German rental and heavy haulage company Richter Kran und Schwerlast has taken delivery of its third 800 tonne Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 All Terrain crane.
The nine axle LTM 1750-9.1 travels with its 52 metre main boom and once on site up to 91 metres of lattice extensions can be added along with the Y-Guy Superlift system to achieve a maximum tip height of just under 160 metres with the main boom extended to 49 metres, a 19 metre extension between the boom nose and jib pivot point plus the full 91 metres of luffing jib.
The handover at the Liebherr facility in Ehingen
The maximum radius is 116 metres, at which point it can handle 1.81 tonnes. The capacity on the fully telescoped main boom is just under 100 tonnes, or 208 tonnes with the Y-Guy installed. The new crane will be used mostly for wind power projects as well as industrial and infrastructure projects.
(L-R) Anton Pätzold, Matthias Richter and Martin Krusche of Richter Kran
The new LTM 1750-9.1’s first assignment took it to northern Bavaria on the day after it arrived in order to lift several components weighing up to 80 tonnes for a ceramics company in Selb.
Anton Pätzold, head of the transport department, said: “For this job, all services are provided from a single source: we not only take care of the preparation and the lift itself. The individual components of the industrial plant were previously collected from northern Sweden by our in-house transport department using three heavy-duty transporters.”
When the job was completed, the crane travelled to the Bergisches Land region to erect a new wind turbine, before starting a new contract to dismantle 11 old turbines between Leipzig and Dresden.
On its second assignment, the LTM 1750 9.1 erecting a wind turbine
Company owner Matthias Richter said: “The number of projects is currently enormous – in all areas. It was clear that we needed additional lifting capacity in this class.”
Matthias Richter started off as a 'one man band' in 2007 with a single loader crane, setting up Richter Kran und Schwerlast that same year in Grimma, central Germany, he initially focused on transporting building materials. Then in 2016 he purchased his first mobile crane, a Liebherr LTF 1060-4.1 truck mount which he still uses as for turbine foundations. He added two more Liebherr’s - the LTM 1070-4.2 and an LTM 1090-4.2 - and by 2019, had 20 employees and was obliged to move to a new site in Leipzig.
The company now employs 55 and offers both transport and crane rental.
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