C&A 13.8 p1-33:Layout 1 11/24/11 2:39 PM Page 1 www.vertikal.net www.vertikal.net November 2011 Vol. 13 issue 8 Mastclimbers & hoists Loader cranes London Lift and Tower Access Cranes Showcase ...World’s biggest flat top crane....Skako sells Denka....Gardner Denver quits access... C&A 13.8 p1-33:Layout 1 11/24/11 2:39 PM Page 2 C&A 13.8 p1-33:Layout 1 11/24/11 2:39 PM Page 3 On the cover: Hydro Mobile supplied the mastclimbers for the renovation of the Church of Our Lady Immaculate, Guelph, Ontario, c&a one of the finest examples of religious French Gothic contents Revival in all of Canada. Comment 5 Lift and Access 17 Mastclimbers News 6 Showcase Gardner Denver to quit access market, Lavendon Symposium 37 buys Blue Sky and unveils the SkySiren, Skanska The first Lift and Access Showcase and UK demands anti crush devices, AFI introduces Symposium was held in Scottsdale, Arizona the Sanctuary Zone, Zoomlion looks for earlier this month. The event acquisitions, New Dutch crane rental group, JLG included an expanded ships 1,000th Toucan 10E, Barry Barnes retires, product Showcase, crane Mammoet PTC claims world record, Jost appoints Rodeo and a conference. We LTC, Tadano launches four new RTs, Nacanco report on the event and the Loader cranes 29 goes with Socage, Crowland installs crane main new product launches, including the new road test rig, Financials round-up, Palfinger Genie compact electric RT scissors and a new launches new loader cranes, trailer scissor lift. New Chinese cranes from Terex, Havator acquires Norrlandskranar. London Tower Cranes 43 One tower crane manufacturer currently in the process of changing its direction and product line-up is German-based Jost Cranes. A few months ago it sold its flat top designs to Lift and Access show 37 Zoomlion and is now concentrating on its luffers. Cranes & Access met up Alexander Jost and its new UK/Ireland dealer, London Mastclimbers Tower Crane Hire & Sales (LTC). and hoists 17 The mastclimber and hoist market in the UK IPS 10th is a relatively close market with only a anniversary 47 handful of players. We profile manufacturer IPS – Independent Parts & Service – has just Alimak Hek UK, and mastclimber rental celebrated its 10th anniversary. Mark Darwin company Adastra, two companies visited the Telford based company to find out vastly experienced in this sector. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Cranes & Access is published eight times a year about its past, present and future. and is available on payment of an annual subscription of £40.00. If you wish to subscribe, please send a crossed cheque made payable to The Vertikal Press Ltd to: Subscriptions, The Vertikal Press, PO Box 6998, Brackley, Northants NN13 5WY. Address changes should also be Loader cranes 29 sent to this address. Please include the address label from a recent issue regulars with all correspondence and allow 3 months for changes to be effective. We take a look at the latest SUBSCRIBE ONLINE AT: product developments Books and Models 51 www.vertikal.net/en/journal_subscription.php including the new, BULK DISCOUNTS: These are available to companies wishing to take ALLMI Focus 54 out multiple subscriptions. Please contact the subscriptions manager more sophisticated for more details. overload/stability Training 57 Tel: +44 (0)8448 155900 Fax:+44 (0)1295 768223 systems, interview Atlas E-mail: [email protected] IPAF Focus 59 Kran & Bühne: The Vertikal Press also publishes a German magazine Crane owner Fil Filipov which deals with the same issues as Cranes & Access, but is written for and take a brief look at the PASMA 61 German users and buyers. Details available on request. latest new product launches. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of information pub- Innovations 63 lished in Cranes & Access, the Editor and Publisher can accept no re- sponsibility for inaccuracies or omissions. Views expressed in articles Letters 64 are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the In the next C&A Editor or Publisher. Material published in Cranes & Access is pro- tected under international copyright law and may not be reproduced In the next issue of Cranes & Access out January 2012 What’s on 69 without prior permission from the publishers. we have the annual Rental rate guide, a look back at events of 2011 and feature Heavy lift cranes and Truck mounted lifts. On-line directory 74 November 2011 cranes & access 3 C&A 13.8 p1-33:Layout 1 11/24/11 2:39 PM Page 4 C&A 13.8 p1-33:Layout 1 11/24/11 2:39 PM Page 5 c&a cranes comment Even safer platforms… Let me say at the start that using an &access aerial work platform is almost invariably The Vertikal Press For users & buyers of lifting equipment the safest and