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The brand-new Gottwald AK 450

Gottwald AK 450

This week I made a visit to my former employer and now long term customer Franz Bracht crane hire in Erwitte. We had a talk about the updates that need to be done for the new load chart books that we are going to deliver soon. Beside additions of new crane load charts and updates the load chart books will get a complete makeover for the layout.

Impressive generator transport with Bay Crane suspension beam

This week I have received some impressive heavy haulage pictures from Bay Crane, Long Island City. They recently made a generator transport with a suspension beam. The suspension beam was mounted on 2 x 15 axles lines of Goldhofer modular trailer. Bay Crane moved the unit with up to two Oshkosh HET (Heavy Equipment Transporter) prime movers and one Kenworth. The heavy transport had a total weight of 590 tons (metric).

I guess the pictures speak for itself:

Collett & Sons transport worlds fastest car

This heavy haulage job for Collett & Sons was not about massive weights or large dimensions. Nonetheless it was a very special transport which the UK haulage company from Halifax in West Yorkshire has realized.

Terex Explorer 5800 and AC 250-1 All Terrain Cranes in tandem lift

Terex Explorer 5800 and AC 250-1 All Terrain Cranes lift roof elementsLimited space and oversized loads – these were the two challenges that crane service provider Autojeřáby Malina had to overcome when lifting the steel roof structures for the new multi-purpose arena in the Czech town of Frydek-Místek.

The solution for this difficult task was a tandem lift with a Terex Explorer 5800 and an AC 250-1 all terrain crane.

Liebherr LR 11000 - First job for Felbermayr crawler crane

 Liebherr LR 11000 Crawler Crane from Felbermayr

Austrian crane hire and heavy haulage specialist Felbermayr recently brought to work the new Liebherr LR 11000 crawler crane for the first job.

Doolan's Heavy Haulage: Excavator transport with Scheuerle trailer

Doolan’s Heavy Haulage has added the widening trailer transport system from German trailer manufacturer Scheuerle to its fleet. Recently the Australian heavy haulage company has used the new trailer system for the transport of a Hitachi excavator throughout the country.

Doolan's Heavy Haulage from Australia with Hitachi excavator transport