23.02.2021

90m Palfinger for Canary Islands

Spanish crane and transportation company Grúas y Transportes Bony has taken delivery of a 90 metre Palfinger P900 truck mounted platform.

Mounted on a 48 tonne Scania P450 8x4 chassis with a fifth floating axle, the P900 offers a maximum outreach of 32.3 metres with an unrestricted platform capacity of 530kg. The jib articulates up to a 180 degrees and the platform has 170 degrees of rotation.
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Bony's new 90 metre P900 Palfinger truck mounted platform

Features include automatic outrigger setup and levelling, around eight metres of below ground reach, power to the platform and the ability to work in wind speeds up to 15.5 metres a second.
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The P900 will predominately be used for maintenance of wind turbines

Established in 1989, Grúas y Transportes Bony offers a wide range of lifting and transportation services throughout the Canary islands from its locations in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria and Tenerife. Its fleet includes more than 100 All Terrain, crawler, loader and spider cranes along with specialist transport vehicles.

You can see how the P900 stacks up against the Ruthmann T 900 HF and the Bronto S90 HLA as well as what operators from UK's Blade Access had to say on all three below: