK rental company Speedy, Qatar. Revenues are around €15 million. resigned late last year following the The final acquisition is a 60 percent stake in PMGroup discovery of financial irregularities Lifting Machine, a further 20 percent of the equity will be within its International division, Steve Corcoran purchased by Steindl Forsttechnik. The group following the recent take-over of the comprises two Russian crane division by ex-Lavendon director Andy Wright. manufacturers Velmash and The company says that it will re-state its 2012/13 financials and is likely Solombalsky Engineering to take a £3 million hit on pre-tax profits in the current year, which ends in Works, which produce and March. The company also had to negotiate waivers with its lenders having distribute a broad range broken some clauses in its loan agreements. Financial consultants Deloitte of timber and recycling have been appointed to investigate and the international division’s finance cranes and attachments. director suspended. Corcoran said he believed that it was appropriate that he A Velmash loader crane resigned, and will depart following the appointment of a replacement.

December/January 2014 cranes & access 7 news c&a Michelin launches new crane tyre Manitex completes Michelin has launched a new crane tyre - the X-Crane + - an upgraded version of the X-Crane tyre which claims 20 percent longer Valla takeover life, as well as improved comfort and safety. Manitex has now completed the It has also added a new tyre size - 385/95 acquisition of Italian pick&carry R25 - as well as the 525/80 R25 and the The new crane maker Valla for an 445/95 R25 sizes and has an F speed Michelin ‘earn-out’ sum of $1.2 million. X-Crane rating (80kph). + tyre Valla had revenues last year of Michelin claims that the new tyre is safer $7.5 million and an operating thanks to an increased surface contact area, profit of $700,000. Manitex said a new rubber compound in the tread, which that it expects Valla it to make reduces heat build-up in the shoulders and higher an earnings contribution in 2014. resistance steel re-enforcing wires. The company Founded in 1945, Valla was still also says that the more rigid tread compound wears family owned, headed by Antonio more evenly and generates fewer vibrations, and can be Valla, a Californian-based lawyer. A Valla 20E working on re-grooved further extending the tyre’s life. It produces a line of mostly battery a curtain walling job electric cranes with lift capacities ranging from two to 90 tonnes, whith both wheeled or tracked models in the line-up. Best known for its boom trucks, More machines the deal increases the Manitex presence in Italy, where it already owns port handling specialist CVS Ferrari. Manitex also owns Badger Rough Terrain for AFI cranes and Little Giant conventional truck cranes. UK rental company AFI has purchased Valla general manager Mario Riva said: “We believe that Manitex 118 new aerial lifts, taking its fleet International brings a strong distribution network and valued resources investment for 2013 to around £7.5 to the table that will significantly enhance Valla’s market position.” million. The latest order includes 90 Skyjack slab scissor lifts, 15 Genie boom lifts and 13 truck mounted lifts for the Wilson Access fleet acquired earlier this year. The Skyjack order includes 50 SJ3219s, The Skyjack scissor lifts 30 SJ4632s and 10 SJ3226s, while all 15 includes 50 SJ3219s, 30 of the Genie models are Z45/25. The 13 SJ4632s and 10 SJ3226s truck mounts include models from Multitel, CTE, GSR and Palfinger, with working heights ranging from 20 to 45 metres. The new machines will be distributed to AFI’s 19 depots in the UK. Prolift adds Roxu transfers to telehandlers South America Spanish crane rental company Grúas Roxu has opened a new South The first telehandler arrives: (L-R) Richard Davis of Holt JCB, Stewart Green of Prolift, American subsidiary in Costa Rica and shipped 10 cranes and 10 aerial Dave Probert of Holt JCB and Rod Giles of Prolift, with Prolift’s Terry Cole in the cab. work platforms from Spain to start the new venture. UK-based rental company Prolift Access has started adding telescopic handlers to its rental fleet. The first units are the 3.5 tonne/9.5 metre Roxu cranes being loaded for JCB 535-95 purchased though the manufacturer’s dealer Holt JCB. shipment to Costa Rica Prolift managing director Andy Pearson said: “We have been cross-hiring telehandlers for some time now, so we see this as a natural progression for our hire fleet. We have also ordered some 12 metre telehandlers.” New CEO for Sany America Sany America has appointed Mike Rhoda as chief executive, replacing Tim Frank, who resigned in October. Rhoda will have overall responsibility for The equipment, includes some large boom lifts and a 350 tonne All Terrain manufacturing, sales, marketing and support for all crane and joins a number of other cranes already working in the region, Sany products in the United States, Canada, Mexico including a 1,200 tonne Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 employed on a wind farm and Central America. development in northern Costa Rica. 20 more units will follow in the spring Prior to this appointment Rhoda was chief and some operators will relocate with the cranes. The company plans to technology officer with Doosan Infracore transfer at least a third of its fleet which includes 160 mobile cranes, 80 large Construction Equipment and spent over five years loader cranes and more than 700 aerial lifts, topped by a 112 metre Bronto Mike Rhoda with Volvo Construction Equipment. truck mount.

8 cranes & access December/January 2014 Coskun Vinc’s new T540 outside Ruthmann’s sales and service news partner’s Acarlar Makine depot c&a Largest Liebherr tower crane on test Liebherr’s new 1000 EC-B 125 - unveiled at Bauma and currently its largest capacity tower crane - is currently completing an Double first forR uthmann intensive test programme at the company’s Biberach facility. German access rental company G. Winkelmann has ordered the first 63 metre Ruthmann T630 - scheduled for delivery in June - it will be the As well as the dynamic and static largest truck mounted lift in the Winkelemann fleet. overload tests, which included a 158 tonne lift to test the crane’s 125 At the same time Turkish crane and access company Coskun Vinc has taken Each stage in the climbing tonne maximum capcity, Liebherr is process can be completed twice delivery of Ruthmann’s first ‘height performance’ truck mounted lift in Turkey testing a new climbing system as fast as with conventional - a 54 metre T540. Mounted on a three-axle 26 tonne chassis, it features a which at around 45 minutes for each climbing equipment. four section main boom, 16 metre top boom and maximum outreach of 40 climbing stage takes half the time of conventional climbing equipment. The metres. The platform has a 600kg capacity and can be extended to 3.82 crane is aimed at wind turbine erection and power station and plant metres which, the company claims, is currently the largest work platform construction. on a regular truck mounted lift. 25 new JLGs for SAS JLG has received an order for 25 aerial lifts from UK rental company Safe Access Solutions (SAS), worth around £650,000. The order includes both diesel and dual power articulated boom lifts and ES electric slab scissor lifts. The first units have already been delivered. SAS director Peter Whittall said: “Discussions with JLG began some months ago and the The 63 metre T630 truck mounted lift at the company’s partnership we have international sales and service partner meeting in Germany established is paying dividends in terms of customer response to our equipment and Integrated Logistics the backup and SAS managing director Dean Corrie (L) and Peter takes AC1000 support we receive.” Whittall with three of the new JLG lifts Kuwait heavy lift company Integrated Logistics has taken delivery of a Terex AC1000 All Terrain crane. The crane - billed by Terex as a Tanfield Engineering calls 1,200 tonne capacity class machine - has a standard 50 metre boom which can travel on most roads, and can be extended to 100 metres by in the administrator removing the boom nose and adding more telescopic sections. Having transferred Snorkel to Xtreme and Don Ahern, Tanfield has Saleh Al Huwaidi, chief executive of Integrated Logistics, said: “We needed placed its subsidiary Tanfield Engineering into administration, having a high-capacity crane that would offer quick mobilisation, even in congested failed to find a buyer. areas, for single-lift jobs. The crane’s first job will be placing a 200 tonne The business, while not large, posted losses of £732,000 last year and has steel girder in a tandem lift with our Terex AC 500-2.” negative net assets of around £367,000. The administrator said it plans to Christian Kassner, Terex Cranes international sales manager, added: “The run the company while seeking a buyer. markets in which Integrated Logistics operates are highly competitive, and A statement from Tanfield said: “No immediate buyers were identified and the AC1000 gives the company a competitive edge by offering low in order to preserve the group’s cash reserves to run the plc to realise value transportation costs and short rigging times.” The Integrated Logistics fleet from the company’s two principal investments in Snorkel and Smith Electric includes 400 cranes topped by a 1,600 tonne Terex CC8800-1. Vehicles, the company has appointed administrators for this business unit. They are optimistic that they will find a buyer and preserve as many jobs Christian Kassner handing as possible.” over the AC1000 to Saleh Al Huwaidi

December/January 2014 cranes & access 9 news c&a Hiab China JV Loading the hydraulic box with spoil moves ahead

A Chinese built loader crane

Penny’s new hydraulic spoil box Regulatory approvals for Sinotruk (Shandong) Hiab Equipment Company are all cleared and Hiab owner Cargotec is making a €10 million equity UK-based loader crane and tail lift manufacturer Penny Hydraulics has investment in the joint venture during year one. CNHTC’s dealers and service launched a new hydraulic spoil box which eliminates working from the stations throughout China will be used for the distribution, sales and service bed of the vehicle, when loading or unloading loose material. of Hiab’s cranes and hooklifts. The joint venture will also develop CNHTC’s The FV300/2 has been conceived for highways maintenance operations, existing loader cranes and production base for the Chinese market. and offers a maximum capacity of 300kg. The box can easily lift loads from ground level onto the bed of a truck. The unit includes full proportional Thorough examination control for all main functions and thanks to its low weight can be installed on a wide range of commercial vehicles. It can also be removed allowing the of lifting eyes crane to be used with different lifting attachments such as an electric winch The UK’s Construction Plant-hire where down hole handling is required. Association (CPA) has issued a draft Technical Information Note on the thorough examination of lifting eyes, which includes IPAF introduces whether or not lifting eyes are classed as A permanently attached lifting accessories subject to a thorough lifting eye does not require thorough examination Smart PAL Card investigation. The association is seeking The International Powered Access Federation feedback and comment before publishing. (IPAF) has launched its Smart PAL (Powered A key element of the note states: “If Access Licence) Card with an embedded the lifting eyes are able to be removed machine-readable microchip and can be used from the load, for example by to ensure only trained operators use work unscrewing, they are classed as lifting platforms on site. accessories and must be thoroughly Using a Smart PAL Card along with a reader examined at intervals not exceeding The new IPAF Smart PAL device can be used by site managers to ensure Card which has a wireless the six months required by Regulation that only correctly trained operators can operate icon and a microchip 9(3)(i) of the Lifting Operations and equipment and track who has used which embedded within An example of a removable Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 lifting eye machine for how long to prevent fraudulent use. (LOLER). If the lifting eyes are Standard PAL Cards will continue to be issued and accepted on site. permanently attached to the load, for example by welding, they are part of the load and do not require thorough examination. They do however need to be inspected at appropriate intervals under Regulation 6 of the Provision 250 Skyjacks for Modern and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER).” Singapore-based rental company Modern Access & Equipment has taken delivery of 250 Skyjack electric slab scissor lifts. Modern group is based in Hong Kong with branches in Beijing Guangdong and Macau as well as its CE for Cushman scissor lift Singapore operation and offers aerial work platforms, scaffold and fall arrest Cushman has completed CE approval and certification for its Titan buggy equipment for sale and rental. mounted scissor lift which is now available for sale in Europe. The unit was Klein Phua assistant general manager said: “The addition of Skyjack to our shown at last year’s Vertikal Days to gauge market interest before the rental fleet will greatly complement our current rental fleet which consists of company started the CE testing and various aerial brands.” approval process. Cushman launched the unit in the USA just over a year ago, having (L-R) Simon Cracknell developed it in partnership with Compact of Skyjack with Klein Phua Equipment. It combines a standard of Modern Singapore and Cushman industrial truck with the lift Ashley Leontwich of Skyjack stack and platform of a Custom HB-1030E scissor lift, and thanks to the higher chassis, boasts a platform height of just over 11ft, for a working height of almost 5.5 metres.

The Cushman Titan scissor lift

10 cranes & access December/January 2014 news c&a The MEC 60ft scissor 6092RT will be based on Palfinger from MEC the 5492 US aerial lift manufacturer MEC will launch a new 60ft Rough Terrain scissor lift at takes over Conexpo in March, with first shipments due to commence in April. The new lift will be the highest scissor lift currently produced in as chairman Hubert Palfinger North America. Hubert Palfinger has taken over as chairman of Palfinger’s supervisory board from Alexander Doujak With a 20.2 metre working height the MEC who has resigned. Hannes Palfinger - his brother - 6092RT is based on the 5492RT running gear is the new deputy chairman. Hubert Palfinger, 44, has but uses a new scissor stack. sat on the Palfinger board since 2005, and has been It joins the company’s ‘92’ range of 2.34 metre wide scissor lifts and will deputy chairman since 2008. Doujak spent 18 years feature the 7.5 metre Ultra-Deck dual platform extension with platform with Palfinger, serving in a number of roles initially capacity likely to be between 580 and 600kg for CE models. Total weight as a management consultant before joining the is about 9,200kg. supervisory board in 2006 and becoming chairman in 2010. These moves are seen as the final step in the on-going generation change on the supervisory board. Alexander Doujak JCB’s £150m UK Hertz may exit expansion plan JCB has announced plans to invest £150 million - its largest single equipment rental investment ever - to expand its operations in Staffordshire, UK, creating Hertz is considering the sale of its Equipment rental division among other an additional 2,500 jobs by 2018. The move is part of a five-year plan options, following moves by some activist investors and ‘unusual and for Staffordshire and part of a wider global growth strategy. substantial trading’ activity in its shares. The company has retained Bank Plans include a new purpose-built 32,500 square metre plant for JCB Cab of America Merrill Lynch and Barclays to ‘advise on improving shareholder Systems in Beamhurst, near Uttoxeter; expansion of the plant in Rocester returns’ and to help defend itself against an attack though the adoption of a to increase hydraulic cylinder production; a brand-new, 20,000 square Poison Pill strategy to block hostile investors from accumulating more than a metre purpose-built facility in Cheadle for JCB Earthmovers and JCB 10 percent holding in the company. Compact Products operations and a new training facility for JCB staff, to be run in conjunction with universities to support apprentice and New MD for graduate training programmes. Nationwide Platforms Lavendon has appointed Jeremy Fish as managing Youngman issues director of its UK-based Nationwide Platforms operation. The move follows the surprise departure of Mike Potts and other senior managers at the end of Boss X upgrade October. Fish joins the company following six months Jeremy Fish as a consultant to Ainscough Crane Hire, prior to that UK access specialist Youngman has issued an upgrade notice, he spent eight years with generator rental company Aggreko where his most following an incident involving a Boss X3 which continued to raise recent position was managing director of emerging markets. while being used by dry walling specialist BDL on a London site at the end of October. Fortunately the employee avoided The hitting the ceiling and his colleagues original 200 Hiabs to Chausson quickly used the lower controls to bring Youngman the platform down. The machine’s Boss X3 owner Mr Plant Hire found that the Matériaux in France control solenoid contacts had stuck, Hiab has won a contract to supply 200 loader cranes to Toulouse-based causing the motor to continue to run Chausson Matériaux, one of France’s largest independent building and pump oil into the lift cylinder until materials suppliers. the pressure relief valve was opened. Five medium-capacity XS There were no obvious signs of damage models will be delivered or failure to the solenoid. during 2014 and early A Hiab XS544 Although Youngman failed to 2015, all fitted with the replicate the incident, it has HiPro operating system issued a retrofit upgrade kits and Combidrive remote to all owners of older Boss X series control. Chausson machines, adding the later machine’s Matériaux currently two way valve. In the meantime it operates a fleet of 400 recommends users maintain the Hiab cranes, which will batteries in a decent state of charge increase to 550 with as a precaution to avoid spikes in this order. the current to the solenoid.

