Terex presents 1,000 tonne AC 1000
31 March 2010
Highlight of the Terex Cranes display will be the long-awaited 1,000 tonne capacity AC 1000 wheeled mobile telescopic all terrain crane.
Terex claims it as the "most powerful all terrain crane that can travel with the boom."
It has two telescopic boom options - the HA50, which is a 50 m heavy duty boom or, with the addition of another unit of four telescopic sections inside the first, the HA100, a 100 m version.
These four HA100 sections, with 245 tonne capacity integrated boom head, weigh 22 tonnes and can be transported on one standard EU truck.
The 100 m boom is nine telescopic sections in total, including the base. A 363 tonne capacity heavy lift head is part of the 50 m boom as standard and needs no disassembly or exchange of parts, Terex said.
The maximum boom and jib combination length on preliminary charts gives a hook height of 163.3 m.
Almost all customers will buy the AC 1000 with 100 m boom and full luffing jib, Terex said. Its most common boom and jib configuration, typically for wind turbine work, will be WIHI-VA-SSL with 34 m main boom + 16 m fixed lattice extension + 48 m offset lattice jib, giving a maximum load of 91.6 tonnes to a hub height of 90.6 m at a radius of 23 m, according to preliminary information.
Even in the same boom and jib combination but with an extra 6 m in the offset jib (96.6 m hub height) capacity is 79.1 tonnes, or still enough to erect 80% of wind turbines that are being put up at the moment, Terex said.
