Osprey will upgrade its heavy-lift services further with the new addition of a Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1, an 800-tonne all-terrain mobile crane, arriving in November. It further reinforces the company’s capabilities to perform extensive lifting work in the fields of onshore wind, civil infrastructure, bridge, port, and highways.
With having invested in projects that produce more than 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy, Osprey has been central to the UK’s renewable energy shift. Its services have evolved to include turbine installation, component transportation, and testing of new generation nacelles and blades.
“The LTM 1750-9.1 gives us genuine flexibility in the way we work,” explains Dean Graham, Heavy Lift Director at Osprey. “It is rapid to deploy, easy to transport and efficient to operate—all of which combines to reduce programmes shortening vehicle movements and making the lift in smaller spaces possible.”
The world’s most popular mobile crane has a 52-metre telescopic boom that retracts to a 152-metre hoist height for a maximum working radius of 116 metres. It self-rigs in four to five hours without the necessity for an auxiliary crane. The nine-axle model minimizes ground pressure and goes where larger crawler cranes are prohibited.
Environmentally, the crane aligns with the eagerness of Osprey for green lift solutions. With the latest Euro-compliant engines and renewal HVO fuels compatible engines, it also features Liebherr’s ECOdrive and ECOmode technologies for reduction of emission and fuel consumption.
The addition is especially useful for wind projects inland, where quick rigging and mobilization between turbines will shave days per project and minimizesite disruption. It also improves the performance ofOsprey during complicated civil infrastructure projects such that it supplements itsopenersof heavymobile and crawler cranes in addition to port marshalling and freight-forwarding services all over the UK.