12 cranes & access December/January 2014 Record profits for Ashtead c&a news Ashtead - owner of Sunbelt and A-Plant - has reported record first half profits of £207.8 million 82 percent up on last year, while revenues increased 23 percent to £849.7 million. Revenues at Sunbelt increased New online access 21 percent to $1.11 billion with operating profits up 40 percent to $345 million. In the UK revenues at A-Plant jumped company 33 percent to £138 million. The company says Alloy tower and low level access that trading remains strong and expects full year equipment manufacturer Instant profits towards the upper end of expectations. UpRight has launched a new on-line sales company, Go Direct Access. Aimed initially at general tradesmen, small contractors and DIY enthusiasts Non-slip crane pads in the UK and Ireland, the company will UK-based composite component manufacturer Nylacast sell standard TT250 towers up to 9.1 has introduced a non-slip ‘Getagrip’ crane outrigger mat. metres, TP100 and 150 podium steps Available as an option on its range of Bigfoot crane outrigger and folding low-level work platforms, mats, a non-slip coating has been applied to the top surface including T200 Towermatic low level to help prevent users or pedestrians from slipping on the hard platforms. Most of the products on TP100 Podium steps cast nylon plastic surface in wet or wintery conditions. offer are built at the company’s new plant in China and prices are said to be highly competitive. As well as Nylacast has introduced a non-slip option for its offering free same-day delivery, customers will receive a short training Bigfoot crane outrigger mats. video of each product highlighting key features and set up techniques. Isoli appoints TH White New owner for Raimondi Isoli has appointed Palfinger crane dealer TH White to distribute its Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud, owner range of recovery vehicles and equipment in the UK. of Saudi Arabian investment company KBW TH White’s loader crane division has workshops in Devizes, Wiltshire Holding, has purchased Italian tower crane and Bradford, Yorkshire. The Isoli manufacturer Raimondi for an undisclosed recovery products will be mounted sum. The company plans to spend around and installed under licence at the $100 million expanding its Italian production company’s Bradford workshops. Isoli truck mounted aerial lifts will and building new facilities in Brazil, Saudi Prince Khaled bin Arabia and India. Alwaleed Al Saud continue to be sold and serviced in An Isoli tilt back truck bed the UK by APS. teamed up with a loader crane

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c&a news News HIGHLIGHTS • Platinum Equity is to sell specialist aerial lift rental •UK rental company Lifterz Work Platforms has •Link Belt has appointed Raul Ureña as company Nesco to Energy Capital Partners. taken delivery of the first of six new delivery trucks. district service representative for South • Willenbrock Fördertechnik has •A sharp slowdown in the equipment market in India America. appointed Ralf Dingeldein is likely to hit profits at UK-basedJ CB. •Australian rental company Skyreach has Raul managing director. •Todd Hildebrand co-owner of taken delivery of a 63ft Skyjack SJ63AJ Ureña Sevcon, the producer of motor Alexander Equipment Rental in boom lift. • Ralf controllers for aerial lifts/fork trucks, has Dingeldein Illinois has died age 46. •Riwal has opened a new depot in Leek, near three new directors. Terex AWP/Genie has appointed Groningen, the Netherlands. • Todd • Spanish rental company Grúas Roxu has shipped 20 Kuehne+Nagel to provide global Hildebrand •Liebherr has won several orders for LHM mobile cranes and aerial lifts to Costa Rica. transportation management services. harbour cranes from the Middle East. • Dutch rental company HWS has taken delivery of a •Isoli has obtained EU Type Approval for its PT225 •Alimak Hek has appointed Keith Hancock as UK 25 metre CMC PLA250 and two 21 metre PLA 210. and PNT205 truck mounted lifts. product manager for mastclimbers. • Boels has ordered 300 JCB machines for £11 million. •Volvo has sold its Volvo Rents North America to •Australian Crane & Machinery’s overhead • Liebherr says it will re-evaluate the future of its plant Platinum Equity for around $1.1 billion. maintenance platform has received an Australasian in Ireland following a strike and court decision. •Meva Formwork Systems has appointed Ashtead’s Railway award. • UK rental company One Call Hire has taken delivery Leada Acrow, as its sole rental supplier. •HWS has taken delivery of three new Holland Lift of 20 Manitou MT625 telehandlers. •Kalmar has received an order for 12 hybrid E-One heavy duty scissor lifts. • Theisen Baumaschinen has appointed 2 rubber-tyred gantry cranes from Kenya Ports •Kalmar has received an order for eight rubber-tyred Martin Hollerith as sales manager. Authority. gantry cranes from the Port of Oslo. • Niftylift has received its two •DAS Otomotiv has expanded its Terex Cranes •The LEEA has launched new training courses Queens Awards. territory to include Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and covering the thorough examination of Turkmenistan. Martin overhead cranes. • Riwal Brazil has opened a second Hollerith location in the Campinas region of •UK-based Smiths Equipment has appointed Martin •Slovakian utility Zapadosloveska energetika has São Paulo. Prater as fleet manager. ordered 10 Isoli PT165 truck mounted lifts. • Dutch rental company HWS has ordered •Terex is to sell its off-highway truck business to •Ashtead has rebranded its A-Plant Acrow seven more Niftylifts. Volvo for $160 million in cash. formwork business as Leada Acrow. UK crawler crane veteran Rod Abbott is Dave Bratton of Briggs Equipment has • The first 27 units ofC ustom Equipment’s new • • Dave Hy-Brid 1230 have been sold to to retire from NRC after 52 years. retired, Mike Winemiller replaces Bratton American Scissor Lift. •UK rental company LTS Powered him as CEO Access has taken delivery of the UK’s Rod • JCB’s chief executive Alan Blake has Abbott •UK-based Ainscough Crane Hire has retired after 25 years with the company. firstJLG Toucan 12E Plus mast boom. opened its 30th depot in Exeter. • Gareth Jones the commercial director •German rental company Sönke Jordt has taken •Danish church renovation specialist Dansk of UK crane rental company Ainscough delivery of a second Tadano Faun ATF180G-5. Kirkekalk has taken delivery of a 32 metre Mike Falcon FS320Z spider lift. Winemiller is to leave. Gareth •Ray Ledger is retiring as chairman of UK based Jones Vermont-based Wood’s CRW has Kimberly Group. •Italian rental company Antoniolli has ordered 21 CTE • acquired the Carlisle, Pa, branch of Link Belt •Mexican mining company Grupo Mexico has taken ZED 20.2 H truck mounted lifts. Mid-Atlantic. delivery of a Terex AC350/6. UK rental company Lifterz has appointed Steve Gerrard as operations manager. • NCSG has acquired Calgary-based, Mullen Rigging •Link Belt Cranes has promoted Pat and Industrial Services. Collins and appointed two new product •HSS Hire has acquired machine cleaning specialist UK-based Smart Platform Rentals has opened its managers. Premiere FCM (TecServ). • fourth location in Dartford, near London. Trojan Battery has appointed Pat • Collins •UK-based Safe Access Solutions (SAS) has opened Hoist manufacturer Geda has appointed Mace Manikandan Dunamis as its distributor a third branch in Shepperton. for India. Industries as a distributor in the UK. •Genie appointed five German and Austrian • Ahern Rentals has acquired Alliance Rental of •Swedish rental company Hyreshuset has taken telehandler distributors at a dealer meeting in Georgia with owners Rusty Kaylor and Russ Stear. delivery of a 22 metre Dino 220XTC spider lift. Germany. Genie has appointed Joe Harper as •Speedy has appointed Deloitte to investigate •UK Utility SSE has issued a Safety Bulletin regarding financial irregularities in its International division. the buckling of a Land Rover mounted boom lift. •territory manager for Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. •UK rental company LTS Powered Access has moved •Austrian rental company HBV Arbeitsbühnen has Eisele has taken delivery of three to new premises and taken more Niftylifts. acquired the firstGenie S-65 Trax boom • T erex All Terrains and a Spierings Joe Suspended platform specialist Spider has lift in Austria. Harper • mobile self-erecting tower crane. promoted Steve Leon as Las Vegas district sales •Edwards Lifting Services in the UK has purchased Ruthmann has appointed Talhu Oy as its distributor representative. its first crane. •for Finland. •Scottish rental company Easy Reach Access has •Canadian crane group NCSG has reportedly hired Indian heavy lift and haulage company CTC has taken purchased a 27.5 metre Ommelift 2750 RXBDJ advisers to explore the sale of the company. spider lift. • delivery of its firstT erex crane. •UK telehandler rental company UK Forks has IPAF has launched its ‘Clunk Click’ harness/lanyard •Riwal has appointed Nick Field as reported a strong first half in terms of profits campaign in Singapore. country manager Germany and expanded and revenues. two of its locations. • Harsco Infrastructure UK has purchased Terry Italian rental company Vento Noleggi has ordered six Nick • Brown 20 metre CTE ZED truck mounted lifts. •John J. ‘Jack’ Shaughnessy, retired Field 19 new DAF CF trucks equipped with PM president of Shaughnessy Crane Service, 28.5 loader cranes. • Liebherr expects 2013 revenues to come in close to passed away. last year’s record levels. •Terry Brown has retired from Illinois based •Link Belt has appointed Sam Meroney North American Rentals his role is taken up • German access company, HK Aerial Work as district manager North Eastern USA/ by John Kendzora. Platforms, has taken delivery of three Oil&Steel •Eastern Canada. John Sam Kendzora •aerial lifts. Meroney Socage has shipped its 1,000th 20 metre DA320 truck mounted aerial lift. See www.vertikal.net news archive for full versions of all these stories

December/January 2014 cranes & access 15 16 cranes & access December/January 2014 OnOn aa c&a loader cranes missionmission UK-based family business Transloader Services is a full loader crane service provider. As well as being one of five Fassi main dealers in the UK it has recently taken on the VDL hook and A selection of four Fassi cranes ranging from the F235XP to the F660XP skiploader franchise as well as for Hallett Silbermann based in Hatfield, Herts offering maintenance, refurbishment trying to get this information then on a new non-Fassi crane owned and attachments for all makes of loader cranes. there are definitely others around by one of its customers as it did not Youngest family member Carly Barnard is responsible the UK doing exactly the same thing. have all the relevant manufacturer for sales and training and also sits on the board of the Why don’t we all pool our resources access codes and diagnostics loader crane association ALLMI, with a clear focus – after all isn’t that a major benefit equipment. To finish the job a of being a member of ALLMI?” manufacturer approved engineer on improving the sector. Barnard believes that the days of for that brand had to be called The ALLMI After Sales restricting the availability of such in however this involved up to a Working Group “As part of ALLMI’s Industry Software Collaboration project, we looked at the issue of communication, as well as sharing technical information and the benefits this brings to Carly manufacturers, service providers Barnard and end users and this continues to be a very important subject,” Barnard represents service said Barnard. “For this reason, the providers on the ALLMI board, soon to be established ALLMI After a category of membership which Sales Working Group will be looking forms a significant part of the at this, and many other important Association. “I would like ALLMI issues, and I look forward to taking to further strengthen its role as up my role as the Group’s Chair a conduit for discussions between and working with members to pool manufacturers, manufacturers’ our knowledge and experience, the service controllers and the results of which will benefit the Transloader Services offers independent service providers Association, as well as the wider maintenance and refurbishment for such as ourselves,” she said. lorry loader industry.” all makes of loader cranes “I believe that communication between these parties could be Being part of the Fassi network information are gone and that we three day wait. Even when the improved and would like to play Transloader has direct access to all need to share information to hold manufacturer admitted it would like a key part in all the technical information, and onto customers. more engineers in the area covered facilitating a its engineers get manufacturer “I don’t want Fassi for example to by Transloader it could not give the positive, training, but with customers that be incorrectly seen as a difficult information to speed up the process constructive run mixed fleets it doesn’t get the product to support. If I sell a product and complete the work. approach to same help and information from and it ends up in Scotland I need “However many service vans a the issue. the other manufacturers, making it several local service agents in the manufacturer has on the road, it is virtually impossible to back-up every area and would be happy to supply impossible to look after all of their product as well as it would like. as much assistance as we possibly loader cranes all of the time,” said “I would pay for my engineers to can. There will always be a cut-off Barnard. “The feedback I get from attend factory training courses point where the main dealer has other service agents is that they put on by other manufacturers to become involved but it is about are willing to share the information if they were able to do so. How letting and aiding the independent however the manufacturers are much information you can get engineers on site respond efficiently more reluctant. There will be a Fassi F385 often depends on your working and effectively.” meeting at the end of February to relationship with each manufacturer The company says that several see how to proceed. It is still in the - and some are better than others. times over the past few months it very early stages at the moment.” But if I as Transloader Services am has been unable to complete a job

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Roland van der Waerden (L) VDL’s export sales manager with Robert Pearce of Pearce Recycling in front of a VDL hook and skiploader

A blooming business mechanics, two sales people and expand further. The new facility is on an experienced salesman with As well as being the Fassi dealer four fabricators. now the base for sales, installations contacts in the sector.” Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, “Whilst we still offer 24/7 cover, and training which has now become New Fassi cranes a significant part of the business. Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and breakdown repairs were a lot Barnard says that a major Northamptonshire - and more more common in those days so “The move to the new premises development for Fassi dealers recently it has expanded into rapid response time was critical,” has allowed me to focus fully on has been the launch of the 110B the Coventry and Reading areas she said. “Today improvements in my areas of the business - sales, and 120B, making them more - Transloader Services offers product reliability, electronics and marketing and training. We now competitive for the builders second-hand and refurbished - modern communications mean that have two full time trainers and we merchant market. most problems can be sorted to the plan to almost quadruple this over Atlas, Hiab, Fassi, Palfinger and “We have seen a real uptake with point of getting the crane folded the next few years. In terms of PM loader cranes as well as these cranes thanks largely to the away and into the service yard by body and coachwork services. numbers this means going from 350 FSC stability monitoring system taking the operator through certain Along with new and refurbished to over 1,200 people trained a year.” which is very easy to use,” said procedures over the phone.” attachments including brick clamps, Hook and skip loaders Barnard. “There is an argument that grab buckets, pallet forks, augers When Transloader began selling and Transloader has also taken on the the more you take control away etc from manufacturers such as installing cranes it soon realised that UK distribution of the Dutch hook from the operator, the less mindful Kinshofer, Fielden, Entecon and it needed someone to focus on this and skip-loader company VDL. We they are of what they are doing Ritespec. area, so Carly joined in 2006. are committed to increasing sales as they leave it to the machine, The company was founded in “I never really saw myself as of the Fassi range to a variety of but that is where training comes 1984 by Carly’s father Barry - an working in the company and applications. At the same time we in. I think initially, many in the see huge potential in the waste and A Fassi F800 mounted recycling sector for TJ Robins which is dominated by Hyva and Boughton in the UK, and I think there is room for another. I would estimate this market at between 1,500 to 2,000 units a year. The time to mount this equipment is about the same Transloader now has two full time trainers and hopes to almost quadruple as a ten metre/tonne the numbers of people trained at its new new premises in Luton crane (a week to 10 days) which would HGV mechanic by trade. In the followed a PR route in London after be a solid addition early days he was employed as graduating from university,” she to our current a mobile engineer on a franchise says. “As time went on the thought business. There are basis by Truck Crane Services but of hands on involvement in shaping around 500 VDL then set up his own operation at the family business became more units in the UK and the current repair yard which was appealing. Now I can’t image doing although they have an agricultural site connected to anything else.” a good reputation for the family home on the outskirts of Adding a dedicated facility quality VDL needed Harpenden between junctions 9 and Until November all company a company with 10 of the M1 motorway. His son operations were based at the strong sales and after Lee joined as a second engineer in original yard and offices, however sales ability to take 1993. As with many family firms, installations were eating into space the brand forward. Barry’s wife ran the office and intended for servicing and repairs. We will initially took on more administrative duties To solve the problem Transloader concentrate on our as the workload increased. Now has added a sizeable new facility Fassi territory and there are 25 employees including in Luton, with both offices, training then expand and we the four family directors, eight rooms and workshops, allowing it to have already taken

18 cranes & access December/January 2014 industry were opposed to stability will be fewer bespoke builds in monitoring, concerned it was just the future, as well as less choice. c&a loader cranes another piece of legislation that Type approval is an additional restricts the crane’s lift capacity cost, involves extra paperwork and rather than being a real safety reduces the choice for customers improvement. But in practical terms without any major benefits to the it allows you to do everything you production processes of a company did before IF what you were doing such as ours, as we are already was safe. We now also include The workshop area in the building to the standards. It is a new Luton premises outrigger mats in every quote - they shame that so much effort has to go are no longer optional as they are into this when there are other areas, essential.” regarding quality and safety which “There is a trend towards larger I believe requires more of Vosa’s capacity loader cranes,” she said, limited resources.” “thanks to improvements in the Best year since 2008 performance to weight ratio. The “2013 has been our best since 2008, 60 tonne metre Fassi 660 is now in spite of our initial concern that the its most popular crane and fairly arrival of Euro 6 trucks would create standard for cabin suppliers and an unnatural spike and then slow machinery movers, where 45 down towards the end of the year,” tonners used to be the norm.” she said, “but every Fassi dealer in Another Transloader/Fassi customer Type approval the UK has met or exceeded fourth “At the moment it is not an issue as quarter targets making it around 500 we only mount on chassis over 3.5 Fassi units sold in the UK this year. tonnes, but that changes in October There are also signs of economic 2014. For a while now I have been recovery in the loader sector with involved with ‘national small series’ customers investing, not just in fleet type approvals and we have been replacement, but also expanding. awarded conformity of production However obtaining chassis can after a VCA audit of our processes be a problem, especially for lower and procedures. Every time a volume ‘non-core’ models.” In the manufacturer makes a change to the global scheme of things the UK is base vehicle, no matter how minor, now within the top five European I have to change all my paperwork, markets for Fassi and we want to Hands-on training the end result of this is that there build on that success.

December/January 2014 cranes & access 19 loader cranes c&a HMF UK flying high Danish loader crane subsidiary HMF UK has enjoyed good growth over the past three years - a combination of an improving market and changes within the company. Mark Darwin spoke to

managing director Ian Roberts about HMF is currently doing very well in the UK’s traditionally the factors behind the expansion. Ian Roberts strongest market - the builders merchants

A combination of factors has system introduced in 1998 and In 2009/2010 HMF UK won the 2012, helped by Roberts’ personal boosted loader crane sales in the commercially available since 2000. Saint-Gobain builders merchants experience - he previously worked UK this year to a total of around Initially people were cautious about contract and it was at this point, supplying vehicles in the builders 2,000 units (ALLMI statistics it because it was the only one that said Roberts, when everyone merchants sector - and so was based on units sold). While this is didn’t monitor the outrigger legs, started to sit up and take notice of able to identify the problems, still lower than the record 2,400 but recorded the tilting of the truck the company and the EVS system. areas of damage and costs etc. units it compares very favourably and people are wary of anything Saint-Gobain has a policy of HMF was then able to design a to the rest of Europe, many different. The system also allows changing suppliers for its 1,100 unit unit with features specifically for parts of which are still seeing a better programming of deliveries, loader crane fleet every three years Travis Perkins, launching the 1430L downward trend. HMF has also for example it makes sense to begin (about 300 units at a time). This Builders Merchant crane, designed seen recent improvements in with any deliveries to confined areas, results in a varied fleet, which at to reduce maintenance and damage Germany, France and Norway. such as narrow streets, as the whole the end of 2013 included over 100 costs. “HMF UK is the golden child of the weight of the loaded truck is taken Palfinger, 400 Atlas, 300 HMF and “The hydraulic lines on the new group at the moment with solid, into account and the more weight on the remainder Hiab. HMF will supply crane are enclosed within the growing sales,” says Roberts. “The the bed the less the vehicle tilts and another 140 units in 2014 making it boom, reducing damage and its new legislation in 2010 made a big therefore the greater the capacity or the largest provider. design is modular allowing parts to impact for HMF, with customers the narrower the footprint is required “This was a major turning point be slid in and out easily. All major appreciating our EVS safety to maintain stability.” for us as there was no reason why components can be changed in 30 HMF should have been as small in minutes which is a big bonus. So HMF has had a successful year with work platform the UK as we had been historically.” many people do not appreciate the applications. Houseman International Transport took the he says. “In June/July 2012 there damage the sun (UV light) can do first two 50 tonne metre versions was a two year extension on the to rubber hoses but because they Saint-Gobain contract which was are enclosed they do not suffer, he a bonus giving us a total of five says.” years supplying loaders which is “We came up with one size crane a big statement to the rest of the which could fit three sizes of market. Extending the contract can vehicles because of EVS and won only happen once and we will all the contract for all Travis vehicles retender in 2014.” above 18 tonnes GVW. Other The company also won the Travis benefits include reduced spare Perkins tender for vehicles over parts, less training and increased 18 tonnes GVW in November buying power having just the one

20 cranes & access December/January 2014 A HMF 2420 with K T Transport c&a loader cranes

B5 classification, very strong and and Poland and now in the UK with highest possible cycle ratio” - which Houseman International Transport it hopes will regain market share. In taking the first two 50 tonne metre other parts of Europe the ‘muck- versions with HMF receiving further away’ sector tends to be dominated orders from other end users all by owner drivers, who prefer larger ready.” cranes equipped with a number of “All in all we have had a fantastic attachments, to improve versatility, last three years with nearly while the UK tends to use dedicated 20 percent growth each year, cranes. expanding from nine to 30 product. By December 2012 we market sector is split between “To continue our growth we need employees, while revenues are up had the two biggest fleets in the ‘muck-away’ and builders to get that sector back,” says to £8.5 million. Because HMF sells builder merchants sector, however merchants,” says Roberts. “Figures Roberts. “One of the areas most a lot of product into the American it is a very competitive market and are distorted because builders helped by EVS is large cranes. market under the IMT brand - long Palfinger, Hiab and Atlas are all merchants will buy a proportion of Historically HMF was weak above boom and T boom cranes - that is chasing hard, but the EVS system hook cranes for lifting timber etc 32 tonne/metres in the UK because the company’s largest distributor is still one of our big advantages which are reported separately. I it concentrated on its core business worldwide, but the UK is the leading thanks to almost 15 years real lift would say about 40 percent (400 of muck-away loaders but last European daughter company at the experience.” units) of all units are delivered to year we sold 29 units from 40 to moment.” “Because we had the two major builders merchants – and nearly all 85 tonne/metres - this is an builders merchants contracts and of them include remote controls, important market and needed A HMF 8520 specific ready-made solutions we which is the way forward.” a change of direction supplying decided to push even more into Muck-away is another sizeable professional customers and that sector, offering front mount, sector – predominantly lever operators who really look after rear mount, and cranes for 15, 18, operated. HMF used to be very their cranes. We have also had 26 or even 32 tonnes, targeting successful in this sector but the a very successful year with lease and hire companies, offering more modern, faster and durable a work platform application. packages with finance houses etc to Palfinger Epsilon products have It complies fully with EN280 the smaller customers with a more become dominant, although HMF with a man basket application traditional procurement route.” has a new product aimed at the across the range and this has “Traditionally the strongest UK UK to be launched in 2014 – “a been very popular in Norway

December/January 2014 cranes & access 21 loader cranes c&a Unusual geometry Fassi crane Loader crane product round-up In November Fassi launched a new 2013 saw a number of significant new loader crane products from the 15 tonne/metre loader crane - the major manufacturers. Here is a very brief round-up. F165AZ - developed with an eye on the French public works market. It features a built-in foldable control station and Palfinger’s largest unusual over centre geometry, both intended to free up Palfinger unveiled its largest knuckle boom crane to date early in the year, space on the truck bed, the PK 200002 L SH, which it claims can compete in terms of lifting ability especially handy for with a 60 tonne All Terrain crane. The new crane has a nine section polygon applications loading/ shaped boom and when combined with its eight section PJ 300 L jib, offers unloading loose material a maximum tip height of nearly 50 metres at which it is said to lift around with a clamshell grab. The boom 600kg. The unit is also equipped as standard to take a fully EN280 compliant has two telescopic sections which use a integrated single cylinder and extension chain, saving work platform space for hoses to be routed internally. The folded crane takes up with a Maximum reach is eight metres. working height less space on the vehicle. of over 50 Fassi has also upgraded its F110B and F120B metres. Load offering several advantages including a 20 percent reduction in weight moment is in over the F110A.0, single (on the F110B.1) or double (F110B.2) linkage to the region of maximise lifting performance through the lifting arc, Pro link system on outer 200 tonne/ boom of the F110B.2, a shorter outer boom for improved lifting height under metres. The hook, more compact dimensions and hydraulic or manual extendable crane has a outrigger options. There is also the option of the new manually tiltable six point outrigger system (OET) with gas spring for ease of operation. fully flexible outrigger with The new F120B a maximum Maximum reach for width of 10.4 the new crane is around 50 metres with the jib able to metres. articulate above horizontal Three from PM PM launched three new loader crane models - the 30.5SP, 40.5SP and 150SP. With a maximum load moment of 108 tonne/metres, the 150SP’s is available with up to an 11 section boom and seven section jib which offers 25 degrees of above horizontal articulation. With this combination maximum tip height is 38.6 metres and maximum radius 35 metres, at which it can handle 830kg. The maximum lift capacity with shorter boom and no jib is 24.5 tonnes at 4.3 metres radius. The crane also incorporates a fully integrated base for easy installation. The 30.5SP has a load moment of 25 tonne/metres, a maximum hook height of 30.3 metres and an outreach of 26.8 metres. While the 34.4 Four mid-sized Hiabs tonne/metre 40.5SP offers a 26 metre tip height and maximum radius Hiab introduced four new mid-sized loader crane models, the X-CLX of 22.2 metres the crane features an above horizontal articulation of 15 178, the X-DUO 178, the X-HIDUO 188 and the X-HIPRO 192. The new degrees on the main boom and 20 degrees on the jib. range replaces the existing XS166 which is widely used by builders merchants and general purpose, delivery duties. The cranes have load The new PM 150SP moments of up to 18.5 tonne/metres and can handle over 4.8 tonnes at a height of 19.5 metres and a radius of six metres. Designed with increased durability, performance and user friendliness in mind, they are also far easier to mount, and have an improved load chart for extension, lift capacity and jibs. The new boom extension system is nearly twice as fast. The main control valve, the size of the tubing, the couplings and the pressure relief valves are all balanced, timed and optimised to eliminate vibration and The new excessive heat, while Hiab X-CLX 178 saving fuel. loader crane

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c&a 2013 rental rate survey AllAll positivepositive onon rentalrental

ratesOratesur annual survey of rental rates in the UK and Ireland has detected the most positive mood since Crane rates 2007, with all three sectors - cranes, powered Crane hire rate trends - all types access and telehandlers - all reporting more stability, Crane hire rates over the Crane hire rates during the improvements and a positive view for 2014. The net past 12 months have: next 12 months will: 0% 0% result is that the majority of rental companies are decrease decrease currently planning to increase their fleets in the year 35% (38%) 56% (8%) (23%) (30%) ahead to keep pace with the upward trend in demand. 65% 44% This year we have added a few (39%) (62%) new features including a more factual look at utilisation and (numbers in brackets returns, while asking respondents - 2012 results) to suggest an ideal rate for each It seems that the year has turned out quite a bit better than most anticipated product sector. This has also been this time last year, and that over half of companies believe that rates will our most successful survey for at rise in the year ahead. least six years. Crane fleet size Crane fleet size over the Crane fleet size over the past 12 months have: next 12 months will: 5% 5% (20%) (30%)

34% 26% 61% (35%) 69% (40%) (45%) (30%)

(numbers in brackets - 2012 results) While the year turned out better than forecast it is clear that our respondents were reasonably close when they predicted fleet additions last year, let’s hope that they are as accurate for 2014.

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December/January 2014 cranes & access 25 2013 rental rate survey c&a Crane rental rates Daily rates for mobile cranes up down same new category Crane size Average Lowest Highest Ideal < 30t £352 £290 £431 £402 30-45t £421 £380 £498 £484 50-65t £533 £450 £650 £616 70-85t £748 £650 £850 £885 95-125t £1,038 £900 £1,400 £1,300 135-200t £1,952 £1,500 £2,600 £2,394 210-350t £3,065 £2,000 £4,800 £3,710 350-600t £4,200 £2,900 £5,500 £4,750 Mobile Tower (< 6 axles) £1,208 £850 £1,700 £1,520 Mobile Tower (> 6 axles) £1,900 £1,500 £2,400 £2,400

Weekly rates for crawler cranes Crane size Average Lowest Highest Ideal 50t £1,433 £950 £1,750 £1,750 Utilisation and percentage 100t £2,283 £1,600 £2,800 £2,888 of initial cost 250t £3,600 £2,700 £4,500 £4,825 Mobile cranes 500t £8,820 £8,500 £9,200 £9,900 > 500t £18,000 £17,500 £18,500 £25,000 Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost Weekly rates for tower cranes < 30t 72% 51% 92% 0.8% 30-45t 75% 57% 95% 0.7% Crane size Average Lowest Highest Ideal 50-65t 78% 69% 95% 0.8% Luffers £950 £800 £1,100 £1,350 70-85t 79% 60% 95% 0.7% Flat Tops/Saddle Jibs £510 £500 £800 £750 95-125t 80% 55% 96% 1.1% Self Erectors £621 £400 £1,100 £800 135-200t 75% 55% 90% 0.9% 210-350t 79% 75% 84% 0.9% Weekly rates of other cranes 350-600t 74% 72% 75% 0.9% Crane size Average Lowest Highest Ideal Mobile Tower (< 6 axles) 84% 75% 90% 0.8% Pick&Carry £400 £250 £1,700 £940 Mobile Tower (> 6 axles) 75% 75% 75% 0.8% Spider cranes £762 £550 £2,500 £1,262 Crawler cranes Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost 50t 52% 20% 75% 0.4% 100t 67% 50% 90% 0.4% 250t 57% 0% 100% 0.5% 500t 95% 95% 95% no data > 500t 90% 95% 95% no data Tower cranes Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost Luffers 88% 75% 100% 0.5% Flat Tops/Saddle Jibs 62% 45% 87% 0.6% Mobile Self Erectors 79% 65% 100% 0.7% Other cranes Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost Pick & Carry 67% 50% 80% no data Spider cranes 38% 20% 75% 1.1%

26 cranes & access December/January 2014 c&a 2013 rental rate survey Would you Do you employ recommend the any female crane crane hire industry operators? to your children? 3% (2%)

52% 48% (33%) (67%) What percentage of your jobs are 97% (98%) contract lifts?

33% (numbers in (numbers in 67% (30%) brackets - brackets - (70%) Yes No 2012 results) Yes No 2012 results) As you might expect, with a more No real change here. positive experience and outlook this year, the pendulum has swung back in favour of yes.

Contract lift Pure crane hire Should cranes be subject to MOT’s? (numbers in brackets - 2012 results) A slight shift towards Contract Lifts 38% Yes No compared to a year ago with a third (30%) (numbers in brackets - 2012 results) of all lifts now carried out under 62% these terms. (70%) Interestingly now that this topic has moved out of the headlines opinion has started to Who does your Thorough Examinations? swing back against testing, although a large majority are still in favour of such a move. 28% (33%) Third party In house Additional questions for 2013 72% (numbers in brackets - 2012 results) (67%) What percentage of your operators are? This year the results are closer to 2011 4% with the vast majority of companies claiming third party inspections. Employed Freelanced 96% Average fleet age: Average Lowest Highest 6.5 3 15

Respondent’s comments “I really appreciate the effort “I expect increased ‘gazzumping’ as but really don’t see the point of utilisation continues to improve, with this survey, everyone lies and I the poorest rate customers being see the real picture out there.” dumped at the last minute!”

“I think this survey is more important than “Unless rental any other year. We companies need a barometer start increasing as to where we are, the rates, the and where we are manufacturers going to take our are going to businesses. The have a very lean industry is changing time.” subtly and offers real opportunities.”

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Powered Access c&a 2013 rental rate survey rates Reduced Stayed the same Increased Rate trends

Access rates over the Access rates during the past 12 months have: next 12 months will: 0% 10% decrease (0%) (3%) 45% 60% 40% (38%) 45% (64%) (33%) (62%)

(numbers in brackets - 2012 results) A very encouraging result, and particularly encouraging as we had a significantly higher response this year with rates generally holding steady Push around scissor lifts through most of 2013 and a promising upward trend that most think will Platform Height Average Lowest Highest Ideal translate into increases during 2014. Push Arounds £49 £35 £65 £73 Fleet trends Portable £113 £55 £180 £150 Fleet size over the Fleet size over the Diesel/bi-energy scissor lifts past 12 months have: next 12 months will: 0% 0% Platform Height Average Lowest Highest Ideal decrease 10% decrease 10% 8m (26ft) £143 £120 £175 £185 (11%) (14%) (14%) (8%) 9-10m (30-33ft) £179 £130 £250 £211 90% 90% 11-12m (36-42ft) £190 £140 £260 £253 (78%) (75%) 13-17m (43-56ft) £225 £179 £420 £355 17-22m £341 £190 £680 £450 (numbers in brackets > 22 metres £669 £625 £750 £831 - 2012 results)

Almost all of our respondents claim to have increased their fleets this year Electric self-propelled booms exactly as they predicted in last year’s survey, and the trend looks like it will Platform Height Average Lowest Highest Ideal continue through 2014. < 11m (36ft) £216 £220 £250 £287 10-12m (32-40ft) £227 £200 £290 £281 > 13m (45ft plus) £249 £179 £340 £332

Mast booms Platform Height Average Lowest Highest Ideal 8m £184 £115 £220 £240 10m £213 £170 £256 £260

Rough Terrain articulated booms Platform Height Average Lowest Highest Ideal 12-14m (39-45ft) £226 £170 £265 £288 Weekly rental rates 15-16m (49/52ft) £241 £194 £325 £295 by general category up down same new category 17-19m (56-62ft) £293 £280 £500 £376 Electric self-propelled scissor lifts 20-23m (60-70ft) £365 £300 £628 £439 Platform Height Average Lowest Highest Ideal 24-26m (80-85ft) £532 £495 £630 £636 < 5m £81 £60 £120 £117 > 27m £1,050 £1,000 £1,150 £1,375 6m (19/20ft) £98 £80 £140 £136 8 m (26ft) £117 £80 £180 £150 Straight telescopic booms 9-10m (30-33ft) £135 £95 £200 £170 Platform Height Average Lowest Highest Ideal 11-12m (36-39ft) £179 £120 £220 £230 < 17m (40-46ft) £211 £190 £240 £306 13-17m (42-55ft) £235 £179 £370 £309 20-23m (60-70ft) £349 £280 £470 £421 17-22m £447 £364 £550 £598 24-26m (80-85ft) £532 £495 £650 £615 > 22m £700 £650 £750 £800 > 27m £1,080 £950 £1,250 £1,340

December/January 2014 cranes & access 29 2013 rental rate survey c&a Utilisation and Returns Electric self-propelled scissor lifts Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost < 5m 65% 50% 80% 1.4% 6m (19/20ft) 74% 57% 85% 1.6% 8m (26ft) 71% 50% 85% 1.4% 9-10m (30-33ft) 72% 50% 80% 1.3% 11-12m (36-39ft) 74% 46% 90% 1.1% 13-17m (42-55ft) 65% 50% 80% 1.0% 17-22m 75% 55% 90% 0.9% > 22m 61% 60% 65% 1.0% Weekly rental rates by Push around scissor lifts general category - continued up down same new category Type Utilisation Average rate as Trailer lifts Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost Platform Height Average Lowest Highest Ideal Push Arounds 72% 50% 85% 1.7% 12-13m (30-38ft) £213 £180 £262 £263 Portable 70% 50% 86% 1.9% 17m (50ft) £476 £375 £550 £400 Diesel bi-energy scissor lifts > 20m £850 £800 £900 £900 Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost Spider lifts 8m (26ft) 78% 59% 90% 0.8% Platform Height Average Lowest Highest Ideal 9-10m (30-33ft) 77% 58% 85% 0.8% < 15m £410 £200 £650 £496 11-12m (36-42ft) 69% 68% 85% 0.7% 16-20m £586 £340 £900 £709 13-17m (43-56ft) 70% 50% 80% 0.6% 20-25m £958 £750 £1,800 £1,141 17-22m 65% 48% 76% 0.7% 26-35m £1,600 £1,800 £2,200 £2,000 > 22m 68% 45% 85% 0.8% > 35m £2,610 £2,500 £2,750 £2,600 Electric self-propelled booms

Vehicle mounted lifts Van mounts - Weekly rates Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost Platform Height Average Lowest Highest Ideal < 11m 75% 70% 80% 1.0% < 13m £319 £300 £345 £374 10-12.5m (32-40ft) 61% 50% 85% 1.0% 13-17m £347 £325 £360 £403 > 13m (45ft+) 73% 60% 85% 0.7% > 17m £664 £600 £703 £698 Mast booms Vehicle mounted lifts Truck mounted lifts - Daily rates Type Utilisation Average rate as Platform Height Average Lowest Highest Ideal Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost 3.5 tonne £270 £200 £400 £290 8m 54% 35% 72% 1.3% 7.5 tonne £344 £295 £462 £405 10m 61% 16% 85% 1.1% 36-45m £587 £380 £775 £1,221 46-70m £1,025 £550 £1,325 £1,135 RT articulated booms > 70m £1,799 £1,500 £1,900 £1,950 Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost The average rates once again do conflict in some areas with the overall 12-14m (39-45ft) 75% 63% 85% 0.9% feeling that respondents reported, but some of this might be down to the substantial increase in the number of respondents. One area that is interesting 15-16m (49/52ft) 76% 60% 85% 0.7% is Rough Terrain articulated booms, where some companies are offering 17-19m (56-62ft) 64% 60% 85% 0.6% highly specified new hybrid machines and achieving better rates than for their 20-23m (60-70ft) 71% 61% 90% 0.6% standard often older models. There is justification to split this category next 24-26m (80-85ft) 73% 55% 85% 0.6% year. This year we also asked respondents to quote their ideal rate for each type of machine and we have published the average of those inputs. > 27m 76% 62% 95% 1.1% Straight telescopic booms Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost < 17m (40-46ft) 65% 42% 85% 0.7% 20-23m (60-70ft) 63% 39% 86% 0.7% 24-26m (80-85ft) 70% 45% 85% 0.7% > 27 metres 74% 67% 85% 1.1%

30 cranes & access December/January 2014 c&a 2013 rental rate survey Would you Who does the six recommend the monthly LOLER access industry to inspections on your your children? machines?

