Tricky job for Schmidbauer

German crane service provider Schmidbauer used a Terex AC 40 City crane to carry out lifts on a restricted site at a logistics warehouse in Ingoldstadt.

For the task the Schmidbauer team was required to stack 16 containerised offices inside the warehouse. The confined space inside the warehouse meant that it was a job for the AC 40 City crane. The AC 40 lifts 40 tonnes and has a 31.2 metre telescopic boom.

To cope with the restricted work space a runner with the maximum possible offset was installed on the end of the crane’s main boom and swivel hooks were used instead of a hoist rope, allowing the containers to be put in chains at all four corners, a company spokesperson said.

The containers were 6 m long and weighed 2.5 tonnes each. They were lifted at a radius of 10 m. Crane operator Steffen Jaenecke, said, “With this configuration, I was able to bring the upper containers to the required height and then set them down on the lower ones without running into the ceiling structure or into any lighting fixtures or pipes. After just ten hours, all 16 containers were where they needed to be.”

Christian Schlagbauer, the branch manager at the Schmidbauer Group’s Ingolstadt office, said, “There weren’t any viable alternatives to begin with – no other crane had the design characteristics required to handle the job. Without the AC 40 City crane, we simply wouldn’t have been able to take on the project.”