19.10.2023

Tadano AC 5.140-1 for Saan

Dutch rental company Saan has taken delivery of a new 140 tonne Tadano AC 5.140-1.

The five axle crane features a six section 60 metre main boom topped by a 9.2 to 17 metre bi-fold swingaway, to which two 7.2 metre inserts can be added between the boom nose and bi-fold for 31 metres of additional reach - all of which can be offset by up to 40 degrees for a maximum tip height of almost 96 metres. Alternatively, the company could have ordered the three section 17.4 metre telescopic extension which offsets/luffs by up to 60 degrees. Saan specified the new crane with optional 10x8x10 drive, a three axle counterweight trailer and 16.00R25 tyres.
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Saan fleet manager Mark van Klaarbergen said: “The AC 5.140-1 is the strongest, most powerful 140 tonne class crane on the market today. Not that brute strength is the only thing the crane has going for it. The robust carrier features 72 percent gradeability, giving the crane outstanding off road mobility for assured access to any job site. And with its generous 60 metre main boom length and colossal lifting capacity, the AC 5.140-1 is the perfect choice for heavy lifts. Another of the crane’s highlights is its double-folding swing-away jib with integrated heavy-lift jib, which can be mounted without an assist crane. We absolutely didn’t want to do without this option as it dramatically expands the crane’s range of applications.”

Saan was founded in 1897 when Petrus Hendricus Saan, started a transport business. In the 1930s his son Piet Saan built a basic crane to install a new steel sheet pile wall in the Keulse Vaart canal in North Holland, with further cranes purchased in the 1960s and 1970s driven by the developments at Schiphol airport. Based in Diemen on the south east side of Amsterdam, it now runs a fleet of All Terrain cranes up to 220 tonnes as well as spider cranes and a full range of mobile self-erecting tower cranes. It employs around 150 staff across three locations in the Netherlands and one in Romania.