Who s on the right track? 21 April 2021
Stuart Anderson, president of Chortsey Barr Associates, looks into the increased popularity of crawler-mounting and more specifically of telecrawlers. He also makes a comparison between telecrawlers and rough terrains in regards to market demand and day-to-day lifting work.
Fifteen years ago, Phil Bishop, then the widely-respected editor of this journal, analysed the issue of why Europe’s crane buyers made different product choices from the rest of the world.
For the main part, Phil’s analysis discussed the all terrain and truck crane buying preferences of Europe’s buyers compared with the rough terrain preferences in North America and Japan. Much of the discussion focussed on types of crane buyer, owner-operator crane hirers buying cranes for local ‘taxi-crane’ service versus longer term contract hires in America and the need for more compact small rough terrain cranes in Japan.