most efficient method PO box 6998 Brackley NN13 5WY. UK November 2011 Vol. 13 issue 8 of working at height. Statistically Tel: +44(0)8448 155900 Fax: +44(0)1295 768223 email: [email protected] accidents of any type involving aerial lifts web: www.vertikal.net Editors: are very rare. Accidents in which an operator is crushed against an Leigh Sparrow In Germany: overhead object are rarer still - perhaps just four or five a year Mark Darwin Vertikal Verlag in North America, Europe and Australia combined. Sundgaualle 15, D-79114, Freiburg, Germany Associate Editors: Boom and trailer lift manufacturer Niftylift launched its Tel: 0761 8978660 Fax: 0761 8866814 email: [email protected] Rüdiger Kopf (Freiburg) ‘anti-crushing’ system - SiOPS (sustained involuntary operation web: www.vertikal.net Alexander Ochs (Freiburg) prevention system) - more than two years ago - a possible Germany, Scandinavia, response to concerns expressed by Balfour Beatty in the UK Austria and Switzerland Sales & customer support: and BHP in Australia? Karlheinz Kopp, Vertikal Verlag, Pam Penny Sundgaualle 15,D-79114, Freiburg, Germany Just a few weeks ago Skanska UK took matters a step further Tel: +49 (0)761 89786615 Karlheinz Kopp Fax:+49 (0)761 8866814 Clare Engelke saying that as ‘bolt-on’ anti-crushing devices are now available, email: [email protected] all boom lifts it rents after January 3rd must have these devices Italy Production: fitted. At the same time two new safety systems developed by Fabio Potestà, Mediapoint, Corte Lambruschini, Nicole Engesser rental companies - AFI’s Sanctuary Zone (cage) and Lavendon’s Corso Buenos Aires 8, V Piano-Interno 7, SkySiren (alarm) - were launched (see page 6 for details). I-16129 Genova, Italy Subscriptions: Tel: 010 570 4948 Fax: 010 553 0088 While it is not a good idea for contractors to make design changes email: mediapointsrl.it Lee Miller or modifications, it clearly shows a frustration that the industry is The Netherlands Hans en Anneke Aarse Publisher: dragging its heels over this statistically rare but obviously Oranjestraat 167 important issue. NL 3295 AS - ‘s-Gravendeel Leigh Sparrow Tel:+31-78 673 4007 What should be remembered is that some crushing incidents are Mobile:+31(0) 630421042 email: [email protected] caused by the boom being driven over uneven ground resulting UK and all other areas in a rapid impact, in which case only a cage system might Pam Penny save the operator. PO box 6998 Brackley NN13 5WY. UK Tel: +44(0)8448 155900 The Vertikal Press Ltd. MEMBERS OF If contractors or rental companies believe these systems are email: [email protected] effective and necessary, they must fit them to all platforms to Design & Artwork by: avoid prosecutions from those having an accident on a bp design Ltd. Tel: 01707 642141 non-modified unit. email: [email protected] web: bpdesign.info If the risk of crushing is so serious (and what about the more ISSN: 1467-0852 probable risk of overhead electrocution?) why are rental companies © Copyright The Vertikal Press Limited 2011 doing the development work? Surely it is the manufacturers’ responsibility as it was with pot-hole protection for scissor lifts in the 1990s. This would also eliminate interference issues with the machine’s existing electrical and safety systems, not to mention CE documentation. Letters, emails, faxes and It would be nice to think that this influx of extra safety systems The Vertikal Press also publishes: phone calls are welcome and is just about making operators safer. Sadly I think it is more should be sent to: liability driven, but so long as they work without interfering with the machine’s operation then it is a positive development. The Editor, But there is no getting away from the fact that this is an upside down development process. cranes & access, PO Box 6998, Brackley NN13 5WY, UK Tel: +44(0)8448 155900 Mark Darwin Fax: +44(0)1295 768223 Please mail, email or fax any comments you may have, to the editor, email: [email protected] stating if we may publish them or not. November 2011 cranes & access 5 C&A 13.8 p1-33:Layout 1 11/24/11 2:39 PM Page 6 news c&a Comansa breaks flat top record Spanish tower crane manufacturer Linden Comansa has announced the world’s largest flat top tower crane with up to 64 tonnes capacity. The new LC3000 range comprises two base models - the 30LC 1100 and 30LC 1400 - available in three different variants rated at 32, 48 or 64 tonnes. Maximum capacity at the 80 metre jib tip ranges from 9.5 to 15 tonnes The LC3000 is a larger more modern and standard version of the 1996 LC 8952 depending on model. An LC 3000 jib section in working format The biggest challenge that Comansa The jib sections are big - the largest to reach 198 metres.