13.12.2007

LG 1750 for KR Wind

Danish company KR Wind, a joint venture between Mammoet, Holland, and Enggaard, Denmark, is taking delivery of a new 750 tonne Liebherr LG 1750 lattice boom mobile crane early in 2008.
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(L-R) Jan van Seumeren jr- Mammoet, John Hartvig Larsen - KR Wind, Karl Passing, Dieter Walz, Klaus Huberle, Lars M. Rautenberg Jensen and Hans-Dieter Willim, all of Liebherr-Werk Ehingen

KR Wind chose the Liebherr LG1750 for its range of boom configurations that it says are well suited to wind turbine work. With a straight boom and it offers a lifting capacity of 100 tonnes at a hook height of 122 metres and 18 metres radius, making it ideal for turbines in the 3 MW class up to a hub height of 110 metres.

When fitted with a derrick boom, suspended ballast and a fixed jib it can lift 100 tonnes to a hook height of 152 metres, to cope with the increased hub heights now coming into use.

The crane can also handle 150 tonnes for work on 3.5 - 4 MW class wind turbines when fitted with shorter boom configurations.

KR Wind has also ordered three of the new 600 tonne Liebherr LR 1600/2 crawler cranes.