www.vertikal.net www.vertikal.net CrawlerCrawler December/January 2010 Vol. 11 issue 9 cranescranes AnnualAnnual RentalRental raterate guideguide Truck mounted lifts A look back at 2009 ..City crane from Spierings...Shaughnessy takes over at Skyjack...Terex quits mining.. On the cover: Two of the world's largest truck mounted platforms - the 103 metre Palfinger WT1000 - were used to inspect and repair HMS Victory, the flagship of & the commander-in-chief Naval Home c a Command as well as a living contents museum to the Georgian navy, in Portsmouth's Historic Dockyards. 16 Truck mounted lifts Comment 5 Rental rate News 6 guide 37 Shaughnessy heads Skyjack, Manitex acquires It's that time of year again to report on crane, Load King, Terex quits mining, SED cancels 2010 access and telehandler rental rates in the UK show, management changes at Hewden, and Ireland. The current economic situation Spierings launches City Boy, Italy delays is reflected in the general poor state of EN12999-2009, Cypriot takes Ukrainian crane most rental rates. But is there light at the company, Haulotte pulls out of Bauma, HGV end of the tunnel this year? We reveal all in exemptions to go, HSS adds Liftpod, GTK1100 our eight page survey. 2525 Crawler cranes arrives in China, IPAF adds fire fighting course, 29 Versalift launches all 2009 Review 46 electric lifts in We take an extensive look at one of the most Copenhagen, New unforgettable years in living memory - the Altec crawler crane, ups, the downs and the Geda pulls out of downright weird - mixed in Sweden, Sumitomo buys into Sunstate, RB with the varying fortunes of cranes relocated, New UK Access Alliance, Law the crane, access and firm files suit against Terex, IPS -Snorkel JV in telehandler businesses. Australia, ACM launches new Panda 20. 46 The 2009 review Truck mounted lifts 16 With truck mounted regulars platforms currently performing better than most Books & Models 54 other sectors, we highlight the essential questions you Innovations 55 need to ask when buying a ALLMI Focus 57 truck mounted platform. We also interview Mark Training 58 SUBSCRIPTIONS: Cranes & Access is published eight times a year and is available on payment of an annual subscription of £40.00. Carrington, managing IPAF Focus 61 If you wish to subscribe, please send a crossed cheque made payable director of King Vehicle Engineering, distributor to The Vertikal Press Ltd to: Subscriptions, The Vertikal Press, PO Box PASMA 63 6998, Brackley, Northants NN13 5WY. Address changes should also be of Palfinger Wumag and GSR and travel to Italy sent to this address. 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Unusually for the Comment I have included a picture which helps illustrate & two things - the fact that everything is access not always as it appears and that simple The Vertikal Press For users & buyers of lifting equipment PO box 6998 Brackley NN13 5WY. UK December/January 2010 Vol. 11 issue 9 actions can have dire consequences. Tel: +44(0)8448 155900 Fax: +44(0)1295 768223 email: [email protected] The wise-guy in the States who put up this 'Christmas Decoration' of Editors: web: www.vertikal.net a man supposedly hanging from the Leigh Sparrow In Germany: gutter because his ladder had fallen away Mark Darwin Vertikal Verlag while erecting Christmas lights, had to take Sundgaualle 15, D-79114, it down after just two days because of the Freiburg, Germany Associate Editors: Tel: 0761 8978660 Fax: 0761 8866814 risk of causing car crashes in the street as Rüdiger Kopf (Freiburg) email: [email protected] drivers rubber-necked and of real accidents web: www.vertikal.net Alexander Ochs (Freiburg) as 'rescuers' - some in their mid 70s - tried Germany, Scandinavia, Andrew Klinaichev (Moscow) Austria and Switzerland to right and climb the ladder to help the Karlheinz Kopp, Vertikal Verlag, hanging 'man'. Sundgaualle 15,D-79114, Freiburg, Germany Sales & customer support: Tel: +49 (0)761 89786615 Pam Penny I am sure that you will agree, this is a classic ruse and we are all Fax:+49 (0)761 8866814 Karlheinz Kopp smiling now. However, this simple, innocuous wheeze illustrates a email: [email protected] Clare Engelke far more serious issue - people jumping to the wrong conclusion and Italy rushing into something without thinking it through. Fabio Potestà, Mediapoint, Corte Lambruschini, Production: A bit like the rental rates in the UK at the moment then….. Corso Buenos Aires 8, V Piano-Interno 7, Nicole Engesser I-16129 Genova, Italy 2010. A new year, a new decade - yet still the same madness. One Tel: 010 570 4948 Fax: 010 553 0088 email: mediapointsrl.it Publisher: of the hardest years for a long time, was made significantly worse by rental companies fighting each other to put equipment out way The Netherlands Leigh Sparrow Hans Aarse below sensible levels. 39 Seringenstraat, 3295 RN, S-Gravendeel, The Netherlands And it is not just the cowboys that are guilty - oh no. Many of the Tel:+31-78 673 4007 Mobile:+31(0) 630421042 national hirers also appear to have lost sight of the financial basics email: [email protected] that ensure the long-term future of a company - such as a company Russia The Vertikal Press Ltd. cross hiring a machine and putting it out for less than it is paying for Cranes&Access Russia MEMBERS OF DM Publishing 127287 Pocc the hire… Moscow tel. +7 (495) 685 94 28 This issue of Cranes & Access features our annual rental rate survey fax +7 (495) 685 94 29 which, as you might have guessed, does not make good reading. e-mail: [email protected] The comments received with the survey forms show an over-riding UK and all other areas anger at the lack of strategy from many companies that ought to Pam Penny PO box 6998 Brackley NN13 5WY. UK know better. Tel: +44(0)8448 155900 Perhaps the company in Scotland has got it right (see letter on page email: [email protected] 38) offering a retail type price-match guarantee in an attempt to Design & Artwork by: take rates out of the equation and force the competition to do bp design Ltd. Tel: 01707 642141 Fax: 01707 646806 something different. email: [email protected] The industry all too often follows like a flock of nervous sheep, down ISSN: 1467-0852 the easy path of price cutting, over reacting to anecdotal rate gossip © Copyright The Vertikal Press Limited 2010 and dismissing their ability to lead or stand apart. The problem is Letters, emails, faxes and that this not only results in the heavily indebted and inefficient The Vertikal Press also publishes: phone calls are welcome and companies going to the wall, but also drags everyone else down as well, taking years to recover. should be sent to: Like the dummy in the Christmas decoration, we all need to hang in there, but why not try to stop and think before following the jittery The Editor, sheep down the path to destruction? cranes & access, Happy New Year! PO Box 6998, Brackley NN13 5WY, UK Mark Darwin Tel: +44(0)8448 155900 Please mail, email or fax any comments you may have, to the editor, Fax: +44(0)1295 768223 stating if we may publish them or not. email: [email protected] December/January 2010 cranes & access 5 news c&a Shaughnessy heads Steve Shaughnessy Skyjack Steve Shaughnessy has been appointed president of Canadian aerial lift manufacturer Skyjack, following Ken McDougall's secondment to Linamar's Mexican power-train operations. Shaughnessy quit his role as managing director of Loxam UK in August. He moved from his home town of Boston, USA to the UK when he joined Ashtead in 2004. Prior to this he was chief executive of Shaughnessy Equipment and then chief operating officer of American NES Rentals. Shaughnessy and his family will move to Canada by mid-March. As deputy president of the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) he is also due to take over as president in March.