22.03.2011

Socage to add cranes

Socage has announced that it will introduce a 30t/m truck crane and mount its A314 lift on a Cabstar chassis.

The new 30 tonne TK crane range has already passed its final testing, and is ready to be delivered to its owner. Mounted on an 18 tonne truck chassis, the TK30 can, says Socage, easily handle a maximum load moment of 30 tonne/metres.

The new crane series can also be equipped with heavy duty fly-jib which enables the crane to reach 40 metres hook height, with up to 35.2 metres of outreach. No photos or other details have been released yet.

In addition the company has mounted its 14 metre working height A314
Land-Rover/Pick up boom lift on a 2.5 metre wheelbase Renault Maxity/Nissan Cabstar 3.5 tonne truck.

Designed specifically for the Land Rover and more recently Isuzu pick up, the A314 creates a super-compact lift on the new chassis with a total length of just 4.5 metres and an overall width of just 1.9 metres.

The maximum outreach is 6.5 metres with the larger 225kg platform capacity throughout the 360° of continuous slewing which, the company says, helps improve productivity.
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The Socage A314 mounted on a 3.5 tonne Renault chassis

The new version of this lift, comes complete with ‘Easylift’ stabilisation system. The Socage patented system facilitates the stabilisation process and reduces the outrigger deployment time. The deployed outriggers do not exceed the vehicle width, thus allowing it to be set up in a regular car parking space.

Vertikal Comment

The move to introduce a crane is somewhat unexpected and unusual, the company’s managers only acquired the company from loader crane company Fassi in late 2009.

The initial release seemed to suggest that this would be a loader crane - rated in tonne/metres and with the nomenclature TK possibly a knuckel boom, it turns out howver that this is not the case and that it is an MGI commercial truck mounted dedicated telescopic crane.

While this is a different market the company is clearly hoping that applying the Socage name to the MGI products will help increase exposure and perhaps international interest in what is an interesting product range.

In this it is, in a way, following a trend set some time ago by Palfinger, which has done it the other way round.