Types of Equipment covered include:
– Lattice Boom Crawler Cranes
– Tracked Cranes
– Lattice Boom Truck Mounted Cranes
General Benefits:
– Statutory compliance: It is quite simply illegal to operate a crane that is not certified.
– Various Global Standards: We can certify crawler cranes across all major international standards
– Insurance Compliance: Machine and Public Liability Insurers insist on yearly certification.
– In the case of Personnel Carriers the crawler crane must be certified every 6 months.
– In addition to compliance the thorough annual inspection is also a very good “snap shot” of your fleet
– Thorough annual inspections reveal the state of the maintenance of the crawler crane and any lack of operator skills
– Thorough annual inspections increase reliability of the crawler crane
– Improve the crawler crane’s up-time
– Reduce accidents and unplanned downtime and expense.
Specific Areas Checked include:
– Full Lattice Movement Inspection
– Critical Items e.g. ropes, hoops, brakes and winches
– Load Indicator
– Crawler Tracks
– Masts
– Back stops
– Verification of Load Indicator and Load Safety Systems
– Slew ring
The thorough annual inspection will include a functional load test.
We can perform rated load tests on request.
A final report will be issued identifying any deficiencies (if present) and recommendations. All crawler cranes that pass inspection receive a certificate valid for 12 months (crawler cranes used for carrying personnel for 6 months).