IN FOCUS / MCG CRANES
AS GOOD AS NEW USED LIEBHERR DELIVERED TO MCG Victorian-based crane contractor MCG Cranes recently took delivery of a refurbished Liebherr LTM 1350-6.1 mobile crane mainly for the construction and deconstruction its fleet of tower cranes. The 350t crane was the 10,000th used crane to have been refurbished in the Liebherr factory. The LTM 1350-6.1 was the 10,000th used crane delivered by the Liebherr LWE used crane workshops.
60 / CAL July 2019
GLENN MARTIN HAS BEEN IN AND AROUND the crane industry for just under 20 years. He initially started in the industry erecting structural steel for a company in Geelong. MCG Cranes was started in 2006 by Glenn alongside his father Mick and brother Danny. “MCG Cranes is predominantly a family-owned and operated tower crane company, but we have a number of mobile cranes as well,” he said. “We have approximately 40 tower cranes and 15 mobile cranes in our fleet and we’re running about 100 staff at the moment,” he said. “We work for the major construction companies in Melbourne including businesses like LU Simon Builders, Probuild, Watpac and Hamilton Marino, and that’s across both our tower and mobile cranes. Our depot is in Thomastown and our work tends to be around Melbourne and the surrounding suburbs.” The MCG tower crane fleet mainly consists of Jost Cranes from the German designer Franc Jost. “We like the Jost brand and design because it is well priced from a purchase point-of-view. In today’s highly competitive tower crane hire industry, you really need a brand that will look after you in terms of purchase price,” said Martin. “We also have some Jost-designed electric cranes that are manufactured in China. The lifting capacity of the tower crane fleet is from 10t to 24t.” MCG Cranes ordered the LTM 13506.1 crane mid-September 2018 and it arrived in Melbourne in early February 2019.
