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A brand new Liebherr LR 1700 1.0 crawler crane was delivered to Ainscough’s Leyland depot in Lancashire on thirtieth October.
It’s the first crane of this mannequin within the UK.
The 700-tonne class crane is the fifth and largest lattice growth crawler crane in Ainscough’s fleet. Ainscough’s personal fairness house owners aren’t at this stage trying to tackle the most important gamers within the crawler crane market – Weldex has greater than 100 crawlers – however they do need to strengthen its increasing tasks division and search broader alternatives inside the heavy carry market.
Most of Ainscough’s 400+ crane fleet is wheeled all-terrain telescopic growth cellular cranes.
The opposite crawler crane fashions in Ainscough’s fleet are the Liebherr LR 1300 (300 tonnes), Terex Demag CC 2500-1 (500 tonnes) and CC 2800-1 (600 tonnes).
In response to Liebherr, the LR 1700-1.0 affords customers a mixture of decrease transport prices extra related to 600-tonne class cranes however with the lifting efficiency of 750-tonne lattice growth fashions. Designed and manufactured across the bodily dimensions of the smaller LR 1600/2, the LR 1700-1.0 shares lots of the parts of the smaller crane however has larger lifting capacities of as much as 15% because of a redesigned static construction.
Ainscough Crane Rent chief government Peter Gibbs stated: “The Liebherr LR-1700 1.0 represents the newest design expertise inside the heavy crane business and by including one to our fleet it should give us the flexibleness to undertake a wider vary of tasks with a single crane.”
Heavy cranes operations director Andrew Spink added: ““It truly is a singular crane – the lifts it may well obtain will actually enable for the staff to flex our experience in planning and execution. The crane itself opens quite a lot of doorways for us, and the funding in what’s a UK-first was actually a no brainer.”
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