01.10.2018

New 90T RT from Link-belt

Link Belt is to launch a new 90 tonne Rough Terrain crane later this week - the 100RT.

The new crane enters a market which has grown in potential and is now hotly contested by relatively new products from Tadano, Grove Terex and more recently Liebherr. The crane will feature a 47.2 metre full power boom, topped by a 17.7 metre bi-fold swingaway extension which incorporates a new easy erecting system and offsets by two, 15, 30 or 45 degrees. A 4.9 metre lattice insert can be added to the extension to provide a maximum tip height of 72 metres.
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The new Link-Belt 100RT features a 47.2 metre full power main boom with load telescope capability.

The new crane has an overall travel width of just over 3.2 metres wide, and an overall length of just over 15.3 metres. Overall height is 3.91 metres and overall weight of 55 tonnes including its removeable counterweight of 13 tonnes. Power comes from a Tier 4 final Cummins diesel, which is said to beat European Stage V emissions. It includes a diesel particulate filter and uses Diesel Emission Fluid (Adblue).

The cab is the company’s latest design with a new wider, more comfortable seat, up to 20 degrees of tilt and the Link-Belt Pulse 2.0 load moment and information system with a 10 inch screen and wifi connection for remote software updates. The system incorporates V-Calc set-up allowing variable outrigger set-up and automatic monitoring. We do not yet have load charts for the new model, but given its overall weight and counterweight we would expect them to be strong.
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The new Link-Belt 100RT features wide hoist drums

The crane will be officially launched at the company's Crane Fest event this week with shipments due to begin during the first quarter of next year.

Vertikal Comment

Given the limited information that we have gleaned this looks like it could be a very good machine going head to head with the new Liebherr, Grove, Tadano and Terex. On the surface the new model looks like a ‘me too’ product in that while the boom is very slightly longer than the others at 47.2 compared to 47 metres, it is almost two tonnes heavier, longer and higher. This may well be offset by a better load chart of course?

Link-Belt builds a nice crane, but whether this product will take market share from Tadano and Grove or stop Liebherr’s push into the market remains to be seen.