24% 33% (25%) (29%) 67% 76% (71%) (75%)

(numbers in (numbers in brackets - brackets - Yes No 2012 results) Third party In house 2012 results) This year saw a slightly negative The trend towards third party move, which is surprising given inspections seem to have stalled for the overall positivity of this year’s the moment. survey. Possibly more due to the higher number of respondents. Average fleet age: Average Lowest Highest 4 years 2 years 7 years

Trailer lifts Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost 12-13m (30-38ft) 50% 35% 65% 1.7% 17m (50ft) 50% 45% 60% 3.1% > 20m 55% 50% 60% no data Spider lifts Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost < 15m 52% 35% 80% 2.0% 16-20m 59% 50% 80% 1.6% 20-25m 50% 45% 60% 1.2% 26-35m 50% 45% 55% 1.1% > 35m 54% 50% 65% no data Van mounts - Weekly rates Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost < 13m 71% 64% 75% 1.9% 13-17m 62% 60% 65% no data < 17m 69% 60% 75% no data Truck mounted lifts - Daily rates Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost 3.5 tonne 73% 65% 78% 2.7% 7.5 tonne 84% 80% 90% 3.3% 36-45m 63% 48% 75% 0.9% 46-70m 79% 74% 98% 1.0% > 70m 67% 65% 75% 0.8%

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Telescopic handler rental rates

Rate trends Reduced Stayed the same Increased In the past 12 months In the next 12 months rental rates have: rental rates will: 0% decrease 10% 30% (38%) (19 %) Respondent’s comments (60%) 30% 60% 70% (21%) (60%) “Usual story; Nationals talk it up to the press, but the dinosaurs still sell (40%) all the extra added benefits for next to nothing. Lip service to you guys, the smaller local suppliers are the ones pushing the industry to new (numbers in brackets markets. Nationals have no real innovative leadership.” - 2012 results) “People are more willing to “I think 2013 started off as a crazy year For the third year running telehandler input has been generally positive with pay a higher rate if they get with big rate crashes perhaps because most rates continuing to increase as demand recovers. However it looks as quality machines and really of post Olympics surplus but certainly though companies that run a few telehandlers ‘on the side’ are finding the good service.” because of the weather conditions being business a bit of a challenge as their main specialism picks up. colder and wetter for longer. Common “The serious challenge will be sense started to emerge in Q3 and rates what will the industry do with again recovered in Q4. Will the industry Fleet size its extra costs for secondary destroy its profits again in 2014?” In the past 12 months In the next 12 months guarding systems? Will it pass fleet sizes have: fleet sizes will: them on or absorb them?” “Everyone is looking at costs and trying 0% to push them down, but the cost of 10% decrease 10% “Customers are now realistic having a machine down on site and (20%) (0%) 10% (0%) (25%) about having to pay for decent standing a few men around while equipment and more aware of something is done about it is a much 90% 80% the costs that they could incur bigger cost than paying £20 to £30 more (80%) (75%) with unreliable machines.” for a decent bit of kit and good service.” (numbers in brackets “Powered access rates are still not where they should be, but are starting - 2012 results) to improve in this last quarter. Rates are the same now for a 45ft artic diesel Most respondents expanded their fleets this year and better still, most are boom, as they were in 2005. Smaller businesses like ours are generally planning to continue to do so in 2014. All good news for manufacturers. governed by the market leaders on rates, and we are still seeing examples of very cheap quotes from these large national suppliers.” “The powered access market is definitely on the up (pardon the pun) and at present demand is out weighing supply, everyone is busy and I truly believe the smaller independent businesses like ours, are doing very well due to quicker response times, Access Link/Access Alliance partnerships, younger fleet and better rapport with the customer Vs the large nationals. 2014 is a year I believe, most businesses in plant hire will be significantly profitable.”

“We are new and have set our rates to be reasonably competitive, but have not had to drop rates at all, once we explain that they will have new high specification equipment and top level personal support.”

32 cranes & access December/January 2014 Weekly rates for telehandlers c&a 2013 rental rate survey up down same new Fixed frame category Lift Height Average Lowest Highest Ideal < 5m £223 £190 £285 £252 5-7m £268 £190 £295 £314 8-10m £287 £210 £325 £337 11-13m £328 £230 £350 £392 14-15m £357 £240 £380 £425 16-18m £452 £345 £485 £527 Who does your LOLER 360 degree 40% Thorough Examinations? (28%) 60% Lift Height Average Lowest Highest Ideal (72%) < 20m £703 £650 £800 £850 (numbers in brackets - 20-25m £955 £875 £1,100 £1,133 Third party In house 2012 results) >25m £1,348 £1,225 £1,440 £1,538 Average fleet age: Average Lowest Highest Utilisation and return 2.8 1 8 on investment Fixed frame Percentage of machines rented with a work platform attachment Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost Type Average Lowest Highest < 5m 86% 80% 95% 0.8% Fixed frame 6% 0% 10% 5-7m 87% 73% 95% 0.8% 360 degree 16% 0% 40% 8-10m 86% 80% 100% 0.8% While the response for fixed frame units remained at a similar level to previous 11-13m 85% 77% 95% 0.7% years, the percentage given for 360 degree machines plummeted from an 14-15m 87% 78% 100% 0.7% average of 34 percent last year to just 13 percent this year. While this might reflect a change in the market, the size of the fall is probably more down to 16-18m 80% 59% 98% 0.8% the fact that we have a larger and wider range of respondents this year. 360 degree Type Utilisation Average rate as Average Lowest Highest % of initial cost < 20m 75% 65% 80% 1.10% 20-25m 77% 70% 80% 1.40% > 25m 88% 75% 100% 1.60%

This year we asked respondents to provide their average utilisation for each of the main categories. The results were consistently high with specific models, such as compacts and mid-range models outperforming the larger units. We also asked respondents to provide the rate of return in terms of the Respondent’s comments weekly rate as a percentage of the machines purchase price, with most fixed frame machines falling into the 0.7 to 0.8 percent range - giving a payback, “We specialise and always “Lots of work starting in the North of when taking the average utilisation into consideration, of just over three have young machines with England and Scotland, hopefully this years -excluding all other costs of course, such as repair, maintenance, bad a full spec in the yard ready will result in a shortage of plant forcing debts and most important of all - overhead. 360 degree telehandlers generally to go. With rates improving rates upwards.” had a higher return in terms of rate, offset by lower utilisation. and a larger fleet, 2014 looks promising.” “We are doing well especially with the small compacts and have a few rotos that “It is now time all hire always get a really good rate, but you companies looked to the have to work at it to keep them busy. We future and increase rates will probably add a few more in the new as there is plenty of work year.” available for everyone.” “Another good year and looking positive as we head towards 2014, BUT rates are still too low for a sensible rate of return.” “This is no longer a business for us, we mostly do access platforms, but have always had a decent business running telescopic handlers alongside them, but it’s getting harder to compete with the bigger fleets and the money is just not in it. We’d be better off cross hiring when we need them. We will probably run our fleet down.”

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AA shiftshift c&a truck mounts inin thethe market?market? The past year or two may have seen a fundamental shift in medium to large truck mounted platforms with the dominance of the two largest truck mount producers - German-based Palfinger and Finland-based Bronto - under pressure from Germany’s other major truck mounted platform producer Ruthmann, which has increased its working height range to 72 metres. But it is the other Italian products and was The top end growth of the number of mid to large Italian-built reinforced in some cases by poor Looking at the companies producing truck mounted platforms that may change the market parts and service backup. There are the largest platforms - 80 metres many anecdotal stories of Italian plus - there really are only two over the longer term. Cranes & Access investigates… machines being stood waiting for manufacturers. Palfinger and Bronto parts or technical support. That is have both been busy, particularly in The larger truck mounted to change. We have often asked the bad enough on a small machine, the middle range where the Italian platform market has been led question why Italian manufacturers but way too risky on larger, pricier producers are adding product. by Bronto and Wumag (now are so popular on the smaller truck units. Staying with the automotive Palfinger) for many years, and Bronto’s smallest model is currently mounted platforms yet don’t really sector, Skoda had a similar problem both these companies are still the 36 metre S36-XDT, while feature when customers look for - perceived as being unreliable and at the forefront of design and Palfinger, struggling to compete in larger platforms. Indications suggest ‘cheap’, even after Volkswagen innovation particularly above the 3.5 tonne market with its range that actual product design and build had completely revamped it. It has 70 metres as they continue to of German-built machines, acquired quality is no longer the main issue, taken more than a decade to change introduce new models. It is also Italian manufacturer Sky Aces however when making a large single ingrained attitudes to the brand. well documented that Italian investment the stereotype of Italian and formed Palfinger Italia to build manufacturers now dominate the manufacturers being unreliable Unfortunately the larger Italian truck simpler, lower cost platforms. Three 3.5 tonne market, with a winning remains. mounted platforms are generally models have been introduced so far, only just setting out on the road to the 14 metre P140T, the 20 metre spread of products with good In automotive terms, those old conversion. And compared to the P200A and the recently announced performance at the right price. enough will remember the Lancia smaller units the price advantage 24 metre P240A. The first model, This North - South split in terms of Delta rust fiasco of the 1970s is nowhere near big enough to the P200A is apparently already market dominance may well be set which had a knock on effect on tempt most northern European selling well. Whether these Italian buyers away from the tried and sourced platforms have the same tested German and Scandinavian quality and long term reliability competition. Even when customers as the company’s German-built are persuaded by a company’s products remains to be seen. There quality, reliability and product is also some speculation that support lower residual values will ‘cheaper’ Palfingers might affect the also be a deterrent and this will reputation of the larger machines, not improve until the brand image but for the moment they offer the gets stronger which in turn means Palfinger name at Italian prices. consistent quality, parts and service Palfinger is better known for its back-up build up over many years. larger ex Wumag/Bison machines However as the market for larger topped out by its 102.5 metre truck mounted lifts continues to WT1000 on a five axle Faun crane grow - particularly in less developed carrier, which has sold well. areas such as Eastern Europe, However using the All Terrain crane Russia, the Middle East, Africa chassis has both good and bad and Asia - demand for simpler/ points, while offering excellent This 39 metre CTE B-Lift 390 less sophisticated equipment at HR is using its 26.3 metre off road capability and great outreach to carry out a more attractive prices will begin to manoeuvrability, the specifically bridge inspection provide Italian manufacturers with designed chassis, is expensive significant business. and carries the higher parts and

December/January 2014 cranes & access 35 truck mounts c&a maintenance costs all too familiar concealed under to crane rental companies. Its latest the equipment big platform - the 90 metre P900 is box. A dummy therefore mounted on a commercial tank is fitted chassis and is clearly aimed at the to the vehicle popular Bronto S-90HLA. with the aim to 90 metre Palfinger prevent the theft of diesel. The new Palfinger P900 is mounted on a five-axle 48 tonne Scania truck Bronto XRs and is its largest lift mounted on Bronto which a standard commercial chassis. boasts the largest Bronto also has a 90 metre Bronto truck mount Palfinger’s latest is the 90 metre P900 mounted on a five axle, 48 tonne Scania commercial chassis mounted on similar commercial at 112 metres, chassis from MAN, Scania or Volvo has concentrated more in the 50 and the two have very similar to 70 metre range, this year with performance. (See comparison the introduction of the completely table.) The Bronto S-90HLA also new Bronto XR models which a offers a working height of 90 metres replacement for the company’s and compares well to the P900. best-selling XDT range, including the Its maximum outreach is slightly 50 metre S-50 XDT-J. Two models more but with less (400kg) in the were launched at Bauma, the 56 platform. Up and over height is two metre S 56 XR and the 65 metre metres more but outreach at this S 65 XR. The S65 XR features a height is two metres less. When set five section main boom, long two up the Bronto has a seven metre section jib and short articulating ‘sky outrigger width – one metre less jib’ which features more than 160 than the P900 and overall length is degrees of articulation. Mounted on 600mm shorter and has less front a 26 tonne, three axle truck, it offers overhang. up to 40 metres of outreach and How does the new Palfinger P900 stack up? Models Palfinger P900 Bronto S-90HLA Working height 90m 90m One of the new Bronto XR - the 56 metre S 56 XR Max platform capacity 700kg* 700kg Palfinger P900 Ruthann TTS1000 Max outreach 32.3m with 530kg 33m with 400kg Below ground reach -8m -9.5m Max up & over height 58m with 29m outreach 60m with 27m outreach Max outrigger width 8m 7m Platform closed 2.15m x 0.95m 2.5m x 0.9m Extended platform 3.45m x 0.95m 3.7m x 0.9m Platform rotation 168 degrees 180 degrees Overall length 16.15m 15.5m Overall height 4.0m 3.95m *With special heavy duty platform

The new Palfinger P900 offers 700kg of platform capacity, although up to 32.3 metres of outreach at this is reduced to 600kg with the heights of up to 46 metres while hydraulically telescoping platform the maximum up and over height is option. It also offers a 40 metre 58 metres, the unit also has eight up and over height at which the metres of reach below ground level. outreach is around 15 metres. The Maximum platform capacity is S56XR is similar to the S65XR but 700kg when using a special heavy utilises one less main boom section, duty platform although this is limited reducing the maximum working to 530kg at full outreach. Gross height to 56 metres, maximum vehicle weight is said to be well outreach however is 40 metres with under the 48 tonne capability of the 120kg platform capacity - three chassis. metres more than the S65. The P900 can hydraulically extend Bronto says that when it first its front axle to provide extra decided to develop a replacement stability without the need for a front for the XDT it took on board all of the Socage has a full range of platforms up to 70 metres with seven new jack. It also has a sleeper cab and feedback - both internal and external models or variations between 51 and 70 metres. This is the 54 metre Forste 54TJJ an extra-large fuel tank which is - in an effort to design a platform

36 cranes & access December/January 2014 c&a truck mounts The 63 metre on a two-axle 18 tonne chassis, T630 is mounted offering an outreach of 31 metres, on a four axle, 32 a 180 degree articulating jib and tonne chassis and a maximum platform capacity of boasts 39 metres 600kg. With a range of 4x2 and of outreach and 4x4 chassis available, overall can be driven length is typically less than 9.8 Ruthmann’s latest addition - the Steiger T630 - gives it five models between 38 and 72 metres throughout Europe metres. Ruthmann has been without special producing platforms under its permits or exemptions. Features ‘Steiger’ brand for almost 60 years which included lower running widths, a 2,000kg lifting eye on the include a 20 metre top boom plus having launched its first unit in costs, a greater working envelope main boom and a 300kg platform a 180 degree articulating jib, four 1954 and first telescopic unit two per tonne of Gross Vehicle Weight, mounted winch or 1,300kg boom locations from which to control years later. During this time it greater productivity and reliability, mounted winch. Other items include the outriggers and the company’s has introduced several innovative along with a standardised design a sleeper cab, more spare payload optional Lift-Up material handling products including the TTS 590 - a with more commonality between and an electronic RPM optimiser for system. 60 metre unit on a Faun chassis in models and easier servicing. lower noise levels and reduced fuel The 38 metre T380 is mounted 1985 and the 100 metre working The new models have up to 20 consumption. percent more working height for High performance Steigers their weight, 15 percent more Probably the busiest platform outreach and a significantly better manufacturer over the past year or working envelope. The two new two has been Ruthmann. It recently units also offer an overall length added the Steiger T630 and T380 of less than 12 metres, low axle units to its Height Performance weights, rear wheel steer, all- series that now extends to five wheel drive with Hydro-Drive, 180 models, with working heights of degrees of platform rotation, Bronto 38, 46, 54, 63, and 72 metres all B+ Geometric Control System, introduced since April 2012. And longer outrigger jacks for levelling according to Ruthmann, two more on slopes of up to 10 degrees, models will follow next year - faster auto levelling (30 seconds possibly on a two and a four axle Largest of Bronto’s new XR range of machines is the 65 metre S 65 XR with two section jib and up to 40 metres outreach set-up time), fully variable jacking chassis.

