German rental company Hölzl Kran has taken delivery of a 150 tonne Liebherr LTM 1150-5.3 All Terrain.
The five axle LTM 1150-5.3 - ordered at Bauma - is equipped with a 66 metre, seven section main boom along with the 10.8 to 19 metre bi-fold swingaway extension that offsets hydraulically by up to 40 degrees. A seven metre insert can be added between the boom nose and extension to take the maximum tip height to almost 95 metres and maximum radius to 72 metres.
The order was placed in April at Bauma (L-R) Benedikt and Walter Hölzl with Florian Maier of Liebherr, along with Josefa and Josef Hölzl
The crane will be used for a variety of jobs, including tower crane installation and dismantling, installing precast concrete building modules and loading machinery. The crane features the blue and white diamond pattern of the Bavarian coat of arms on its engine cover, continuing the company's tradition of featuring different designs on each crane in its fleet.
Hölzl Kran owner Walter Hölzl said: “The order situation is good. We therefore decided to add the LTM 1150-5.3 to our fleet. We can also offer the LTM 1150-5.3 as a smaller crane if required. This allows us to increase the utilisation of our fleet. Another major advantage is that we can use the extension from our 14 year old LTM 1130-5.1 on the new LTM 1150-5.3 without any modifications.”
The handover (L-R) Florian Maier of Liebherr, Walter Hölzl, Andreas Winkler and Johann Öttl of Hölzl Kran
Hölzl Kran is based in Reichersbeuern near Bad Tölz and traces its roots back to engine fitter Thomas Hölzl, who built a viable vehicle out of two demolished trucks and transported coal for the American troops after the war, initially from his home town of Obersalzberg/Berchtesgaden and then Bad Tölz, before setting up a one man haulage company in Wackersberg in 1949.
With the support of his wife, Monika and a growing team of employees, he expanded the fleet, adding an O&K UB 550 lattice wheeled mobile crane. But it was in 1971 when the crane business began to take off, with the purchase of a 20 tonne Gottwald AMK45 telescopic crane.
Thomas Hölzl died suddenly in 1987, leaving his wife Monika to manage the company with her sons Thomas and Walter. In 2017, the second generation formally created a separate crane company - Hölzl Kran, as a division of Thomas Hölzl.
Today, the fleet includes a crane fleet that ranges from a 2.5 tonne spider crane to the 220 tonne All Terrain flagship, along with aerial work platforms, loader cranes and rigging equipment.
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