First job for Sarens' Boom Booster
17 October 2014
International heavy lift and transport specialist Sarens, based in Belgium, used the first of its two new Terex Boom Boosters at a wind farm in Noordoostpolder, the Netherlands.
The Boom Booster is fitted to one of Sarens' Terex CC 8800-1 lattice boom crawler cranes, which is in the 1,600 tonne capacity class. It replaces the bottom part of the crawler’s boom, typically increasing capacity by 60 %, the manufacturer said.
The CC 8800-1 with Boom Booster is being used to install 38 large Enercon wind turbines. The turbines have a tower height of 135 metres and a capacity of 7.5 MW each, a company spokesperson said.
The Boom Booster is made of five inserts and two adapters and measures 72 m long. It is 10 m wide and 3.2 m high and weighs 197 tonnes. It is made of single girders and lacings with pinned connections.
Sarens also has a second CC 8800-1 at work with a Boom Booster. It is working at the Sadara Project in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Tasks for the crawler there included lifting an 85 m high column which weighs 800 tonnes. A second column lift is scheduled for the end of the year.
