The Mobile Tower Crane Cheaper, Quicker, Better

The mobile tower crane has to be the saviour of the modern construction company

. Tower cranes are used where intense heavy lifting is required they are, usually, the things you see bristling all over the London skyline, whacking great lumps of concrete hanging worryingly off their back ends to balance out the lift. A traditional tower crane like this takes days to assemble, more days to check; and needs an inordinate amount of space to work properly. That can require whole weeks of a project being given over just to installing, checking and maintaining cranes: all ground work stopped while the crane is unloaded, put together and examined for potential faults.

A mobile tower crane performs exactly the same job as a static one only on wheels. Usually, the mobile version is an exceptionally long wheel-based truck bed with multiple turning axles. The truck is capable, once its stabilisers are down, of supporting lifts comparable to the loads borne by static tower cranes and, unlike its static cousin, it can manoeuvre into the most awkward of spaces thanks to its several turning axles. There have been instances where a mobile unit has taken its lifting arm into central city side streets, allowing major construction to take place in areas where it would previously have been a logistical nightmare.

The mobile tower crane is driven in when needed, set up (it takes around 15 minutes to set up a mobile unit) and used then taken straight out again. Doing the same job with a static crane requires finding a suitable site close by (usually a square a few streets over) where the thing can be put together; and that means trying to make a lift from a long way away. Its expensive, poorly-controlled and liable to put large areas of pedestrian and vehicular access out of action for months.

Its not just a question of efficiency though of course increased efficiency is always nice. The static crane is stratospherically expensive, even to hire requiring constant upkeep and checking, as well as representing money lost by having a huge area of dead space on a construction site. A mobile tower crane, because its so much easier to maintain (and doesnt need to be built on site) is a lot cheaper to hire. A company only pays for a mobile unit when it needs to use one. With a static tower crane, the same company has to pay hire charges for every day it stays on site and on a big job, that could be years. Bear in mind, too, that increased efficiency actually represents decreased spending: the quicker, and better, equipment does a job, the less that job costs to do in terms of man hours, wages, hire fees and time freed up to do other things.

A mobile tower crane, as well as giving easier access to difficult locations, represents another kind of freedom the freedom to take on jobs where the hire of a static crane might have made doing the work too expensive. In a market where every job counts, thats incredibly important.

by: City Lifting

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