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Ruthmann Steiger T300 c&a truck mounts

CTE Multitel CTE B-Lift 510 HR B-Lift 320 HR MJ685

height TTS 1000 launched in 2001 metre T285 and 33 metre T330. Bronto S 50 XDT which has a 40 metre outreach at The new lift will be mounted on a 60 metres up and over height. Only 7.5 tonne truck and offer up to 21 two TTS 1000s have ever been metres of outreach and a 320kg built - one sold to Gerken and the maximum platform capacity. It other to Gardemann. The Gerken has 185 degrees of jib articulation, platform was bought by Abilene while platform rotation is a full 180 High Lift Aerials of Abilene, Texas degrees. Outrigger jacking is fully and is working in the wind turbine variable and unit can level on slopes maintenance sector of up to five degrees. While there are now several models Italian growth with a working height of 100 metres But 2013 has also seen several or more, the Ruthmann, mounted on other manufacturers (mainly Italian) a six axle trailer with a three axle entering or increasing their presence tractor, still has the most outreach in the mid to large truck mounted for this size of lift. The largest model sector, including Oil & Steel, in Ruthmann’s current standard Multitel, Socage, Isoli, CTE, CMC range is the 72 metre T720 (It also and GSR mainly offering products in shows a TTS 1000 and TTS 840 in the 30 to 40 metre sector. its literature). Launched at Bauma New range topper for CMC the T720 has a five section main up weight of 26 tonnes. Controls employs a three section telescopic boom and three section top boom Based in Modugno in south east are located both in the platform and boom, two section telescopic top capped by an articulating jib. The Italy, CMC’s range of aerial lifts the superstructure cab with digital boom and short articulated jib working envelope includes up to includes spiders and truck mounted display indicating working height with 155 degrees of articulation. 38 metres of outreach with 100kg platforms up to 36 metres. Its three and safe outreach. Maximum platform capacity is model PLJ truck mounted range platform capacity, or 30 metres Isoli re-enters mid-range 400kg at an outreach of 23 metres, with its maximum 600kg. It can also includes the 25 metre PLJ 250, 29 while maximum outreach is 27 Isoli is not new to larger aerial lift work up to 12 metres below ground metre PLJ 290 and 36 metre PLJ360 metres with 120kg. Since launch production and claims to have been level and operate safely on slopes of all of which feature jibs. The PLJ360 the company has up-graded it to one of the first Italian companies up to two degrees. is the latest and largest in the range the PTJJ 36.29 - increasing the and features a three section boom to produce larger truck mounted The platform can be extended maximum outreach from 27 to 29 topped by a three section telescopic lifts offering units up to 60 metres hydraulically from 2.42 metres to metres. jib/top boom. The working envelope in the past. However in recent 3.82 metres. Overall chassis length CTE B-lifts includes 360 degree continuous years it has focussed on models is a relatively compact 13.7 metres. slew, an up and over height of 24 under 27 metres but at Bauma it CTE platform range includes the All major truck chassis can be used metres and a maximum outreach of unveiled the 36 metre PTJJ 36.27, B-Lift High Range - previously with drives including 8x2, 8x4, 8x6 24 metres with 280kg or 22 metres the first and smallest of a three Bizzocchi - which has four models or 8x8 and customers can choose with the maximum 400kg platform model family which will include from 39 to 61 metres. The two between standard and sleeper cabs. capacity. It can reach almost 10 48 and 60 metre machines. The smaller machines - the 39 metre Ruthmann also launched the 30 metres below ground level and PTJJ36.27 is mounted on an 18 B-Lift 390 HR and the 42.5 metre metre straight telescopic T300.1 operate with its outrigger jacks tonne, two axle truck with an B-Lift 430 HR with outreaches of at Bauma completing its three deployed within the chassis width. overall length of 8.6 metres and 26.3 and 25.6 metres respectively model series along with the 28.5 The three axle chassis has an all 3.7 metres overall height. The lift - are mounted on an 18 tonne

December/January 2014 cranes & access 39 truck mounts c&a chassis and offer maximum platform and 70 metres. At its dealer day at capacities of 450kg. The 50.5 the end of September it unveiled metre B-Lift 510 HR has a 35 metre several new and upgraded products outreach and is mounted on a 26 as well as a new spare parts tonne chassis. The largest B-Lift - catalogue and on-line parts ordering the 61 metre 620 HR - also has 35 system. One of the new products in metres of outreach but is mounted the mid-range was the Forste 37DJ on a 32 tonne chassis. (37.2 metre working height, double Socage revamps articulated boom with jib) mounted on a two axle 11 tonne chassis. The CMC’s latest and largest - It was just over four years ago that the 36 metre PLJ360 platform has a maximum outreach Fiorenzo Flisi acquired Socage and of 23 metres with 80kg in the much has changed since then. It platform and about 19.5 metres platforms under development, now offers a full range of platforms with the maximum 300kg platform including the 57 metre TJ57, TJJ61, up to 70 metres and has seven new capacity. It also revealed details of TJ62, TJ65, TJJ66, TJJ69 and the models or variations between 51 several new larger truck mounted 70 metre TJ70. The company says that it has made more than 100 changes to the existing range including lowering the deck height, making it easier for operators to load tools and gain access to new component covers. Socage is having some success with its larger truck mounted platforms. As well as selling a 70 metre TJJ70 to the USA, it has already sold four, 54 metre TJJ54. The platform has an outreach of 40 metres and a 600kg platform Part of the Socage production facility capacity. It is also able to carry out producing large trucks The Socage TJ35 underbridge work.

40 cranes & access December/January 2014 Multitel launched its MJ range two years ago with the MJ320

Eagles rise current line-up is topped by its Oil&Steel has its Eagle truck 75 metre MJ750, while is latest mounted range including the model - the 68.5 metre MJ685 range-topping 60 metre Eagle 6035 - was launched at Bauma earlier mounted on a four axle - 32 tonne this year. Mounted on a 32 tonne truck with an overall length of chassis the lift has up to 35.5 11.5 metres, a width of 2.5 metres metres of outreach up and over and overall height of 3.99 metres. height of around 50 metres and Platform capacity is up to 500kg which it height it has 18 metres and outreach 30 metres. Other Eagle of outreach, and all from a very models include the 35 metre 3526 compact footprint. It also offers up and the 52 metre 5227. to 16 metres of reach below ground level. The MJ range was launched Big Multitels go mainstream two years ago with the MJ320 Multitel Pagliero is without question and the MJ420, does not feature the market leader in terms of units Multitel’s traditional 300 degree jib produced, and has a long history rotation gearbox/mechanism and and some notable success with as such is a separate product range larger models, although mostly in rather than a replacement for the France and Southern Europe. Its J300 series. With an overall chassis length of 10.6 metres and height of four metres the new lift is said to be ideal for inner city working, as well as other high reach applications such as wind turbine work. GSR adds a notch GSR moved into the over 30 metres sector two and a half years ago with the 32 metre E320PXJ. Mounted on a 12 tonne chassis the units has a heavy duty riser four section telescopic boom and articulated jib, providing a maximum outreach of 20 metres and 280kg platform capacity. As the above demonstrates, when it comes to mid to larger range truck mounted lifts there is more choice than ever, with the Italian producers clearly looking to extend their dominance of the sub 24 metre market up to 35 metres and then above. While they may still have some work to do to convince more sceptical western buyers to invest in their larger models, expect this to change as they continue to introduce new variations and innovations. The net result is likely to be an expansion of the overall GSR moved into the ‘over market and more innovations for 30 metre sector with its 32 metre E320PXJ truck mounted lift users. Watch this space.

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c&a look back 2013 2013 was another mixed year and greatly depended on where you were based. The A look world economic situation remained fragile and was particularly desperate in Southern Europe. In spite of this most companies in our sector fared better in 2013 than in 2012, although there were signs of third quarter slowing in some markets with a flourish back at towards year end. In terms of news the year was certainly eventful - our annual review looks at the highlights from the industry and the world at large. If you are looking for more details on any story that we have included, they can all be found online at www.vertikal.net 2 013 - simply use our search facility. Terex reshuffles its senior industry World News..World News.. January news management team - Tim Ford moves to Cranes, Tim Ford Russia grants citizenship to Manitowoc opens a new contact Matt Fearon takes over Gérard Depardieu who seeks to centre in Sydney. at Genie and Kevin avoid new taxes in France. Bradley becomes chief TNT Crane & Rigging acquires The 2013 European horse meat financial officer. Matt Southway Crane & Rigging of Fearon contamination scandal kicks off in Macon, Georgia. Manitowoc Cranes and the UK. Shantui Investment announce a A helicopter crashes into a luffing Elliott Equipment unveils the 40 Cyclist Lance JV to build truck cranes in China - jib tower crane in Vauxhall, London. tonne 45127R boom truck. Armstrong the deal falls apart in September. Cargotec appoints Mika admits to Terex Vehviläinen of Finnair as chief doping and is launches the executive. stripped of his Quadstar Olympic medal. Manitowoc launches a 165 tonne 1100, a MLC165 lattice-boom crawler crane. In Egypt massive protests kick 100 tonne off against president Mohamed ATN receives a €3 million capital Rough Morsi. Terrain injection from Entrepreneur Boeing 787 aircraft are grounded crane. Venture. worldwide over concerns about Canada-based Entrec acquires the safety of their lithium-ion Taylor Crane Service of North batteries. Dakota. Sky Aces launches the Fanlift Miloš Zeman wins the Czech Palfinger shows its largest 855-2600 platform. presidential election. knuckle boom crane to date, the Sumitomo increases its stake PK 200002 LSH. A militant group overruns a in Sunstate Equipment to 80 refinery in Aménas, Algeria and percent. holds a large number of foreign hostages. The army goes in after Arkansas-based Hugg & Hall Mark Evans takes over from four days, acquires Oklahoma-based Andrew Brown at Kobelco resulting in Westquip. Cranes UK. the death of Acme Lift’s chief operating officer 37 hostages Steve Nadelman departs and Bravi and 32 later moves to Sunstate. starts terrorists. selling Grove launches the RT770E Rough In Mali French troops recapture directly to Terrain and 60 tonne GMK3060 All Timbuktu without resistance users in Terrain crane. from the Islamists militants. the UK. Research In Motion officially unveils BlackBerry 10 phones.

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industry industry February news March news

Teupen unveils the 21 metre Leo 21GT spider lift. JCB signs engine supply deal with Magni Telehandlers. Genie unveils an updated version of the Z135/70 - the ZX-135/70. Aluminium crane manufacturer Böcker appoints Kranlyft as its UK distributor. Dutch heavy lifting company Schot takes the Bobcat launches the 3.8 tonne TR38160 first Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 All Terrain crane. telehandler, replacing its TR35160. Konecranes launches a 45 tonne hybrid reach IPAF issues its first full year accident report with Palfinger acquires Sky Aces and forms stacker. 31 fatalities. Palfinger Platforms ItalySrl. Manitou CEO Jean-Christophe Giroux Bluelift unveils the Isoli ships its first India mounted lift, a 23 metre resigns and Marcel-Claude Braud re-joins the SA18, a compact 18 PNT 230 on a locally-built Tata chassis. board. metre spider lift. World News..World News.. World News .. CTE appoints MOPSA as its dealer for Spain. The skeleton Iron Planet acquires Asset Appraisal of Richard Services, an online auction company and III of England appraiser. is discovered under a Custom Equipment car park in appoints Hy-Brid Access Leicester. Platforms as its new dealer for the UK. United States embassy in Ankara, Turkey, is bombed by the Revolutionary People’s UK-based Kimberly group orders 15, 135ft GGR is appointed Cormidi spider crane/lift Liberation Front killing two. Genie boom lifts. distributor for the UK. Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip JLG’s VP global marketing Brad Nelson Socage unveils a lightweight version of its Erdogan accuses Israel of waging “state is promoted to president of Oshkosh DA28 on a 3.5t chassis. terrorism” against Syria. Commercial. Genie introduces the Genie Lift Pro online The Royal Bank of Scotland is fined more AJ Access Platforms acquires the fleet of operator training programme. than $612 million for manipulating the Libor Carlisle Access. rate. Potain unveils the 2.5 tonne MCi 48 C tower France Elévateur acquires controlling interest crane in Mumbai. Pope Benedict XVI in CTE France, the CTE, Paus and Unic crane Magni Telehandlers becomes the first modern distributor. pope to resign. delivers its first Terex telehandlers to Dutch Warren Buffett and Cranes rental company Collé. Jorge Paulo Lemann buy delivers AFI acquires truck H. J. Heinz for $28 billion. the first mounted platform rental Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius is Superlift specialist Wilson charged with shooting his girlfriend Reeva 3800 Access Hire. Steenkamp, at home in Pretoria. crawler crane to Ulferts & Wittrock. A.W. Leil Holdings The large Hadron Collider is switched off for PM group merges its PM and Oil & Steel acquires Nova Scotia- two years for upgrading. operations under chief executive Luigi Fucili. based Partners Cranes. A massive meteor Harry McArdle (R) of Height for Hire/Easi Terex sells its Brazilian road building operations breaks up near the Uplifts receives IAPA lifetime achievement to the Fayat group. city of Chelyabinsk, award. Russia injuring more Genie than 1,200 people. launches Moody’s downgrades the UK’s bond credit a new rating from AAA to AA1. Heavy Duty telehandler The centre-left alliance Italy Common Good - the GTH- led by the Democratic Party wins the Italian 1544 - its first general election. high capacity Park Geun-hye becomes model. the first female president Teupen appointes Michael Scheuss as chief of South Korea. executive.

46 cranes & access December/January 2014 industry look back 2013 April news c&a Effer and Atlas extend their co-operation With 530,000 visitors agreement to all Atlas dealers. from 200 countries, CTE appoints Hematec as distributor for Bauma 2013 breaks its B-Lift range of truck mounted lifts in all records. Germany and Austria. JLG launches Chunjo Construction of Toucan 12E+. South Korea takes delivery of a 2,300t Manitowoc 31000 crawler crane. Sennebogen unveils a 70 tonne heavy duty Bigge Crane orders four 300 telescopic crawler crane. tonne Liebherr LR 1300 SX crawler cranes. UK-based Port Services Group invests £12 Platform Basket launches million in new cranes and transport. a 33 metre spider lift. Niftylift wins two Queen’s Awards. Barnhart acquires Steel City Crane of Bronto Skylift launches the new XR truck mounted lifts. Niftylift appoints IPS to Birmingham, Alabama. provide parts and service Liebherr establishes a crane sales and service Maeda launches throughout France. subsidiary in Mexico - Liebherr Mexico. the MK1033C spider crane Terex Cranes restructures on a regional basis. H.A.B appoints Collé as distributor for the with articulated Simon Cracknell, Benelux region. boom/jib. previously with JLG Menno Koel leaves Holland Lift as ProDelta joins Skyjack as Investments takes over. director of business Palazzani launches a 52 metre development Asia. Tanfieldplaces 10.5 million new shares raising XTJ52 spider lift on tracks or wheels. £2.1 million. Atlas and Finnish port loader company Genie unveils the 180ft SX180 Mantsinen form a strategic partnership. boom lift. World News..World News.. World News .. CPA promotes Kevin Minton to director. TNT Crane acquires TSD Crane Hugo Chávez, & Rigging and Greenergy World News..World News.. World News .. president of Venezuela, Construction & Maintenance. dies in office at the age Margaret Thatcher dies age 87. of 58. North Korea threatens its enemies with CMC unveils the the possibility of a pre-emptive nuclear 25 metre PLA 250 strike. South Korea closes the border and straight telescopic North Korea breaks the 1953 armistice, cuts truck mounted lift. telephone connections and then declares a Rothlehner acquires design rights and parts state of war. business for Denka trailer lifts. Silvio Berlusconi is convicted of arranging H.A.B launches a 15.7 an illegal wiretap and sentenced to a year in metre TR16JD crawler jail. mounted boom lift and a Cardinal Jorge Mario 32.5 metre narrow aisle Bergoglio of Argentina is scissor lift. A camel given to president Hollande for liberating Mali is eaten by the family in elected as the new pope, Snorkel launches the 43ft Timbuktu taking care of it. taking the name Pope S4390RT Rough Terrain Francis. scissor lift. A bomb at the Boston Marathon kills three. Xi Jinping is chosen as president of China Multitel Pagliero unveils the 68.5 and Li Keqiang as the new premier. metre MJ685 truck mounted platform. Scientists at the large Hadron Collider confirm ATN launches the 46ft Zebra 16 the particle discovered articulated boom. in July 2012 is a Higgs Palfinger launches a 90 metre truck boson. mounted lift on a commercial chassis. President of Bangladesh Zillur Rahman dies Steve Couling takes over as in office at the age of 84. president of IPAF. Justin Welby is formally enthroned as the Zoomlion launches the 8-ZT180 topless tower The British Horseracing Authority bans new Archbishop of Canterbury. crane. Godolphin Racing trainer Mahmood Al agrees a Cyprus Ruthmann launches the 30 metre Zarooni for eight years after 11 of his horses bailout deal with the T300.1 truck mounted lift. test positive for steroids. European Union after Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates closing banks for Unic unveils the battery powered in favour of her son the Prince of Orange, who two weeks. Eco-095 spider crane. becomes King Willem-Alexander.

