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Rieger & Moser has replaced two existing cranes in its fleet with new Liebherr mobile cranes, both with longer telescopic booms.

The Ulm, Germany-based crane company purchased a 60t LTM 1060-3.1 with a 48m telescopic boom, replacing a 23-year-old Liebherr LTM 1040-1 with a 26m boom. This will enable many jobs to be completed without the installation of a folding jib, reducing crane erection time.

Also added was a 95t LTM 1095-5.1 mobile crane with a 58m telescopic boom, hook height of 82m and working radii of up to 60m.

This replaces an LTM 1100-1 with a 45m boom, which Rieger & Moser purchased in 1997.

German crane company Karl Scholl has targeted the chemicals industry with the addition of a 300t Liebherr LTM 1300-6.2 mobile crane to its fleet.

The LTM 1300-6.2, with a 78m telescopic boom, replaced the company’s 250t LTM 1250-6.1, providing higher load capacity and an additional 6m in boom length.

The crane, now the largest in the fleet of Heidelberg-based Karl Scholl, is said to be the smallest luffing jib crane on the market. It was supplied by Liebherr’s Ehingen facility.

The long telescopic boom and luffing jib make it particularly suitable for use in the chemicals industry, said the company.

German crane company Autokranverleih Pengel has used its new 220t Liebherr LTM 1220-5.2 mobile crane at a motorway construction project.

The LTM 1220-5.2 replaced Pengel’s LTM 1160/2, previously the largest crane in the company’s fleet. The greater load capacity of the LTM 1220-5.2 was one of the reasons for the acquisition, said the company.

After being delivered in September, the crane was used at one of the largest construction sites on the A14 Autobahn in the north-east of Germany.

A 1,200t Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 telescopic boom has been used to install a wind power plant in Germany.
Crane company Karl Hartinger Kranbetrieb, based in Warburg-Rimbeck, used a nine-axis LTM 11200-9.1 to install a 3MW Enercon E-101 wind energy plant in Preussisch Oldendorf, in the north-west of Germany.

The heaviest part of the plant was the machine housing, which had to be mounted to a hub height of 99m, with the total load including lifting gear and hook block at 66.5t.

The telescopic boom with Y-pattern guying was extended to 82m, mounted with a 31.6m lattice jib. The LTM 11200-9.1 also features a 6.5m-long hydraulic luffing lattice jib, which was well-suited to the project.

Karl Hartinger crane operator Tjerk Thomiczek said: “The hydraulically luffable lattice jib is unbeatable on this crane, because I can set up the entire E-101 from a single position. I never have to reposition – that’s a huge advantage. Over the course of the installation, the extension was reduced from 19m to about 10m.”