29.08.2016
First Bronto S70XR for Germany
German rental company Berteit Arbeitsbühnenvermietung has purchased its first Bronto, a new 70 metre S70XR, the first in Germany.
The company runs a fleet of around 100 aerial lifts, including scissors and booms, plus eight truck mounted units, with the new Bronto replacing a 45 metre unit as the largest platform in the fleet. Before committing to buy a 70 metre, the company consulted with a number of other rental companies with which it co-operates in the region, none of which has a large truck mount.
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The Bronto S70XR is demonstrated to the Berteits at the plant in Finland
The specification includes remote controls, a 1,100kg boom mounted winch, and a 400kg winch in the platform, plus an on board generator. The new machine will be delivered early in the new year.
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The 1,100kg boom mounted winch option
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The remote control option
Co-owner Roland Berteit said: “Nobody else has a 70 metre unit that weighs less than 32 tonnes and is less than 12 metres in length. This is very important in Germany, as it means we won’t need to acquire any special permission to drive the unit around.”
Bereteit was established in 1994 by Roland and Monica Berteit and now employs 11 staff, including the older of their two sons. Interestingly the company’s first boom lifts, back in the 1990s were Bronto booms trailer lifts.
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(L-R) Roland and Monica Berteit with Thomas Mayr of Bronto Skylift at the Bronto plant with the XR70
cfk88
I would like to add I think both lifting people with crane and materials with access platforms are perfectly safe operations when done correctly, planned properly and the correct equipment used and should be aloud. I just don't agree with the double standard in the industry when it comes to crane lifting people.
cfk88
Double standards again. Ask anyone in the access industry and they will say lifting people with cranes is incorrect. But when it comes to using an access platform as a crane it's ok.
rooster
Don't like the way this is going, are we platform operators or crane operators. Also who is responsible for slinging the load? Do you have to do a slingers course