December/January 2014 cranes & access 47 look back 2013 c&a World News..World News.. World News .. World News .. Three women missing for 10 Angelina Jolie has a double years are found in Cleveland, Ohio, industry mastectomy due to her family May news a 52-year-old man, Ariel Castro, history of breast cancer. is arrested. OSHA delays crane operator A high rise factory - the certification requirements in the Savar building - collapses in USA until 2017. Bangladesh killing 1,127 people. Michael Wotschke - joint chief executive at Teupen - departs. John Ball, MD of Ireland- Manitex unveils its largest crane based to date - the 70 tonne TC70. Height For Ireland pardons thousands of US-based Trico Lift appoints Hire/Easi soldiers who left the Irish Army Chris Carmolingo as chief Uplifts to fight with the Allies during executive. announces his departure. World War II. Wayne Lawson joins Riwal as Haulotte opens a sales Ireland pardons thousands of Ford announces the closure of regional director north Europe. and service subsidiary in soldiers who left the Irish Army its Australian manufacturing Ashtead acquires Mumbai, India. to fight with the Allies during operations, including its Accession Group/Eve Jeff World War II. Broadmeadows car factory and Trakway. Brundell Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd engine plant in Geelong with a Battalion the Royal Regiment of loss of 1,200 jobs. Kevin O’Shea moves to retires as Fusiliers is killed and butchered by Canadian mastclimber a director Protestors are forcibly removed two thugs in a London street. manufacturer Hydro Mobile. of CICA from Gezi Park in Taksim after Square, Istanbul, Turkey. Imran Khan, the Pakistani more than cricketer/politician is injured after 25 years. falling from a pallet on a forklift. Kalmar acquires Spanish crane refurbishment/maintenance company Mareiport.

industry JCB announces Graeme The largest Vertikal Days so far… World News..World News.. June news MacDonald as successor to Alan Five children and eight adults were Blake as chief executive. New research finds that injured when a crane lifting them graphene is the strongest A marshall at the Canadian Grand overturned in Germany. material in the world Prix dies when he is run over by a even when joined. telehandler. The 60th anniversary 21 Zoomlion executives buy $22 of Queen Elizabeth million company shares. II’s coronation. Nationwide Platforms orders Greece shuts down public radio 1,000 Pecolift work platforms. and television broadcaster ERT, calling it a “haven of waste”. Haulotte launches a new Sany America launches the 77 Former CIA employee Edward Multitel launches the 23.5 Entrapment Prevention System, tonne SRC885 Rough Terrain crane. Snowden admits metre MX235 truck mount at ACTIV’Shield Bar at Vertikal Days. Vertikal Days. Manitowoc files a patent leaking information on infringement complaint irregular NSA phone Alberta-based Entrec acquires against Sany. and email hacking, GT’s Crane and defects to Hong Kong Transportation Services. Ainscough Crane and ends up in Russia. Hire appoints Robin Oil&Steel appoints Mantis Kevin Rudd wins an Australian Richardson as Access as UK/Ireland distributor. Labour Party leadership challenge managing director against incumbent Julia Gillard AFI acquires Hi-Reach and following the and takes over as prime minister. Access Rental Gulf and retirement of Neil completes £85 million refinancing. Partridge. Gunmen kill two polio vaccinators A Genie Z-135 boom lift overturns in northwest Pakistan. Tadano starts production at its onto the M25 motorway in London, new facility in Thailand. Riwal buys- Moderate killing Rick Jaeger-Fozard. Hassan Delta Rigging & Tools acquires out the minority Isoli appoints APS as its shareholders in Rouhani is Louisiana-based Morgan City elected as the Rentals. distributor for the UK. Riwal Spain. Versalift’s NSSTA sticker of conformity president of Iran.

48 cranes & access December/January 2014 look back 2013 & World News..World News.. c a Croatia becomes 28th member of the EU. industry July news The Egyptian army deposes Mohamed Morsi and other Fork Rent Muslim Brotherhood leaders, orders 900 JCB Mohamed ElBaradei is telehandlers named prime minister. worth more than King Albert II of Belgium £53 million. abdicates for health reasons - son Prince Philippe, Duke of Isoli mounts truck mounted lifts in Brabant takes over. Czech Republic. Bob Hund is promoted to president agreement with camera system of the Manitowoc Foodservice specialist Orlaco. Andy Murray becomes launches a Spanish version of IPAF division. first British winner its North American operator course. Genie issues a Safety Notice of Men’s Singles at First Russia-mounted Oil&Steel requiring all Genie Z135/70 booms Ahern Rentals emerges from Wimbledon since 1936. truck mounted lift shipped. to be inspected. Chapter 11 after an 18 month battle. A boy - George Alexander David Haynes MD Australia’s Elevating Work Louis - is born to Kate and of Tutt Bryant and Platform Association publishes Sany America William, Duke and Duchess of Tat-Hong’s Australian Cross Hire Agreement. Cambridge, he is third in line to launches the 150 operations retires. the British throne. tonne SCC8150 Dubai-based Manlift appoints Tom crawler crane. Bobcat celebrates the 50th Cunningham as MD, following the A high-speed train carrying anniversary of its telehandler plant retirement of John Ashcroft. 225 passengers derails near in Pontchateau, France. Manitex unveils the 19 ton 1970C Santiago de Haulotte sells its UK rental boom truck mounted on a two axle Compostela, business, UK Platforms, to 4x2 chassis. Spain, leaving general rental company HSS. 80 dead and over 140 injured. Bradley Manning is acquitted of aiding the enemy for leaking Cargotec acquires ship/offshore classified US Army information winch manufacturer Hatlapa Group. to WikiLeaks, but found guilty of Manitowoc signs a five year espionage and theft.

industry Fassi acquires French hook loader World News..World News.. August news manufacturer Marrel. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Tadano launches a 145 Wacker Neuson appoints purchases The Washington tonne the GR-1600XL-2 Patrick Degen as managing Post for $250 million. Rough Terrain crane on director of Wacker Neuson France. A fire badly a three axle chassis. Holland Lift appoints AJ Access damages Platforms as its distributor for the Nairobi’s UK and Ireland. Jomo Modulift launches its first modular Kenyatta Norway-based Flexleie buys 20, CMOD spreader frame. Airport. MEC Speed Level 2684RT-T for and tunnel work. Isoli appoints Instant Norge as North South Korea Australia’s Elevating Work its aerial lift distributor for Norway resume talks on reopening the Platform Association launches and the Baltic Republics. Kaesong industrial zone its new UoC Operator Licence. Top Service launches a Credit The UK threatens Spain with legal Coates acquires the general rental Circle for the UK crane, access and action over additional border assets of Force Rentals. heavy equipment rental industry. checks in Gibraltar. Ramirent sells its Hungarian Teresa Kee of NES Rentals is Researchers at the University business to a private equity fund. elected as chairman of IPAF’S of Milan unveil a device that IPS appoints KK Materiel as its North America Regional Council. measures brain function and partner for Demark. consciousness in brain-damaged Pro-Delta appoints Eline individuals. Ingo Schiller takes Oudenbroek as managing director £2,180 is raised for the widow of The USA and UK threaten over as head of of Holland Lift. military strikes against Syria Manitowoc Crane Rick Jaeger-Fozard who died when his boom lift overturned. over chemical weapon attacks on Care. its citizens United Rentals acquires Canadian Liebherr begins that equipment rental company Rent construction of a new logistics reportedly World. centre in Germany. killed PASMA publishes its new safety Riwal acquires the aerial work 1,429 standard PAS 250 for the design of platform business of Sarens people. low-level platforms. Belgium.

50 cranes & access December/January 2014 Sports results for 2013 c&a look back 2013 Football French Open: Rafael Nadal No 1 Ranking Ice Hockey Wigan Athletic defeat wins against David Ferrer. at end of 2013 Chicago Blackhawks beat the Manchester City 1-0 in Australian Open: Novak - Tiger Woods Boston Bruins four games to two. the UK’s FA Cup. Djokovic wins against Andy American Baseball Murray. Football Bayern Munich beat Boston Red Sox beat St Louis Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in Czech Republic defeats Serbia Baltimore Cardinals 4-2. UEFA European Cup. to win the Davis Cup. Ravens beat the Basketball Rugby Union Formula One San Francisco 49ers 34 -31 in Miami Heat beat the San Antonio Wales wins the Superbowl. Spurs 4-3. Six Nations tournament for Cricket Horse Racing second year in England wins Auroras Encore, ridden by Ryan a row. the 2013 Mania wins Grand National. Toulon defeats Clermont Ashes Series Bobs Worth Sebastian Vettel retains Driver’s Auvergne 16 – 15 in the final of the against Australia ridden by Barry championship. Heineken Cup. in the UK. Geraghty wins New Zealand wins the Red Bull retains the Constructor’s Australia win the 2013/2014 Cheltenham Tri-Nations cup for the championship. Ashes in Australia. Gold Cup. second year running. Golf India beats England to win the Ruler of the Tennis The Masters - 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. World, ridden by Ryan Moore wins Epsom Derby. U.S. Open: Rafael Nadal beats Adam Scott Cycling Orb, ridden by Joel Rosario wins Novak Djokovic. U.S. Open - Chris Froome Kentucky Derby. Wimbledon: Justin Rose of the UK and Andy Murray The Open - Phil Mickelson Team Sky wins Oxbow, ridden by beats Novak the 100th Tour Gary Stevens wins the PGA Championship - Jason Djokovic. de France. Preakness Stakes. Dufner Palace Malice, ridden by Mike E. Smith wins Belmont Stakes.

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industry CAT Mammoet unveils a 600 tonne MTC15 terminal crane. September news updates its 14 and 17 metre telehandlers. The BBC airs the Crane Gang documentary. IPAF holds its first UK banger Time Versalift establishes a new racing even. operation Time Nederland. Stavdal acquires fellow Swedish Tanfield access rental company Rentex. ‘places’ Shantui pulls out of its planned Snorkel Ruthmann appoints Time Liebherr announces truck crane JV with Manitowoc into a new Manufacturing as distributor for separation of its tower crane in China. company controlled North America. and concrete divisions. Harsco ‘sells’ Harsco by Don Ahern of Ahern Rentals. Sunbelt Rentals acquires MAC Nationwide Platforms’ MD Mike Infrastructure to a new venture Leasing. Potts resigns. Brand Energy & Infrastructure Link-Belt updates its 70 tonne Hurricane force winds take down Services. TCC-750 telescopic crawler crane. Palfinger Platforms launches the P140T truck mounted platform. two tower cranes in London. Skyjack opens sales/service HSS Hire acquires the Irish division Ruthmann unveils the 22 metre MEC unveils its Aircraft Ground facilities in Sweden and Germany. of Mobile Traffic Solutions. TBR220 truck mounted lift. Support Equipment scissor lift range. Hiab unveils Palfingerand Sany acquire a 10 percent stake in each other. Tim Frank resigns as CEO of Hiab president Axel four new loader Sany America. Leijonhufvud resigns. crane models. CTE Sinoboom improves Dingli launches its launches a the first mast boom. 15ft GTJZ04 Andy Wright head of Lavendon working Ruthmann unveils compact Middle East moves to Speedy envelope the 38 metre T380 electric slab Middle East. of its ZED truck mounted lift. scissor lift. AB2000 acquires Ellon Plant 20.2 HV. NES Rentals Hire. acquires West Georgia Aerial Northern Crane re-brands as World News..World News.. NCSG and acquires Scorpion Lift. Industries. Vodafone sells its stake in Niftylift delivers the first 86ft World News..World News.. Verizon for $130 billion. HR28 boom lift to Loxam announces consolidation of Twitter files IPO Cramer Arbeitsbühnen. its French businesses into a single Microsoft purchases Nokia’s valuing the company entity. mobile phone division for $7.2 at $14.2 billion. billion. Crane Ireland rejects Australians elect manufacturer government proposals to abolish Tony Abbott as Broderson is the upper house Seanad prime minister. acquired by the Éireann, but supports plans to Lanco group. Egypt bans create a Court of Appeal. Muslim Hematec acquires parts and A boat carrying African migrants Brotherhood. service assets of failed aerial lift Yanmar acquires a 6.26 percent catches fire off the coast of manufacturer ESDA . Syria agrees to hand over all of stake in Manitou. Lampedusa, Italy, killing its chemical weapons. more than 360. France-Elevateur First Reserve private equity acquires NASA’s Voyager launches a new 17 metre TNT Crane & Rigging. 1 space probe insulated platform. Grúas Aguilar takes the first 750 leaves the solar tonne Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 in Sunbelt Rentals system. acquires Contractors’ Spain. Equipment 61 civilians and six soldiers are Company. Higher Concept appoints Syrinx killed in the Westgate mall Hire Software as reseller for Altec launches siege in Nairobi, Kenya. Libyan prime minisiter Ali Australia and New Zealand. Zeidan is kidnapped but later its largest truck Barack Obama and Iranian released. crane to date president Hassan Rouhani hold the 45 ton talks. European Union leaders protest to AC45-127S. the USA over claims that it spied The Costa Concordia is pulled on Germany’s Angela Merkel Tadano investigates the acquisition upright. of its distributor Cranes UK. and others. orders 450 CAT Turkey opens a sea tunnel under Socage develops a 13.5 metre Hewden telehandlers as part of a £61 million the Bosphorus in Istanbul pick-up mounted aerial lift for desert renewal programme. connecting Europe and Asia. applications.

52 cranes & access December/January 2014 industry November news IPAF complains to the UK Ron Schad government about the time chief executive taken to report on the fatal boom of Essex incident. Crane resigns. MEC launches a new 60ft Rough Speedy agrees Terrain scissor lift. a joint venture with J&J Steve Corcoran Denholm in Kazakhstan. resigns as CEO of Speedy following Canadian G. Cooper Equipment financial irregularities Rentals acquires City Rentals. in its International business. Manitex acquires Palfingeracquires two specialist pick&carry crane access companies, one in Austria maker Valla. and one in the Middle East. HSS Hire acquires machine cleaning specialist Premiere FCM. Two people die when a crawler crane collapses at Sao Paulo’s Arena Corinthians stadium.

Ascendant Access of the UK enters administration. IPS acquires outrigger mat supplier PLC Sales. NCSG acquires Doug’s Crane of Prince Rupert, British Columbia. World News..World News.. Bobcat launches the upgraded UNESCO suspends the voting T40140 and T40180 telehandlers. rights of USA and Israel after they refuse to pay their dues as a protest to the admission of Palestine. Francis Bacon’s painting Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) is sold for a record $142.4 million. The 50th anniversary of the Ruthmann unveils its T630 truck assassination of John F. mounted lift. Kennedy. Taiyuan Heavy Industry (TYHI) Typhoon Haiyan hits South East unveils a 500 tonne All Terrain crane. Asia, particularly the Philippines Zoomlion completes a 7,500 tonne/ killing at least metre overload test with its 2,000 6,100 people. It tonne QAY2000 All Terrain crane. is the strongest Time Benelux opens a new facility storm ever to hit in Tienen, Belgium. land in terms of wind speed. Palfinger Platforms unveils its Iran signs an interim agreement new 24 metre P240A truck limiting its nuclear programme in mounted lift. exchange for reduced sanctions. More than 100,000 people protest in Kiev, Ukraine, against the government’s decision to suspend the signing of an association agreement with the European Union. A helicopter crashes onto a pub in Glasgow killing eight people.

December/January 2014 cranes & access 53 Sany America appoints Mike Ray Ledger retires as chairman of look back 2013 & Riwal appoints Rhoda as chief executive. Kimberly Group. c a Nick Field as Hubert Palfinger country manager Germany and industry takes over as opens a depot in Brazil. IPAF introduces its December news chairman of Palfinger’s machine-readable A slow market in India will hit 2013 supervisory board. Ainscough loses commercial Smart PAL card. profits atJCB . director Gareth Jones. UK crawler crane veteran Rod Palfinger acquires Nationwide Platforms appoints Abbott retires from NRC Russian forestry and Jeremy Fish as managing director. after 52 years. recycling loader crane Two five axle cranes World News..World News.. A judge rules that the collection company Lifting overturn during of domestic phone records by the Machine. a tandem lift in Riots break out in Singapore National Security Agency is Caracas, Venezuela. after a fatal accident in Little India. Bronto says it plans to introduce unconstitutional. a 47 metre platform mounted a two Death and state Michelin launches the new Michelle Bachelet axle chassis in 2014. funeral of Nelson X-Crane + All Terrain tyre. is elected as president Mandela in South Canadian crane group NCSG Fassi acquires a controlling of Chile for the Africa. acquires Mullen Rigging and interest in Swedish timber crane second time. General Motors announces Industrial Services. manufacturer Cranab. Russia pardons Mikhail closure of its Australian Holden Ahern Rentals acquires Alliance Khodorkovsky after more than A loader crane boom and its load manufacturing subsidiary in 2017. Rental of Georgia with owners comes down on two vehicles in the 10 years in prison, Pussy Riot Rusty Kaylor and Russ Stear centre of Bergen, Norway. Uruguay becomes the first country and Greenpeace activists are to legalise marijuana/cannabis. also freed. Skyjack announces Terex releases details of the ‘Boom China makes the first two secondary guarding/ Booster’ upgrade Michael Schumacher is left ‘soft’ landing on the crush-protection options kit for its CC 8800 fighting for his life after a skiing Moon since 1976. for its range of boom lifts. crawler crane. accident.

