IN FOCUS / QUICKLIFT CRANE HIRE & ACCESS HIRE Quicklift Crane Hire’s latest addition is this LTM 1250-5.1 from Liebherr.
QUICKLIFT BOOSTS ITS CAPACITY WITH LIEBHERR LTM 1250-5.1
Quicklift Crane Hire, based in Shepperton, recently took delivery of a new Liebherr LTM 1250-5.1, the largest crane in its fleet to provide an even higher level of service to its customer base. QUICKLIFT CRANE HIRE IS A FAMILY-RUN business started in 1998 by husband-andwife team Jarrod and Karli Sutherland. Its fleet has grown to over 20 cranes and it recently celebrated the arrival of a brand new LTM 1250-5.1. Quicklift has had multiple Liebherrs during its time operating and Jarrod says he enjoys the functionality and ease of operation the cranes have. “It is just a good quality crane, and they are fairly universal,” he explained. “The first Liebherr we had was an 80 tonne and, even now, you can go between different cranes. They are pretty similar in their operation – that’s one thing Liebherr do well. An operator can get out of one crane and into another and, even though it’s a different size crane, it is still fundamentally the same operating system.” The LTM 1250-5.1 is the most powerful www.cranesandlifting.com.au
mobile crane on five axles on the market. It is the third crane model on which Liebherr uses its innovative single-engine concept. The Liebherr innovations VarioBase and ECOmode mean that crane operators can use the LTM 1250-5.1 with even more safety and efficiency. In the development of the new crane, Liebherr followed the concept of achieving maximum load capacity from the available weight of a five-axle mobile crane. This larger capacity is what drew Jarrod and the Quicklift team to the crane. “It is a little bit of a step up, we had a 220 Grove and we moved up to a 250 Liebherr,” he said. “We recognised there was more demand for something a bit bigger – the 220 compared to the 250 doesn’t sound like much of a difference, but in some parts of the chart it has up to 30 per cent greater capacity.”
The LTM 1250-5.1 is the most powerful crane in its class in the world. Its load capacity has been increased compared to its predecessor by around 15–20 per cent, whilst the telescopic boom has remained at the same length of 60m. With lattice extensions the maximum hook height has been increased by a massive 9m to 110m. “Obviously, the LTM 1250-5.1 allows us to do a few more jobs that we couldn’t do with the 220. Greater lifting capacity helps and obviously being a later model crane – our other one was a bit older – and we wanted to avoid reliability issue’s as well,” said Jarrod. VarioBallast is a new feature for Liebherr. The LTM 1250-5.1 can be operated with two different ballast radii of 5.58m or 4.78m. Liebherr has designed a solution to adjust the ballast radius particularly quickly and easily. The ballast radius May/June 2022 CAL / 89
