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21.05.2005

A visual Tour of SED 2005

SED 2005 is now behind us, the general view of the show was very positive with last years record attendance probably exceeded with around 20,000 visitors. This in spite of cool temperatures and risk of rain.

The worst aspect of the show was the lack of traffic planning and direction, last year excellent traffic control, possibly combined with the one way traffic on the A-5130 due to a damaged bridge, This year getting into the show was unnecessarily slow with long delays, but the worst was reserved for leaving with times of over an hour the norm for anyone leaving after closing time. Those who complained were told that it was all down to the M1, in spite of the fact that once you were out of the gate the road was clear!

Hopefully this will really be the last time at Fen farm and the new venue will have better entry and exit routes.
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A view of the Cranes&Access village at SED


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The Car parks almost reached capacity on the first two days


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Cranes&Access! The Genie 135/70, sold to Hi -Reach, soars over the show ground, with NMT's Demag towering in the background


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SEV, under new ownership showed Aerial trailers and the new Iteco electric scissor lifts


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Dave Stiano, area sales manager for Sky King(L) with John Ball of Easi UpLifts and the new Skyking 198PX 3.5tonne truck mount


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Bobcat showed its top of the line T40170 telehandler


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CAT had a single Telehandler on display, the top of the line TH580B


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The Easi UpLift team during a rare lull, (L-R) John Ball, Nicole Engesser of Vertikal, Fergus McArdle, Harry McArdle and Ronan Mac Lennan all of Easi UpLifts, the new Aichi dealer for the UK and Ireland


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A Dieci dual telescoping integrated platform


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A City Lifting Spierings SK599-AT5, folding tower crane against the changing sky


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City Lifting and Chamberlain at the official hand over of the latest unit for City Lifting and the first Spierings for Chamberlain. (L-R) Andrew Tutt (Chamberlain) - Bob Bruijsten (Sales Spierings UK) - Trevor Jepson (City Lifting) - Leo Spierings (Owner


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Andrew Tutt of Chamberlain crane hire congratulated by Bob Bruijsten of Spierings for the purchase of the 100th SK488-1T4 folding tower crane


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Leigh Carter of Fassi UK with the SED award for excellence for the F235.AXP26


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Lionlift srl launched its first telehandler, the Galaxylift GH40-07, at SED this is one of a range of four


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Hiabs Demonstration trailer with a wide range of its lorry loaders


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Time for fishing? the multi stage Hiab soars into the sky alongside Spierings


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Hitachi-Sumitomo's two telescopic crawlers, including the new 40 tonner, the first of which was sold duing the show to Dunne building and civil engineering of Bathgate.


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IPAF had a busy SED, following its annual Summit on Monday


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Skyjack? JLG? no Holland Lifts! The Russon Access stand, included two new 18 metre models. A narrow indoor only model in Skyjack colours, sold to Kimberly Access and a 2.5 m wide, outdoor version in blue and green. The latter offers a 1,000 kg lift capac


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The first Locatelli ATC 20 sold to NMT crane hire


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JLG back at SED for the first time in many years, concentrated on its Telehandler line


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The Maeda LC755-3 is now CE approved. Kranlyft has received four orders so far


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The Manitransit TMT 320-3 sold to the Royal Lifeboats


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One of the new Merlo's with boom head mounted hook


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NMT supported the Cranes and Access village, the only crane hirer with the vision to exhibit


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National Crane hire group at NMT's stand


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Oil&Steel exhibited this year with its new distributor, the Platform company


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Oil&Steel showed two of its 44metre Eagle truck mounts, one fitted with a special roofers platform unfolding....


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...The oil&Steel special roofers platform fully open


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TH White has taken on the UK distributorship for the Bison-Palfinger access range. This is the first time the products have been exhibited in the UK. The first unit to be sold in the UK,a 35m TKA 35KS, has been ordered by Always Access.


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Peter Hird Junior demonstrates how easy it is to operate the Valla 20TRX with remote controls


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The HSE stand showed new ways to handle awkward loads, including a Pipe positioner from the Platform company


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The worst of the weather held off but threatened frequently on day one and three


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Malcolm Kitt of Power Lift UK with one of its van mounts


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Forget the dog.. the best dressed ladies take a Maeda mini crane for a walk, it is better behaved!


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Alan Russon (L) with Menno Koel of Holland Lift


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Dino lift was exhibited on the Promax stand, but adoption of telescopic trailer lifts in the UK is still slow


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Hitachi Capital showed a specially fitted van with Palfinger pedestal crane. This unit will be supplied to Southern Water on contract hire.


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Christian Lajous, Mani Access product manager (L) with Dave Faultless of Manitou UK (C)and Alan Russon of Russon Access with the first 18 metre 180ATJ in the UK, sold to AJ access


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The Cela TJ170 on the Promax stand, it has an amazing working envelope for a 3.5 tonne chassis, this unit was sold to Ploughcroft building services


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Cranes and Access... Towermatic had an excellent show, the new Work at Height Rules appear to be boosting demand for such innovative new access equipment


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A Manitou telehandler fitted with a roof truss jib


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Unic cranes showed its new 095, the worlds smallest crane, with a length of 1.6m and weight of only a tonne it is ideal for small elevators/Lifts


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The New Vanson VC29 self erector crane


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Vanson was the only full size tower crane exhibitor, with the main working components of its recently launched Ramondi/Rayvan MR108+3, Flat top city crane.


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Versalift launched its new walk in Insulated basket


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Versalift is promoting its van mounts which require no outriggers


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The Facelift stand with its new battle bus and Towermatic access towers


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The interior of the new Facelift exhibition bus


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Under its new name Gardner Denver showed off its groundbreaking new TDA145, with over nine metres outreach and the Skyhigh 1100 on Piaggio Porter chassis


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They have stolen our Name! a Gardner Denver van mount sold to Aquarius Leasing


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Cranes&Access! The Genie 135/70, sold to Hi -Reach, soars over the show ground, with NMT's Demag towering in the background


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The second JLG-Liftlux to emerge, the 153-22 joins the 245-25 launched at Conexpo


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Alan Bates (second from the right) of Mitchells of Horley Ltd, was the overall Vertikal Champion, with an amazing one minute and 35 seconds time on day one.


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Crane Drivers from all over the UK and Ireland tested their skills on the Hiab-Vertikal Challenge


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The Ranger stand featured two Italmec built crawler mounted booms, the R16 and R21


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HMF UK Ltd won the Best Newcomer award , Andy Rigby, managing director of HMF accepts the award from Mark Bresnahan director of SED


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The worlds first Hitachi-Sumitomo SCX400T sold to Dunne Group Ltd, Gordon Dunne (L) seals the order with Rod Abbot of NRC at SED


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Getting in and worse still, getting out of SED 2005 was appalling! Waits of up to an hour or more to leave the Showground were the norm after 5:30. Traffic management was incompetent, in spite of the organisers excuses



That’s it for now folks

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