Sir David Frost,74, of a heart Slim Whitman, 90, country singer- attack on board the Queen Elizabeth songwriter Those who are no longer with us Tom Clancy, 66, best-selling novelist Marc Rich, 78, commodities trader and US tax evader From the Industry Eric Millard, 87, ex-European Lou Reed, 71, lead singer of The engineering director for Grove Velvet Underground Mick McManus, 93, professional Kevin Bellis, 62, owner of wrestler UK based Atrium Access Cranes Mikhail Kalashnikov, 94, designer of the AK-47 rifle Richard Thorp, 81, UK actor Andrew Brown, 69, UK sales Jimmy Cook, 93, UK’s Lighthouse manager at Kobelco Cranes Club’s oldest and most loyal supporter David Coleman, 87, British Hazel Hawke, 83, wife of ex- television sports commentator Australian PM Bob Hawke John Lane, 57, a Rickie Lee Grimsley, 59, Manitowoc manufacturer’s rep with MJ Miller cranes employee after an accident Ronnie Biggs, 84, Infamous Bill Pertwee, 86, British combined companies David Jackson, 65, VP engineering Great Train Robber actor (Dad’s Army) Maurice Bernard, 43, co-founder at Tulsa Winch Joan Fontaine, 96, Oscar-winning Jean Stapleton, 90, American actress of Xtra Materieel, Rotterdam Ernst Kumposcht, 78, co- actress (All in the Family) Chris Leadbeater, 57, following founder of Maltech Austria Peter O’Toole, 81, actor Milo O’Shea, 86, Irish actor a short battle with cancer Tim Novoselski, 62, former (Lawrence of Arabia) Nelson Mandela, age 95, Annette Funicello, 70, first host Paul G. Harms, 82, founder of owner of RER magazine of Mickey Mouse Club and singer Joe Palumbo, 84, American German electronics manufacturer Moba Gary ‘Grumpy’ Avery a CraneSafe Margaret Thatcher - age 87, Jan Sarens,59, shot dead assessor, based in Victoria, Australia football player John J. ‘Jack’ Shaughnessy, 86 ex- John Cole, 85, broadcaster and BBC Jocasta Innes, 78, writer and in a car park in Mexico businesswoman Dave Holland, 60, president of Shaughnessy & Ahern political editor UK access technician and Shaughnessy Crane Service Manfred Rommel, 84, ex-mayor of Kenny Ball, 82, jazz trumpeter Robin Williamson, 53, UK crane John Richards, 51, tower crane Stuttgart and son of Erwin Rommel Norman Collier, 87, British technician operator died in his cab from a heart Sir John Tavener, 69, composer, comedian and actor Christian-Jacques Vernazza, attack from Marfan syndrome Frank Thornton, 92, actor 65, owner of Mediaco and Todd Hildebrand, 46, co-owner of Doris Lessing, 94, novelist, (Are You Being Served, Last of the president of ESTA Alexander Equipment Rental poet, winner of Nobel Prize in Summer Wine, Gosford Park) Ian Grooby, 57, CEO of the Crane Erwin De Ketele, Belgian delivery Literature - 2007 Boris Berezovsky, 67, Russian Association of New Zealand. driver, in an accident age 35 Robin Leigh-Pemberton, 86, ex- oligarch - suspected suicide Roy Lynn Airington, 53, owner Wider world governor of the Bank of England Giancarlo Martini, 65, Italian Formula of California High Reach after Jovanka Broz, 88, widow of One driver, co-founder of Team Minardi Gerard Helders, 107, ex Dutch Yugoslavia’s Tito (Josip Broz) a short illness. minister and oldest former politician Julie Harris, 87, actor - Knotts Landing Eiji Toyoda, 100, built Toyota into a Rab Paterson, 81, UK access in the world Richard Briers, 79, of emphysema industry veteran - (SGB, BET, Facelift) global car manufacturer Ed Koch, 88, former Mayor Cory Monteith, 31, actor - Glee Rick Jaeger-Fozard, 29, of New York City Elisabeth Maxwell, 92, widow of Robert Maxwell Dale Robertson, 89, American actor accident when a lift overturned Bruce Reynolds, 81, mastermind of in the UK the Great Train Robbery Mike Winters, 82, British Jonathan Winters, 87, actor and comedian Dick Kitson, 65, of Hirschmann Hugo Chávez, 58, comedian Automation (PAT) following a short president of Venezuela Bernie Nolan, 52, Irish singer (The Robert Kee, 93, British journalist battle with cancer Nolans) and actress from breast and broadcaster George Lowe, 89, last surviving cancer Kenjiro (Ken) Nezuka, long time member of the 1953 Everest Mariangela Melato, 71, Italian senior executive with Aichi after a Expedition Alan Whicker, 87, British actress pancreatic cancer short illness. broadcaster (Whicker’s World) Giulio Andreotti, 94, seven-time Michael Winner, 77, film director and George Sparrow, 88, co-founder prime minister of Italy Mel Smith, 60, comedian food critic of Sparrows crane hire of Bath, UK and actor heart attack James Gandolfini, 51, Tony Tom Sharpe, 85, author Paul Walker, 40, actor - Fast & Furious Sergei Balanovsky, 37, crane Soprano in The Sopranos, series - car crash operator, following an accident in Haifa (Porterhouse Blue, Wilt) after a heart attack Esther Williams, 91, actress Dan Jones, 55, Genie mid-west Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau,44, Gene Mako, 97, tennis player regional sales manager of the Netherlands, after a 2012 Wimbledon mens doubles winner Ed Lauter 74, actor cancer Herwarth Slupinski, 64, German skiing accident 1937/1938 Noel Harrison, 79, singer - Windmills crane and access entrepreneur Seamus Heaney, 74, poet and Eydie Gormé, 84, award winning of you mind son of Rex, heart attack John Penny, 54, MD of loader crane recipient of 1995 Nobel Prize in singer Margaret Pellegrini, 89, actress – a manufacturer Penny Hydraulics Literature Ken Norton, 70, Heavyweight boxer Munchkin in the 1939 Wizard of OZ film

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56 cranes & access December/January 2014 Manufacturer/ c&a ALLMI focus service company meeting On 3rd December, ALLMI’s manufacturer/service company members convened to discuss a range of industry related topics and to be updated on the association’s various projects and activities which included: New records for training • ALLMI’s involvement in producing ALLMI recently announced record training levels for 2013, with demand pan-industry guidance for managing for its lorry loader and slinger and signaller courses increasing by more plant operator competence. (L) Mark Rigby congratulates Mick Wright on his 30 years of service than 40 and 100 percent respectively. • The development of ALLMI’s crane recently stepped down from his ALLMI chief executive, Tom Wakefield, said: “We are extremely pleased supervisor training programme and position on the ALLMI Technical with what has been an outstanding year for all aspects of the ALLMI the pilot courses currently taking Committee following more than 30 scheme. The demand we are experiencing is due to the quality and place. years in the role. recognition of ALLMI’s training programmes, which largely stems from the dedication of our training and technical committees, as well as our ad-hoc • The recently released BS7121, Wright said: “It’s been a pleasure working groups. These members and training providers, in conjunction part 2-4. and a privilege to serve on the with our full-time staff, ensure that scheme content is always of the very ALLMI Technical Committee and to • ALLMI’s range of industry safety highest standard and that it continually evolves in line with ever-changing have direct involvement in so many campaigns. legislative and technical requirements, as well as the needs of the industry. projects that have had a positive We are in the process of piloting our new Crane Supervisor course, and impact on industry standards. In addition, members received a the ALLMI Training Scheme Review is due to start in the first quarter of I’ve seen the association develop presentation from Vehicle Certification 2014. With these developments taking place, as well as a number of other and evolve during my time on the Agency (VCA) project manager, Mike initiatives which will strengthen the standing of ALLMI training, we are committee and I wish my industry Protheroe, who spoke on the subject anticipating further growth in 2014 and beyond.” of Whole Vehicle Type Approval. The technical colleagues, as well as all at ALLMI, the very best for the meeting also facilitated a presentation More people have taken ALLMI training to Mick Wright of T H White, who years ahead.” courses last year than ever before ALLMI at Vertikal Days 2014

A participant taking part in ALLMI’s Operator of the Year competition hosted at Vertikal Days ALLMI forms after- sales working group

ALLMI has announced plans for Barnard of Transloader Services has the formation of an ‘After-Sales agreed to chair it. Our next step will Working Group’, to enhance be to hold an inaugural open forum communication and cohesion in late February, which will be used between manufacturer and as an opportunity to elicit feedback service repairer members. from all interested members as ALLMI has announced its plans aim is to attract even more industry ALLMI technical director, Alan to the future demographics and for Vertikal Days 2014. Taking stakeholders to the event and to Johnson said: “At a recent meeting direction of the Working Group.” place on 14th/15th May at have a record number of loader of the ALLMI board, a discussion Haydock Park, the ALLMI Village crane exhibitors in 2014. Several was held concerning ways in is an area of the event devoted have already confirmed their spots which we can better engage a entirely to the lorry loader within the Village and we expect significant number of our service/ industry. It is also where ALLMI many more to follow. The Village repairer members. Without wishing and many of its manufacturer will also host the ‘ALLMI Operator to mix metaphors, these members members will exhibit. of the Year’ competition, which has have a great deal of knowledge ALLMI chairman, Mark Rigby, rapidly become recognised as the and experience at a coal-face level said: “We are very much looking annual event for raising awareness which we believe to be largely forward to building upon the ever- of quality training and assessment, untapped. The formation of this increasing profile of the ALLMI promoting safety and efficiency, and group was felt to be a positive move The Europlatform Village. Last year’s show was our commending those who work to the towards achieving this engagement conference in Istanbul Carly Barnard most successful to date, but the highest standards.” and we are delighted that Carly

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SCA announces c&a training crane training initiatives The Singapore Cranes Association (SCA) has announced plans for a one-stop crane training centre, and a Crane Operators Register to help ensure crane operators keep their skills relevant and up-to-date. Hawazi Daipi, Singapore senior parliamentary secretary education and manpower, said: “The crane industry supports our economic development and has raised the productivity of many industries. However we must ensure that there is a pipeline of trained, qualified and safety-conscious crane operators. The industry must help job-seekers understand the career The SCA is to set up a paths available and the important role crane operators play in the safety crane operator training of our workplaces and public spaces to encourage more Singaporeans to centre and register consider a career in the crane industry.” LEEA introduces new training courses $61,000 for failed rope incident The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) has launched two new practical training courses covering the thorough examination of The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined electrical overhead travelling and portal cranes, and runways and Mountain States Contractors of Tennessee almost $61,000, following crane structures. an incident in May. The five-day courses prepare delegates for the thorough examination of The lattice crane was working from a barge, replacing a bridge over the equipment and the criteria for returning them to service. The Runways and Cumberland River, when the main boom hoist cable broke, dropping the Crane Structures diploma focuses on runway beams, jib and mobile gantry boom onto a passing car, injuring the driver. The company was fined $56,000 cranes and structures, while the Electric Overhead Travelling and Portal for failing to remove the damaged rope from operation, even though daily Cranes diploma caters for delegates LEEA has inspections indicated it needed replacing, and $4,900 for failing to ensure that already hold LEEA’s Lifting introduced two that a deficiency noted on the annual inspection was checked on a monthly new thorough basis. OSHA area director Machines Power qualification. The examination courses can be held at the association’s courses William Cochran said: “This fully equipped training centre in employer wilfully disregarded Huntingdon, or at any suitable premises worker safety and allowed worldwide. For more information the crane to operate even contact LEEA at [email protected]. though daily crane inspections indicated the cable needed replacement and replacement Seven figure settlement for banksman cable was available on-site, it Mountain States Kenneth Brown, 64, a fitter employed by UK-based Johnson Controls, has is fortunate that no one was Contractors fined for wilful and serious received a seven figure settlement after losing his leg following an incident killed or seriously injured in safety violations with an aerial lift. Brown was directing the lift at the Sellafield nuclear this incident.” plant in Cumbria when it surged forward crushing his left leg, causing extensive injuries which resulted in it being amputated above the knee. A spokesman for Johnson Controls said: “Johnson Controls has accepted a degree of personal responsibility, fully cooperated with the Health and Who trained him then? Safety Executive investigation and pleaded guilty to a breach of Health & Safety regulation. The company also complied promptly with an improvement notice in respect of banksman procedures.” £8,000 for ladder fall Dundas Chemical Company (Mosspark) Ltd, has been fined £8,000 after an employee fell four metres from a ladder. Matthew Maxwell, 70, had climbed to the top of a ladder to measure up a section of pipework which was to be replaced at the company’s Omoa Works in Motherwell, Scotland. As he Spotted in Steenbergen, the reached out to take the measurement, the ladder slipped down the wall Netherlands, a man who has until it hit a cable tray. Maxwell was bounced into the air and struck attached a lateral wooden platform his head as he hit the ground, also sustaining bruising to his ribcage, a extension to an aerial lift in order sprained thumb and a cut eye. He was off work for seven weeks. to gain extra outreach for installing The court found that the company had failed to provide a safe system for cladding panels. Not only is the working at height with ladders, had no suitable training or supervision for platform lacking any form of safety working at height with ladders, no ladder register and no process to ensure but the machine, an UpRight SL26 that workers did not undertake activities that could put them at risk if working is also not designed to take the side alone. HSE Inspector Eve Macready said: “This was an entirely preventable loadings inflicted. incident which could have been even more serious if Mr Maxwell’s fall was not broken when the ladder hit the cable tray.”

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Anti-entrapment c&a IPAF focus should change to secondary guarding The UK’s Strategic Forum for Construction Plant Safety Group has unanimously agreed to change the terminology used for additional devices which reduce the risk of overhead crushing injury from ‘anti- entrapment’ to ‘secondary guarding’ devices. The group agreed with the proposal prepared by IPAF technical officer Chris Wraith which stated that all aerial lifts are safe by design and are fitted as An operator standard with a function enable device which provides a primary guarding using a IPAF system. Any additional devices fitted to an aerial lift therefore offer secondary Smart PAL Card protection and should not replace good practice by management and the operator. Anti-entrapment devices do not prevent entrapment – they offer a secondary guarding option to assist management in reducing the risk of serious injury from overhead hazards. As such the term anti-entrapment is PAL Card goes smart incorrect and the term secondary guarding should be adopted by the industry. IPAF has launched a Smart PAL Card (Powered Access Licence), Kevin Minton, CPA director and chairman of the SFPSG, said: “The unanimous available in different languages, which is machine-readable. The Smart decision of this group, who represent all the key industry stakeholders, PAL Card looks the same as the standard PAL Card (which will continue demonstrates how important this change to more accurate terminology is. to be issued and accepted on site) except it is embedded with a data The aim of the group is to agree on how to ensure the safe use of aerial work chip and marked by a wireless icon. All data stored on the card, such as platforms in construction and we hope re-naming will make it clearer for the operator name, number and categories trained in, will also remain managers and operators on site.” printed on to the card. Chris Wraith, IPAF technical officer, added: “The term ‘anti-entrapment’ A card reader fitted in an aerial lift can be set up to recognise certain data implies that the use of these devices will prevent entrapment, even which determines whether or not the machine can be operated. This data though it is recognised that there is no single solution to prevent overhead includes whether or not the operator is trained, crushing incidents from occurring. A reduction in serious incidents will to what level and in which machine categories. only come about by the combined efforts of operators, site management, No additional personal contact details are hire companies and contained within the card. Using a Smart PAL manufacturers working Card along with a reader device allows control towards improvements of machine access and thus improves site and this re-naming is a step safety. Site managers can use the system to in this direction. Secondary ensure that only correctly trained operators guarding is a much more can operate aerial lifts or mastclimbing work accurate term based on platforms. They can also track who has used sound reasoning that which machine for how long, and prevent describes this equipment An IPAF fraudulent use. Smart PAL and devices for what they Card are.” Smart PAL Cards have been tested extensively on multiple machines by operators on site. They can be read by virtually all Further guidance on the card readers and there are no restrictions on which smart card readers are prevention of entrapment used. Operators or companies can specify if they wish to be issued with a when using aerial lifts is Smart PAL Card or a standard PAL Card when booking courses with their available to download IPAF-approved training centre. from the ‘Publications’ section of www.ipaf.org. The validity of a card can be checked by using the online verification tool at: www.ipaf.org The Strategic Forum’s Best For more information on IPAF training and the PAL Card visit: Practice Guidance for MEWPs. www.ipaf.org/pal

Bristol regional meeting The Bristol regional meeting held at the end of November was hosted by Andy Pearson, managing director of Prolift Access. It featured excellent presentations by Brian Smith, HSE director from Midas Construction, on the UKCG MEWP Toolkit, and by Leigh Sparrow of the Vertikal Press on the economic sustainability of the access industry. Presentations from the regional meeting can be found at the ‘members only’ section of www.ipaf.org. IPAF regional meetings are a simple and effective way to learn about the industry and network with colleagues and business associates - for upcoming regional meetings visit: www.ipaf.org/events. (L-R) Brian Smith, Leigh Sparrow, Andy Pearson with Chris Wraith and Giles Councell of IPAF.

December/January 2014 cranes & access 61 62 cranes & access December/January 2014 Another year... c&a PASMA focus Another record 65,000 people successfully completed PASMA training courses last year, equipping them to use mobile towers and low-level work platforms such as podiums or pulpits safely and productively. In comparison, the association achieved what was then a new record of 45,000 in 2009, a modest increase to 47,000 in 2010 and a step-change increase to 55,000 in 2011. In 2012, training numbers went up yet again reaching just over 60,000 by the end of the year. Courses on offer from the national network of PASMA approved training centres include the industry standard Towers for Users, Towers for Managers, Low Level Access, Combined Low Level & Towers for Users and Work at Height Essentials. A number of new courses will also be announced during 2014. For more details on PASMA courses visit: www. PASMA records its highest yearly training numbers pasma.co.uk.

