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www.vertikal.net £8 October 2005 Vol. 7 issue 6 SpiderSpider LiftsLifts P30 New Age P22 Crawler Cranes CPACPA cranecrane meetingmeeting P40 P36 APEXAPEX overviewoverview The LARGEST UK CIRCULATION of any lifting equipment magazine BIGGER, BETTER, AND BACK ON TOP. The boom is back at Snorkel. Month after month, growing numbers of customers worldwide are discovering the new Snorkel quality and time-proven reliability. We’ve improved everything from our operating systems and technical services to our paint, our polish, even our pricing. And we’re proud that over the past year, Snorkel has been #1 in the aerial industry for quality and on-time delivery. Keep your eye on Snorkel. The boom is definitely back. SnorkelSnorkel USA USASnorkel Europe Snorkel AustraliaSnorkel New SnorkelZeland New ZealandUK DISTRIBUTOR Snorkel Europe - APS Access SnorkelPlatforms Asia snorkelusa.comsnorkelusa.com snorkeleuro.comsnorkel.com.ausnorkel.com.au snorkel.com.auTel: +44 (0)snorkeleuro.com 1480 891251 • Fax: +44snorkelasia.com (0) 1480 891162 800.255.0317800.255.0317 • 785.989.3000 • 785.989.300031 0 73 613 61 69 2 04 9725 400064 6 368 9168 64 6 368 9168e-mail: [email protected] 31 0 73 613 69 04 • web: 65-96770885accessplatforms.co.uk on the cover: This issue features crawler mounted cranes and access equipment, we will award a prize of a bottle of champagne for the first three readers who can identify the piece of equipment running on these tracks. Employees of the manufacturer concerned are excluded. c&a Email [email protected] or fax one of our offices. contents Comment 5 The Spiders 22 Crawler cranes are on the move News 7 are multiplying 30 SGB quit alloy scaffold tower production, The crawler mounted self propelled boom lift Company fined £75,000 for crane accident, with outriggers, a product often known as a New products from Hiab and Palfinger, Fines Spider lift, is on the increase. Both in terms for fall from platform, Low profile hoist tower of the number of manufacturers producing helps improve productivity, Mini crane used them and the number of end users who are for glass cladding on hospital, Crane drops finding work for them. They offer some the tub, First telehandler driver award, Grove excellent solutions for difficult to get to opens new Italian plant. locations or for work on delicate surfaces. 31 Spider type lifts are multiplying Why Bother APEX 2005 36 with Bologna? 17 We review the recent We take a brief look at why you should APEX access equipment consider a visit to this years SAIE exhibition show held in Maastricht, in Italy, what is it all about? looking at the new products and news. We will supplement this review with an online photo Software 21 album on www.vertikal.nets. We talk to Kimberly Access and how it moved from manual invoicing systems to an integrated IT programme that saved it a great CPA crane deal over more complex programmes and yet till incorporates a sold rental software with meeting 40 over 5000 access professionals room for expansion without the need for an Ian Boughton reports on the recent CPA crane interests attended APEX last month in house IT manager. 46 meeting and highlights the topics Is this the dawning that were discussed. of a new age of the crawler crane? 22 Crawler cranes regulars are regaining popularity in the ALLMI training SUBSCRIPTIONS: Cranes & Access is published eight times a year UK and Ireland with attitude 43 and is available on payment of an annual subscription of £40.00. with new If you wish to subscribe, please send a crossed cheque made Ian Boughton visits TH White to learn first payable to The Vertikal Press Ltd to: Subscriptions, The Vertikal telescopic models hand about the ALLMI courses for Lorry Press, PO Box 6998, Brackley, Northants NN13 5WY. Address on the increase, while loader operators. He comes away with an changes should also be sent to this address. Please include the lattice boomed models address label from a recent issue with all correspondence and allow 3 interesting insight to what makes a good months for changes to be effective. are faster and easier operator and it is a great deal more than to erect than ever, they SUBSCRIBE ONLINE AT: just knowing how to use the crane. offer a strong alternative www.vertikal.net/en/journal_subsription to tower cranes or BULK DISCOUNTS: These are available to companies wishing to take out multiple subscriptions. Please contact the subscriptions mobiles on IPAF news 45 manager for more details. some projects. Tel: +44 (0)8707 740436 Fax:+44 (0)1295 768223 E-mail: [email protected] Innovations 47 Kran & Bühne: The Vertikal Press also publishes a German magazine which deals with the same issues as Cranes & Access, Will it fit but is written for German users and buyers. Details available on request. in here? 29 web links 48 While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of information The small self erecting tower crane is published in Cranes & Access, the