en.Wedoany.com Reported - UK rental company Bronzeshield has taken delivery of an 80-ton Grove GMK4080L all-terrain crane, 40 years after its first mobile crane purchase. Four decades ago, Bronzeshield acquired a Krupp 70 GMT-AT all-terrain crane—one of the first all-terrain cranes to operate in the UK market. Grove acquired Krupp's mobile crane business and its production facility in Germany's Wilhelmshaven about nine years later, and Manitowoc subsequently acquired Grove in 2002.
The four-axle GMK4080L features a 60-meter seven-section main boom, with an optional 8.7-meter to 15-meter double folding swing-away extension, a maximum offset angle of 40 degrees, and support for manual or hydraulic luffing, achieving a maximum lifting height of 78 meters. Under a 12-ton axle load limit, the crane can carry 13.3 tons of counterweight (total counterweight 19.1 tons), or 5.2 tons of counterweight to maintain a 10-ton axle load. Bronzeshield's fleet also includes Grove all-terrain cranes such as the 300-ton GMK6300L-1, 250-ton GMK5250XL-1, and 150-ton GMK5150XL.
Bronzeshield stated that the original Krupp 70 GMT-AT represented the cutting edge of mobile crane technology at the time, with a main boom length of 37.2 meters, which now pales in comparison to the boom length of its four-axle successor. The company takes pride in its 40-year partnership with Grove/Manitowoc. Manitowoc's UK Sales Director, James Leishman, thanked Bronzeshield founder Bill Frost and the entire team for their long-term collaboration and dedication.
Bronzeshield was founded by Bill Frost in 1971, with its headquarters near Crayford in Kent, southeast of London. Frost started with a bridge crane and purchased his first mobile crane in 1976. Today, the company's fleet includes all-terrain cranes up to 500 tons, spider cranes, and Spierings mobile self-erecting tower cranes, with branches in Bromsgrove near Birmingham and Norwich in East Anglia.
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