IN FOCUS / TADANO TELE CRAWLERS
BUILDING BRIDGES WITH NEW TADANO HYDRAULIC TELE CRAWLER Bridge building specialist, NelMac recently took delivery of the first Tadano 35t telescopic crawler to be delivered in the country. Industry pioneer, Nelson McIntosh was clear on what the business required and impressed at how many boxes the Tadano GTC 350 ticked. THE McINTOCH FAMILY IS SYNONYMOUS with bridge building in New South Wales and Victoria. If you have driven the Hume Highway or the Princes Highway between Sydney and Melbourne, you will have driven over or under a combined total of 46 bridges designed and constructed by the family business, NelMac Pty Ltd. NelMac, which has its operations in Yackandandah, in north west Victoria was founded in 1970 and has a proud and strong history of providing innovative and high-quality solutions within the bridge construction industry. Nelson McIntosh has been around bridge building for as long as he can remember. “My father was building timber bridges before World War two. After the war a few concrete bridges started to get built and we decided we would change our focus and concentrate on building concrete bridges. In 1970 my father became ill, and I started Nelmac Pty Ltd, and we have been going strong since then. “I have always been hands on with the business and to this day, I have my suitcase packed and it sits in the back of my car ready for when I am called out to urgently view a project or deal with an issue on site,” he said. McIntosh explains where the NelMac business fits into the bridge building sector and why his business has been so successful over a long period of time. “We find some construction companies call tenders for the works where the designs have already been done but for other projects, they call tenders for design and construct. We do 90 / CAL January 2022
With a maximum boom length of 27.2m the GTC-350 features a three-section, full-power, telescoping boom system that consists of one double-acting hydraulic cylinder with load holding valves and extension and retraction cables.
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