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First new Liebherr for Tonhout

UK crane company Tonhout Crane Hire has taken delivery of its first new Liebherr crane, a three axle 60 tonne LTM1060-3.1 All Terrain.

Based in Welwyn Garden City, the company has been in the crane rental business for almost 40 years and is a sister company of M and M Crane Hire of Uxbridge.

The new crane features a 48 metre main boom and 9.5mto 16 metre bi-fold swingaway extension, giving a maximum hook height of 63 metres and maximum radius of 48 metres. The specification includes 6x6x6 drive, Telma retarder and remote control unit for all superstructure functions.

Company owners, Maurice Tierney and sons Mark and Brian said the decision to purchase a new Liebherr was based on experience with a used Liebherr LTM1055-3.1 that it added to the fleet several years ago.

They have also ordered a Liebherr 50 tonne LTC1050-3.1 city type All Terrain crane with unique single elevating cab, for delivery to M and M later this year.

Link Belt moves into South Africa

Link-Belt has appointed Eqstra Industrial Equipment of South Africa as its distributor for Southern Africa.

The agreement covers 17 countries, including Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Eqstra will sell and market the full line of Link Belt cranes, and provide parts and service support for new and existing cranes throughout the region. The company is part of a Eqstra Holdings which is publicly traded and has a wide range of operations including car leasing and fleet management and Industrial fork truck sales in the UK through Impact Handling (UK) where it is the Cat forklift dealer. The equipment divisions are based in Johannesburg with outlets in a number of the countries that it covers.

The Industrial and heavy equipment division also distributes Toyota fork trucks, Broderson carry-deck cranes, Konecranes reachstackers and also lists Terex All Terrain, Rough Terrain and crawler cranes, although it is no longer listed as an official dealer.

Other divisions distribute Altec and Socage vehicle mounted aerial work platforms and Fassi loader cranes, while it also produces a couple of smaller articulated loader cranes of its own.

Link-Belt international sales manager Roy Burger said: “We believe that when you invest in a Link-Belt crane, you invest in outstanding customer support. As a result, we are delighted to enter into this agreement with Eqstra Heavy Equipment, whose philosophy of building lifetime partnerships with their customers underscores our vision to be a leader in customer service and satisfaction.”

First new crane for Highcliffe

Yorkshire crane rental company Highcliffe Engineering has taken delivery of its first new All Terrain crane – a 40 tonne ATF 40G-2.

The compact two axle crane features a 35.2 metre main boom plus a nine metre swingaway which can be offset by zero, 20 and 40 degrees.

Highcliffe manager Lee Wolstenholme, said: “In my opinion The 40G is currently the UK’s most popular two axle mobile crane. It has extremely good duties, but more importantly is extremely strong and reliable. If it’s good enough for Dewsbury and Proud, Davies and Marsh Plant it’s good enough for us and we look forward to doing more business with Tadano UK.”

Based in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, the company was established in 1983 by Ian Wolstenholme as a steel fabrication company and gradually evolved into a mobile crane hire company after buying its first cranes in 2000. It now runs a fleet of mobile cranes ranging from 15 to 50 tonnes, most of them being truck or All Terrain cranes in the 25 to 50 tonne bracket.

Manitowoc expands in Argentina

Buenos Aires-based construction equipment provider Covema has been appointed the distributor of Manitowoc crawler cranes and Grove mobile cranes in Argentina.

Currently a Manitowoc Crane Care partner, Covema will now offer the company’s full range of All Terrain, Rough Terrain and crawler cranes throughout Argentina. It will also be responsible for providing spare parts, service and training.

Manitowoc’s vice president of sales for South America, Cristian Galaz, said: “This alliance will enhance our presence in Argentina with products that serve customers in the energy sector and many other industry sectors.”

Established in 1965, Covema is also the distributor for a range of construction and mining manufacturers including New Holland, Wirtgen, Schramm, AFM, Hamm, Kleemann and Vögele. Based just outside of Buenos Aires, the company is in situated close to Manitowoc’s production facility in Passo Fundo, Brazil.

First GMK6400 in Australia

South Australia based Fleurieu Cranes has taken delivery of the first Grove GMK6400 to arrive in Australia.

The company had originally intended to purchase a luffing jib for its existing 350 tonne Terex AC350/6 All Terrain crane, but after seeing the capabilities of the 400 tonne Grove GMK6400, the company’s management decided to add one to its fleet along with its full 79 metre luffing jib.

Fleurieu, which is based in the Adelaide suburb of Wingfield, purchased the GMK6400 through local Manitowoc dealer RMB Service Group. The crane joins three other Grove All Terrains in the company’s fleet – two 55 tonne Grove GMK3055 units and a 100 tonne GMK4100. The new GMK6400 travels in a trailing boom configuration, with a with a three axle boom trailer.

Philip Allen, who co-founded Fleurieu Cranes in 2005 with friends John Elliot and Nick Berry, said: “By adding another All Terrain crane in the 300 to 400 tonne capacity class, we have increased our company’s resources. And because the luffing jib provides impressive reach and capacity on the GMK6400, we’re also now able to work in new markets. As a result, we are able to bid projects including wind farm maintenance and tower crane erection. Our operators really like driving the Grove cranes.”

On arrival the GMK6400 went straight to work at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, dismantling a tower crane belonging to Select Plant. The GMK6400, configured with 44.8 metres of its 60 metre main boom plus 43 metres of luffing jib and 115 tonnes of counterweight, managed all the lifts comfortably, including the removal of the 13.7 tonne top section of the tower crane with the jib luffed to 80 degrees working at a radius of 46 metres.

“The Royal Adelaide Hospital job was high profile and an ideal first job for our GMK6400 in many ways,” said Allen. “The crane had ample capacity and the configuration worked really well with regards to height restrictions from the local airport. We also had a crane technician flown in from Manitowoc Crane Care to assist us through the job. The GMK6400 can lift so much more than anything else in our fleet, I think we will get strong demand for it beyond our traditional borders.”

17 Tadanos for ALL Erection

US-based crane and access rental company ALL Erection & Crane Rental has ordered 15 units of Tadano’s 50 tonne GR-550XL Rough Terrain cranes as well as two 400 tonne ATF400G-6 All Terrain cranes.

The two 400G-6s, which will be based at the company’s Chicago and ALL Canada branches, feature a five section 60 metre main boom and a 76 metre luffing jib, offering a maximum under hook height of 122 metres. It is capable of lifting 360 tonnes at a three metre radius and taking 54.6 tonnes to 20 metres. The GR-550XLs feature a 34.7 metre main boom with an 8.8 to 15.2 metre bi-fold swingaway extension with offsets of five, 25 and 45 degrees.

ALL president Michael Liptak, said: “Tadano makes extremely reliable equipment that our customers trust. These new mid- and large-capacity cranes will be very busy immediately upon their arrival. We are expecting to see lots of infrastructure projects like bridges, road work, and commercial construction that the 450 tonne Tadano AT can easily get after. Lots of long-planned-for, though stalled, projects are finding their funding.”

ALL Erection & Cranes Rental is one of largest crane and equipment rental and sales companies in North America. Operating from 37 branches the company provides a range of cranes, aerial work platforms, telehandlers as well as other lift equipment.