PASMA and SELECT agree partnership PAS 250 low level standard PASMA has entered into a new partnership agreement with Scotland’s Since the launch of the PASMA-sponsored PAS 250 specification, electrical trade association SELECT in order to make professional tower which has set minimum standards for low-level work platforms to training more accessible to SELECT’s members. Delegates who complete help keep users safe, it has attracted considerable attention. PASMA’s working at height training through this partnership will receive Until now, designs for low-level work platforms have been developed in a unique PASMA card with the SELECT logo printed on to it. the absence of any formal standard, and although many are perfectly safe PASMA’s managing director, Peter Bennett said: “Electrical contractors work for use, aspects of some products could be significantly improved by regularly at height. We are delighted that this agreement will benefit both adherence to a properly developed standard. organisations by giving SELECT’s contractors an easy route to training and PAS 250 meets this need, establishing minimum safety and performance allowing PASMA members to get more involved in an industry that will benefit criteria for low-level work platforms. Developed by the UK national from their expertise.” standards body BSI, PAS 250 has established the requirements for Based just outside of Edinburgh, SELECT has some 1,200 member companies low-level work platforms, including podiums and pulpits. It outlines the covering the whole of Scotland. Acting as the voice of the electrotechnical requirements for any single-use low-level platforms which have one industry in Scotland it speaks for around 80 percent of electrical contractors working platform, side protection, a maximum working height of less than ranging from large contractors to one-man operations. 2.5 metres and a maximum platform capacity of 150kg. The standard also sets out requirements for materials, design loads, dimensions, strength Trade associations PASMA and SELECT have and stability tests, marking and user instructions. entered into a new partnership agreement. Anne Hayes, head of market development for governance and risk at BSI, said: “Without safety guidelines to follow, there is a risk that an inferior 2014 Exhibition dates product design may reach the market and end up in the workplace. PAS 250 can safeguard potential As part of the Access Industry Forum (AIF), PASMA will be represented users working at height and help minimise at a number of health and safety events during 2014. These will include accidents in the workplace.” the Health & Safety Event, 11-13th March, at the NEC, Birmingham and the Safety & Health Expo and IOSH Conference, 17-19th June, at ExCeL BSI’s PAS 250 specification can be obtained in East London. from PASMA’s online shop. A landmark AIF Working at Height Twitter Symposium is also planned for 2014, where business and industry will have the opportunity to submit questions and queries about As a PASMA member, if you all aspects of working at height. These will then have an interesting or unusual be answered by the relevant member organisation story to tell about towers and of the Forum. The date for this event will be tower training, please send it to www.pasma.co.uk announced later this year. [email protected]

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A collapsible hard hat c&a innovations

Measuring 10cmx10cmx1cm the pocket sized pouch offers a discreet and hygienic means to urinate Toyo Safety’s new collapsible hard hat The pocket sized toilet Japanese safety equipment manufacturer Toyo Safety has developed Portable urinating device company Shewee has developed Peebol, a a safety hard hat which can be collapsed when not in use to a more new pocket sized pouch that allows men, women to urinate anytime and compact, transportable and storable shape. anywhere. Although one of the more peculiar innovations we have ever Initially designed in case of an earthquake or natural disaster, the Bloom featured, Peebol might be ideal for tower crane operators who spend hard hat can expand from its collapsed shape, which measures 88mm wide, extended periods of time in the cab and who do not have easy access to 345mm long and 145mm high, in less than 30 seconds by pulling on a cord a more conventional method. attached to the back of the helmet. Once pulled its adaptable panels expand Available for purchase in packs of eight, the Peebol pouches are said to be and lock in place and an adjustable chin strap drops down from the crown easy to use, discreet and hygienic. Once unrolled, absorbent granules inside of the helmet. Weighing just 450g and certified to the Ministry of Health and the pouch convert fluid into biodegradable spill-proof gel, allowing the odour Labour and Welfare protection cap standard, the hard hat is available in a free pouches to be sealed and reused until it reaches its one litre capacity. range of colours including white, grey, orange and yellow. Once full the pouches can be easily and environmentally disposed of in a bin. 360˚ work platform US masonry specialist Lombardi & Son Masonry is working with Diversified The Bloom hard hat comes in a range of colours Once positioned against a vertical Product Development to commercialise an structure the platform’s hydraulic aerial work platform which the company sides can be adjusted claims will be the first to provide easy 360 degree access around a Oerlikon transmission vertical structure. Conceived by company owner Don Lombardi, the Lombardi Lift was originally designed to provide a more efficient way for for hybrid vehicles masons to work around four sides of a chimney. Oerlikon Graziano, a division of Swiss drive, gearing and transmission The platform mounts to a regular boom – either a boom lift, telehandler specialist Oerlikon Drive Systems, has announced details of a new or crane – and features an open front and two hydraulically 460mm side hybrid six-speed Automated Manual Transmission (AMT) - OGeco. platforms that can be adjusted hydraulically. Once the sides are adjusted a Designed to provide torque infill from an electric motor during gear changes, folding platform and guardrails close the open side, completely encircling the the company claims the new transmission is more cost effective, lighter structure. The product can then be used to provide 360 degree access around and efficient than Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) alternatives and provides vertical structures such as chimneys, steel columns, power poles, or trees. seamless shift benefits. OGeco supports different drivetrain layouts to It can also be used as a conventional platform or configured into an ‘L’ shape provide a range extender drive for plug-in hybrid vehicles, torque infill, allowing it to be used on building corners. The unit can be fully self-contained electric boost and KERS performance benefits. Regeneration is also possible. with its own power and hydraulic system, or powered hydraulically by Oerlikon Graziano head of automotive design Roberto Gay, said: “The hybrid the machine supplying the boom, depending on the user’s preference or unit is designed for high performance vehicles with transaxle transmission application. configuration, suitable for front- and rear-wheel drive applications. This The company said the Lombardi Lift can be technology is able to provide an innovative breakthrough as manufacturers used in place of staging, scaffolding and seek reduced fuel consumption and improved Co2 emissions.” climbing, and allows users to work around a structure without the need to reposition The OGeco has been designed the platform. In addition, when the platform to provide torque infill from an electric motor during is configured completely around a structure gear changes they will not have to work through or over The devices’s folding platform an internal guardrail, making the work area and guardrails can then be closed more accessible. completely encircling the structure To contact any of these companies click on the ‘Access & Lifting Directory’ section of www.vertikal.net, where you will find direct links to the companies’ web sites for up to 12 weeks after publication. To have your company’s new product or service featured in this section, please send in all information along with images via e-mail to: [email protected] with ‘Innovations’ typed in the subject box. enquiries

December/January 2014 cranes & access 65 Exclusively in the UK from iapsgroup.com Liebherr c&a books & models LR 1600/2 Self-installing the tracks The Liebherr LR 1600/2 Crawler Crane can lift a maximum of 600 tonnes at a radius of 11 metres and can be configured with a main boom, luffing jib and derrick boom. This 1:50 scale model by NZG handrails and platforms give a busy comes in a very large box with look. The operator’s cab is high the many beautifully wrapped quality with a good interior and it Boom sections have excellent geometry and protected parts allowing a can tilt. large model around two metres The boom and jib sections are of a tall, to be built. There is a good high quality and are pinned together instruction booklet, although it with tiny brass nuts and bolts which does not cover every detail and provide a good connection. The building and reeving the model boom butt section includes a couple takes several hours, but it is well of winches and there are walkway worth the effort. grilles and metal access platforms Sadly like many such models, which give a realistic look. Sections there is no information about have internal bracing and jib the real crane, and this feels like sections fit inside the boom sections an opportunity missed for the to replicate economic transport manufacturer. loads. The track frames are removable Metal sheaves are used throughout, and the model can be posed self- and the geometry of the parts and installing them using the cylinder on the built model are excellent. The the A-frame. The quality of the metal ballast carrier is well engineered and track pads is really good. The clean is detailed with access platforms lines of the crane superstructure and ladders. Two hook blocks are are modelled well, and at the boom provided and the large heavy lift foot there are hydraulic hoses with hook is also modular in nature. All the slew motors, while the metal winches can be operated and they Really nice tracks have positive brakes.

Very realistic Perhaps the best feature of this profile model is that it can be configured in so many ways. It also splits down to make great transport loads. Erected, it can be built with many different combinations of boom and jib, and with or without the derrick and ballast carrier. NZG has produced another first class crawler crane model for Liebherr. It has excellent engineering, very good detail and high quality manufacture. It is available from the Liebherr webshop for €495. To read the full review of this model visit www.cranesetc.co.uk

Cranes Ect Model Rating Packaging (max 10) 9 Detail (max 30) 27 Features (max 20) 19 Quality (max 25) 23 Price (max 15) 12 Detailed ballast carrier Overall (max 100) 90

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Readers c&a letters

Dear Sir, As the HSE does not have the resources or staff to police the full edict of LOLER in the implementation of method statements from hires, would it not make sense Modulift beam failure to have the CPA lobby government to legislate that all Here is a typical example of the difference between quality CPA crane hire contracts can only be undertaken with training/VOCs versus the cheapest quote. Time and time a copy of the customers method statement being produced up front, before the hire commences with a again we hear and see major companies taking the copy being attached to the hire agreement for the cheapest quote to cut costs which will only result in operator to check when arriving on site. incompetent training. Major questions that corporations Glenn Churchill need to be asking training providers are how many people We responded: were deemed not yet competent on their certificate of

competence/or VOCs to find out if they are another tick Many thanks for this comment Glenn, It makes absolute sense, especially IF the CPA made this mandatory for its and flick, “she’ll be right mate” provider. members. The only thing against it is that the HSE rightly says that the method statement does not have to be in writing and has said that it would rather have a good Until this practise changes incidents like the above and method statement developed and discussed between many more will continue to happen also putting countless everyone on site, than a piece of paper. Having said this, IF there is an accident the HSE always demands to see lives at risk for the sake of saving a few dollars. If certain paperwork, and if something does go wrong it will automatically doubt the existence of any verbal method bodies took the time to work out the costings of a fatality statement. or serious incident/accident, they would soon realise this is Can we use this in our letters page? Either with your name OR if you prefer anonymously? not the path that any corporation should be heading down. Best Regards Jaimie Leggo Chief Executive Officer

Australian High Risk Training Mr Churchill wrote back: Put in the letters page by all means and yes I agree that there is no specific need for a written version of a method of work statement, but under LOLER this is the best way of showing that risks are being managed and understood Thank You and when customers ask crane companies to provide a ettersThe following letter was received in the form of a contract Lift service nothing short of a paper document Christmas Card will suffice, so goose and gander spring to mind, and something about horses and gates, if you catch my drift. So in essence the HSE yet again preach but do not practice as is often seen to be the case. So lobbying them may be the answer, and yes I can say that I have not seen a method statement on all jobs but you have a sense that some clients have the necessary expertise and you can also see when you are surrounded by clowns and this is when I ask for the necessary paperwork albeit to the answer “what’s that”. L

I rest my case m’lord.

Glenn Churchill

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Keep up the pressure John J. ‘Jack’ Shaughnessy 1926 - 2013 Dear Sir, John J. ‘Jack’ Shaughnessy, retired president of Shaughnessy & Ahern and Shaughnessy Crane Congratulations on dedicating so much space and resources to the issue of poor outrigger set up, wanted to say keep up the good work, but would Service, passed away on Wednesday, November rather you don’t disclose my name – not sure it would go down too well 27th, just before his 87th birthday, following with my employers, a large civil engineer. I frequently work with cranes, a short illness. Predeceased by his wife Mary all of them hired in complete with drivers. The larger lifts we do on our in 2008, he leaves behind sons Stephen, Jack main projects are almost never an issue, everything is planned out well Junior, James and Michael, daughters Susan (Harrison), Linda (LeRoy) before hand and we go to great lengths to ensure that the ground can and Elizabeth (Whalen). Along with 17 grandchildren and seven great- support the worst case outrigger loadings provided by the crane supplier. grandchildren. However, all of this is often forgotten when a crane is called in for a The second generation of the Boston-based Shaughnessy crane and routine lift such as unloading unplanned materials or equipment and rigging family, he joined the Navy from high school in 1944 and was a placing small equipment onto an upper floor where a hoist cannot be member of the Naval Aviation programme. After the war he joined his used. I am frequently surprised at how unconcerned some drivers are brother Al in the family rigging and moving company. about the ground conditions and taking precautions by spreading the load. In the early 1960s Shaughnessy bought the company’s first hydraulic Please don’t misunderstand me some are very good and drivers working crane - a one man crane - and pushed to change union rules that for the larger crane hirers seem to be more aware. insisted all cranes have a ‘greaser’ or second man. “I thought it might These sorts of lift usually occur on smaller sites, although I have seen be helpful to supplement my income, he said at the time” That new them on some major sites too. And one of the worst offenders are lorry business expanded dramatically. Something he put down to luck, but loader/Hiab drivers I would say that less than half of them ever even was more due to foresight. Over the years he was instrumental in consider getting out spreader plates and if you ask them if they could ending restrictive practices for small hydraulic cranes and built up a please put plates under the legs the chance is you will get attitude. I am amazed that there are not more accidents with these cranes! substantial business in its own right. He retired in the mid to late 1990’s and Shaughnessy Crane Service Also love the slogan in the comment Mark – Don’t be a prat…… was acquired by NES in 1998, which retained the aerial lift and general Keep up the good work and don’t let up equipment business, but sold the crane operations on to Amquip. Name and company withheld as requested In addition to running the highly successful crane and access business, he was well known for his charitable work in and around the Boston Recovering a U-Boat area. The funeral and mass was celebrated in Saint Elizabeth Church, Dear Sir, Milton on Saturday, November 30th. I’m an amateur military historian from Poland. Could you give me information how big are the chances to take from the water the wreck of a German submarine U-20 discovered in 80 feet/24m of water off the coast of the Turkish city of Zonguldak. Displacement of this ship is Man falls after bus hits lift 279 – 329 tons. Do you know if some Turkish company has a Dear Sir, vessel crane with potential to do this task? How I wanted to comment anonymously on the above story, much could cost operation like this? because I work for an AWP manufacturer and my comment comes from me personally and not my company. With Respect It could have been that the operator was in fact wearing a Mariusz Kope ć fall arrest harness however you need at least 5.5 metres to Sosnowiec 28.12.2013 safely deploy it to its full length without hitting the ground. A double decker bus is roughly 4.5 metres tall, and looking at the photos, I’d say that the platform height was around 3.5 metres on impact: Not enough distance to rely on a fall

We did a little of our own research in to this subject, and arrest lanyard. found that the original first world war U-20 patrolled the The correct harness, if I’m accurate with the impact height, British Isles and made the news when it sunk the RMS would have been a short lanyard, designed to prevent Lusitania in May 1915. It grounded off the coast of ejection at low heights. The operator should then switch Denmark and blown up by the crew. The boat that Mr over to a fall arrest lanyard at 5.5 metres above the surface Kopeć is referring to is a type IIB U-boat. This U-20 was below. built in 1935, by Germaniawerft of Kiel as ‘werk’ 550. She was commissioned on 1 February 1936. During World I often seen people working at ‘low’ heights with a fall War II, she went on 16 patrols, sinking 16 ships totalling arrest lanyard that is simply too long to save them in the 39,637 GRT and damaging one more of 1,846 GRT. event of a fall. This could be one such case. Of course, not She was scuttled on the 10th September 1944 in the Black withstanding all of the above, he clearly should not have Sea as Mr Kopeć points out and was located in 2008 by been operating the platform over the road Selçuk Kolay, a Turkish marine engineer. Regards, We will pass on any ideas or suggestions. Ed Name withheld as requested

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Platform Service & Repair (PSR), part of the IAPS Group is currently in the process of recruiting experienced Mobile Engineers to service, maintain and repair powered access equipment located in and around the Yorkshire, Midlands and Mid Wales area. This is an excellent opportunity to work for the UK’s largest service provider for powered access platforms and lifting equipment. Candidates must be able to demonstrate electro, hydraulic and mechanical maintenance skills, and will have previous experience working with plant & machinery within the construction industry. All relevant accreditations are desired. Good interpersonal skills, flexibility and understanding the importance of excellent customer service are essential to this role. The successful candidates will be required to work as part of a team and demonstrate a can do attitude. We offer a competitive salary and company van, together with bonus and company pension scheme. IAPS Group is the UK’s leading specialist supplier of equipment and support services to owners and operators of powered access platforms. www.iapsgroup.com

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Haulotte UK is seeking an experienced Powered Access Technical person to provide telephone support & remote fault diagnosis to its UK customers. Based at Haulotte’s Head Office in Telford, Shropshire, the Technical Advisor will be the first point of contact for customer technical enquiries over the telephone to diagnose machine issues and advise customers on necessary repairs. Activities may include consulting hard copy or electronic resources, checking machines on site and suggesting multiple possible solutions for the customer to try to solve their technical issues. Where necessary, the Technical Advisor will also coordinate Field Engineer intervention to complete diagnosis / repair on site. Applicants should possess strong technical skills gained in a powered access environment, as well as be well organised and an excellent communicator. Required Skills: • Good level of literacy and high level of numeracy, with minimum GCSE Maths & English (grade C or above) • Formal Engineering qualification (eg. BTEC / NVQ) • Significant experience in construction / plant equipment diagnosis & repair • Technical knowledge & understanding of Haulotte products • Able to work independently and as part of a team • Ability to clearly express technical information, both orally and written, clearly and concisely and is able to understand and explain technical terms commonly in use. • Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues and customers. • Ability to contribute to the adaptation of services and systems to meet customers’ needs and helps to identify ways of improving standards. • Ability to create realistic plans to achieve own deadlines and objectives, effectively managing workload - prioritising own work and that of others. • Ability to distinguish between the need to make a decision and when to defer, also contributes to the decision making of others by providing relevant information and opinions. • Ability to analyse problems to identify their cause, considering all possible solutions to identify those which offer wider benefits. • Ability to establish basic facts by carrying out appropriate enquiries, identifying and using a range of sources and types of data to produce full and accurate reports and or accounts of situations. Competitive package is offered for this exciting opportunity to join a highly committed team working in a fast paced, customer focussed environment.

Contact for responses: [email protected]

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Spierings Operator seeks work

Currently Midlands, UK based

I am a fully experienced CPCS Spierings 6&7 Axle operator with 18 years lifting industry experience. I am looking for 7 day a week working & willing to relocate home or abroad for the right company.

Michael Brown [email protected] RECRUITMENT. • RECRUITMENT • RECRUITMENT RECRUITMENT • RECRUIT MENT RECRUITMENT.

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