Lighter lifting equipment
Any equipment, including cranes and loading platforms, installed on a vehicle will contribute to its overall weight. This is most important in the 3.5t and 7.5t categories where operators need to be mindful that there is always limited capacity to carry loads such as tools, equipment, materials and supplies and remain within the designated limits. Minimising the weight of equipment is always preferable.
Penny Hydraulics has utilised its in-house expertise and advanced computer design and finite element analysis techniques to remodel many of its crane and loading platform products to reduce weight in the past couple of years.
This effort has paid dividends across the company’s cranes ranging from 100 to 2000kg MWL and allowed it to introduce new loading platform models such as the LoadLift and StepLift with 500kg MWL which weigh little more than comparable earlier designs with 250kg MWL.
