IN FOCUS / PALFINGER AND RC LIFT AND SHIFT
The fly jib enables the Palfinger to get into windows for example or to get up and above gantry cranes and other hard to reach spaces.
EMBRACING PALFINGER’S INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
RC Lift and Shift may be a relative newcomer to the Brisbane crane market, but owner and director Andrew Popp is forward thinking when it comes to the equipment he wants to offer customers. He recently took delivery of the first Palfinger PCC 57.002 crawler crane to be delivered into the country. MR POPP IS AN OWNER OPERATOR WHO, IN 2019, set up a crane truck business called Coast and Country Crane Trucks. Based in Park Ridge on the south side of Brisbane, and with a new name of RC Lift and Shift, he services various industry sectors in South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales. However, Mr Popp is prepared to travel for his clients and has completed projects in Moree, Gympie and as far as Townsville, Cloncurry, and Sydney. Mr Popp provides some more detail regarding the new Palfinger crawler crane. “The Palfinger PCC 57.002 is a knuckle 24 / CAL May/June 2022
boom crawler crane. You would normally associate knuckle booms with a crane truck. The crane has a load moment of 52.7 MT [typical rating of knuckle boom cranes] and, if you compare charts, it would be competing with a 25–30t all terrain,” he said. “One of the benefits of the crane is its compact size. When it is folded in on itself it only measures 5.9m in length x 1.9m in width. Depending on the configuration it weighs between 19t and up to 26t and features 5t of counterweight. Within minutes it can further disassemble itself with the heaviest item, the superstructure,
weighing 12t. The counterweight is slightly different to those on all terrains for example, because the crawler crane doesn’t need the counterweight if it can be set up on full outriggers. “The purpose of the counterweight is primarily to maintain the lifting capacity of the crane when you are working on short outriggers because there isn’t enough space for full outrigger widths. It also increases pick and carry capacity and it provides full lifting capacity if you are working with the crawler tracks disconnected from the super structure,” said Mr Popp. www.cranesandlifting.com.au
