29.05.2017

New Platform Basket Road-Rail boom

Platform Basket is to unveil an all new 40ft self-propelled articulated Road Rail boom lift, the RR14 EVO 3 at IAF 2017 in Munster, later this week.

The RR14 EVO 3 offers up to 14 metres of working height and is well suited to the maintenance of electrical catenaries and lighting systems along rail tracks.
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Platform Basket's latest 40ft self-propelled Road Rail boom lift, the RR14 EVO 3

The unit offers four wheel, three mode steer and four wheel drive, with a maximum travel speed on tracks when stowed of 19kph. The new model is based on the existing RR 14 EVO and includes Platform Basket’s well proven superstructure levelling system. The short sigma type dual risers stow with an overall height of three metres. Two digital display screens are provided, one on the platform controls and one next to the lower controls.

The machine includes a standard spring loaded pantograph system with a choice of blades and highly sensitive encoder to measure the distance between the track and the overhead cables. The pantograph has a graduated blade for reading the vertical deviations of the cables to within a range of plus or minus 550mm. The results are displayed on the two main display screens, while a larger screen is available as an option, mounted to the side of the superstructure to display the measurement results to those working alongside.

A standard manual winch helps fit and remove the measuring pantograph, while a new light weight trailer with a 2,200kg payload, will also be launched which can be towed behind the boom lift.
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The 14 RR-Evo 3 offers both four wheel drive and four wheel steer