As a result of its customers intending to lift larger and heavier loads on casual short-term hires, Australia-based Universal Cranes has added a pre-used Liebherr LTR 11200 all-terrain crane to its fleet.
Being deployed for both infrastructure and industrial projects, for instance, many of Universal Cranes’ customers are working on projects that require large and heavy loads and are therefore seeking a casual short-term hire of cranes which can relocate on sites without needing to be derigged.
“With the LTR 11200, we can move the crane fully equipped on construction sites with steep terrain,” said Ben Smith, national operations manager at Universal Cranes. “The pedestal mode also allows us to carry out jobs without having to take the crawlers to the construction site.”
Originally produced for erecting wind turbines, Liebherr’s LTR 11200 has a lifting capacity of 1,200 tonnes, a 100-m-long telescopic boom, and Y-guying and quick-setup lattice extensions. It also features a shorter setup time than lattice boom cranes, along with relatively low counterweights and space required to erect the boom.
Universal Cranes opted for the LTR 11200 to modernise a railway crossing in Brisbane, Australia, when tasked with installing nine pre-cast concrete bridge girders which measured 35 m in length and weighed 76 tonnes each. The crane was equipped with a 28-m-long main boom, a 36-m-long luffing jib and 182 tonnes of ballast.
“Our LTR 11200 was the ideal crane solution for this job: it is unrivalled in its load capacity class and can also be moved around the construction site,” said Patrick Silver, projects and heavy lift division manager at Universal Cranes. “The area for the crane assembly was very limited, but thanks to its crawlers, the 1,200-tonne crane could be put into operation in an adjacent yard – far away from the rail corridor and the carriageway.”
Of its 278 cranes in its fleets in Australia, New Zealand and Guam, 47 are from Liebherr.
Earlier this week, HLPFI reported that Bigge Crane and Rigging had ordered 29 cranes from Liebherr.
