07.12.2012

Terex AC 1000 goes to work

Austrian rental company Felbermayr was one of the first companies to use the new Terex AC 1000 All Terrain crane.

The company used the crane on a challenging job in Leppersdorf, near Dresden, where it replaced four large whey tanks at a dairy owned and operated by Sachsenmilch. The milk products company stipulated that the installation had to go ahead without interrupting production and was therefore carried out on four subsequent Fridays.
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The AC 1000 was used on a challenging job in Leppersdorf, near Dresden, where it replaced four large whey tanks at a dairy.

The premises lacked space to manoeuvre the crane, which had to work from sloping ground close to a busy thoroughfare. This also made it a challenge to erect the luffing jib that job required.

The Felbermayr team set up the AC 1000 with 29.2 metres of boom by extending telescopic segments two and three while leaving segments one and four completely retracted. Following this, the team installed a 60 metre luffing fly jib in order to attain the required reach of 52 to 54 metres and a hook height of 70 metres. Finally, 208 tonnes of counterweight was added.

Crane operator Wolfgang Korch said: “We were able to dispense the need of bringing additional counterweight for an SSL configuration, since the AC 1000’s lifting capacity with this configuration was more than enough for this project. I am very impressed with the AC 1000 – especially how easy the crane was to control, operate, set up, and disassemble.”
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AC 1000 was set up with 29.2 metres of boom, a 60 metre luffing fly jib to attain the required reach of 52 to 54 metres and a hook height of 70 metres and 208 tonnes of counterweight.

The crane then lifted an old 24 tonne tank, slewed it to the side within a radius of 51 meters and set it down in a horizontal position with the help of a Terex AC 80-2 crane. Next, the AC 1000 lifted the new 30-tonne tank at the same radius and slewed it through the same radius and lowered it into place.

The same procedure was repeated every Friday between August 3rd and August 24th, 2012, allowing production at Sachsenmilch to go undisturbed.