The 400-tonne capability LR 1400 SX machine is being utilized by its proprietor, Full Tilt Crane Providers, to elevate concrete tilt-up panels that type the partitions of a brand new movie studio for Electrical Owl Studios within the US metropolis of Atlanta, Georgia.

Tilt-up development – a method fashionable within the US however hardly ever encountered in Europe – entails casting strengthened concrete panels horizontally on-site after which lifting them vertically into place.

The panels used for this mission have been made by Full Tilt’s mother or father firm Martin Concrete Building.

Full Tilt purchased the crane from Liebherr’s manufacturing unit in Nenzing, Austria, which developed the machine in response to a rising demand for initiatives of this sort, the place elements are getting greater and heavier.

The most important tilt-up panel on this job has a top of roughly 34 metres: “You’re not going to have the ability to try this within the precast market,” stated Full Tilt Crane Providers’ managing director Jason Richardson.

The LR 1400 SX, launched in November 2021, is a general-purpose elevate crane designed for fast meeting and ease of transport. In journey mode the crane weighs not more than 46 tonnes.

“The self-assembly system of the crane is essential to us,” stated Richardson. “We don’t want an help crane. Proper now, we are able to totally meeting our LR 1400 SX in beneath 12 hours.”

Full Tilt Crane Providers continuously strikes from web site to web site, usually finishing initiatives inside one to 2 weeks. The truth that the LR 1400 SX will be moved shortly is a superb benefit for the corporate, explains Richardson.

Platform and railings stay hooked up to the superstructure throughout transport and solely have to be folded down. The self-assembly system, the growth sections, counterweight, crawlers and hoist winches will be simply assembled and disassembled with out the necessity for an auxiliary crane.

The crane can elevate, decrease and safe its personal 150-tonne rear counterweight with out help. The counterweight itself is modular and will be outfitted with 5-tonne or 10-tonne counterweight slabs, relying on necessities.

Having expressed satisfaction with its new Liebherr machine, Full Tilt Crane Providers has now ordered a second LR 1400 SX. “Our expectations from the primary one met all the pieces we have been in search of. It’s an awesome machine,” stated Richardson. (Watch video of the crane in motion right here).

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