Editor and Publisher can accept increasing in popularity in the UK and Ireland, no responsibility for inaccuracies or omissions. Views expressed in what’s on/ articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect we observe a few unusual installations that those of the Editor or Publisher. Material published in Cranes & solve particular problems of where to Access is protected under international copyright law and may not locate the crane. marketplace 49 be reproduced without prior permission from the publishers. October 2005 cranes & access 3 Your powered access expertise + IPAF membership = Greater market opportunity IPAF membership can bring introduction of worldwide you major benefits, whatever standards and how they are your involvement with the implemented country by country. powered access industry. • Our advice line, publications First of all, it tells your and bulletins, help keep you in Our Rental+award is again customers a lot about you. It touch with everything that is only available to IPAF rental lets them know you have the going on – and make sure you company members. This highest professional standards know how to respond to ensures that your customers – and reassures them that you technical, practical, can identify you as a are on top of today’s health commercial and legal specialist in powered access and safety standards. developments. rental – and that you have Because of our lobbying at • Our operator training is second independently audited levels national and international to none – and recognised of service support. levels, you have a stronger worldwide. Only IPAF IPAF is the world authority voice in all those issues members can offer this market in powered access. Find out that affect your business – leading training – now how membership can give from health and safety becoming essential for the use you the same authority in legislation to the of powered access equipment. the eyes of your customers. For full details of how IPAF membership can make a difference to your business: Tel: +44 (0)15395 62444 Fax: +44 (0)15395 64686 The world authority in powered access Email: [email protected] Or visit: www.ipaf.org www.ipaf.org IPAF Ltd, Bridge End Business Park, Milnthorpe LA7 7RH, UK. Also in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France and USA. & ccommenta cranes Worse than bureaucracy Martin Ainscough opened the CPA crane interest group meeting last month by highlighting the increasing burden of &access bureaucracy in the crane hire industry. The Vertikal Press For UK users & buyers of lifting equipment PO box 6998 Brackley NN13 5WY. UK October 2005 Vol. 7 issue 6 Bureaucracy is an overused word that’s Tel: +44(0)8707 740436 Fax: +44(0)1295 768223 email: [email protected] often applied to any government interference. In reality the problems so web: www.vertikal.net Editor: Leigh Sparrow labelled are often not caused by the government at all. In Germany: Vertikal Verlag Operator training for construction equipment is a good example, we have a Sundgaualle 15, D-79114, Sub/Associate Editors: Freiburg, Germany Ian Boughton situation where a group calling itself the Major Contractors Group (MCG), Tel: 0761 8978660 Fax: 0761 8866814 Rüdiger Kopf insists that everyone working on its members’ sites must, in theory, carry a email: [email protected] web: www.vertikal.net Jürgen Hildebrandt proof of training card from a programme affiliated to the CSCS/CPCS Germany, Scandinavia, registration scheme. The problem is that this body has its own vested Sales & customer support: Austria and Switzerland interests, which appear to hinge around generating as much cash as Karlheinz Kopp, Vertikal Verlag, Mike Posener Sundgaualle 15,D-79114, Freiburg, Germany Karlheinz Kopp possible rather than simply aiming to get more people properly trained. Tel: +49 (0)761 89786615 Fax:+49 (0)761 8866814 email: [email protected] Production: The fact that the MCG has insisted on a single record scheme, has made the Italy Nicole Engesser CSCS a virtual monopoly and the pace of affiliating other training programmes Fabio Potestà, Mediapoint, is pitifully slow. For example IPAF one of the most practical and respected Corte Lambruschini, Publisher: Corso Buenos Aires 8, V Piano-Interno 7, training programmes in operation, with well over 100,000 cardholders, is I-16129 Genova, Italy Leigh Sparrow Tel: 010 570 4948 Fax: 010 553 0088 still not “affiliated” to CSCS, why not? It is registered as “not affiliated” email: mediapointsrl.it which means that it is recognised by the MCG, at least for the moment. The Netherlands Allmi is not yet even “Not affiliated”! Hans Aarse 39 Seringenstraat, 3295 RN, The Vertikal Press Ltd. S-Gravendeel, The Netherlands MEMBERS OF The system has become so cumbersome that the percentage of card Tel:+31-78 673 4007 Mobile:+31-6 10 901037 carrying staff on MCG sites has stalled, way off of the targeted levels, email: [email protected] and in some quarters there is open rebellion against the scheme.