IN FOCUS / BEN BADEN SERVICES
HUNTING QUALITY CRANES FAR AND WIDE Hunterwide Cranes recently worked with Ben Baden Services to secure delivery of a quality used truck crane. WHEN ALAN TWEEDIE FROM HUNTERWIDE Cranes was in the market for a quality, used truck mounted crane, he turned to the Ben Baden Services. As usual, Ben Baden, Anthony Davis and their team were able meet Alan’s requirements by delivering a high quality, low hour Tadano TL300 E. Hunterwide Cranes services the Hunter Valley, Newcastle, Maitland Cessnock regions and has worked as far afield as Mudgee and Port Kembla. No distance if too far for the fleet, the cranes are registered, well serviced and extremely road worthy says owner and director Alan Tweedie. Hunterwide Cranes was established 14 years ago. Over this time the fleet has grown from one to five cranes. 48 / CAL November 2021
The business predominantly services the general crane hire market with a particular focus on the domestic housing market including the installation of steel beams, frames, trusses and flooring as well as installing swimming pools. Tweedie started in the mobile crane industry in 1980. He started working with cranes as a dogman and spent his first 10 years at Eveready Cranes and progressed onto larger projects where he drove and dogged Favcos on high rise projects in Sydney. He is originally from Newcastle and moved back to the area to work with mobile cranes. Working for several companies including Bowers Cranes in Singleton, Carrington Steel, Wheeler Cranes and Newcastle Mini
Cranes, Tweedie obviously has plenty of experience, with various companies, over his 41 years in the industry. “I like to think I have a good reputation in the industry. I’ve never not worked with cranes and in my 41 years of working with them, I know safety comes first. “Our depot is in Cannington Drive, Tomago which is a fairly central location for Newcastle and the surrounds. We are right on the highway for when we are travelling north, we are ideally positioned for travelling into Newcastle and we can get out and into the Hunter Region easily also. We do tend to spend a lot of time on the road travelling to and from sites. “All of our cranes are truck mounted cranes, apart from the 20t Franna. The www.cranesandlifting.com.au
