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Loving the pictures, big fan of the classic stuff. Krupp where real big players in heavy cranes years ago and this machine is just awesome. Thanks for posting them. YCC's model should be great when we see it in a million zillion years  . Gaz
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It is absolutely amazing what legacy engineering exists within todays Grove. Between these Krupp and the Gottwald telescopic designs and the large latice Lima designs, it is amazing that they have engineering wise. Relative to the days of old, they have stayed almost too mainstream in the market and not expanded into todays larger machines as have Liebherr and Terex.
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DC Craneman wrote:It is absolutely amazing what legacy engineering exists within todays Grove. Between these Krupp and the Gottwald telescopic designs and the large latice Lima designs, it is amazing that they have engineering wise. Relative to the days of old, they have stayed almost too mainstream in the market and not expanded into todays larger machines as have Liebherr and Terex. And a lot of these machines are still in use today, 30 years on for some of them. The gottwald AK680 Sarens have got is still running strong (3rd refit along) 30 years from manufacture. Gaz
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Gaz wrote:DC Craneman wrote:It is absolutely amazing what legacy engineering exists within todays Grove. Between these Krupp and the Gottwald telescopic designs and the large latice Lima designs, it is amazing that they have engineering wise. Relative to the days of old, they have stayed almost too mainstream in the market and not expanded into todays larger machines as have Liebherr and Terex. And a lot of these machines are still in use today, 30 years on for some of them. The gottwald AK680 Sarens have got is still running strong (3rd refit along) 30 years from manufacture. Gaz I'd like to see you take a modern machine and make it last 30yrs. Everything now a days is crap compared to the real metal machines of the day. just like cars,trucks,ect. Justin
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Found this one in the web. This a KMK 8500. Year? Owner? Location? Lets see if the Sherlocks Holmes of the forum have an idea. I don't.  
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That looks like the former JJ Curran (Detroit) KMK8500.
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J.Galvez wrote:Found this one in the web. This a KMK 8500. You know what that KMK looks almost identical to a Gottwald AMK401, and I mean twins! Was this a joint venture between the two companies, does anyone know? http://pic50.picturetrail.com/VOL459/4928377/10149548/370814650.jpghttp://pic50.picturetrail.com/VOL459/4928377/10149548/370814586.jpgDate wise your looking mid 80's for this machine, although being one of the 'Good ol' machines most are still about today. Gaz
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Gaz. You got a good point. But I still don't know LOL. Hope someone can help. Anyway, here are the pics Gaz has posted. Cheers.  
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Gottwald build only one AMK 401. Then Gottwald got out of business. Krupp bought the part of the telscopic cranes (the part with the lattice boom cranes bought Demag). So the AMK 401 swithed to KMK 8400/8500 (KMK means Krupp Mobil Kran). No JV or copies !
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Thanks for re-posting my pictures Gaz.
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Cosmosman wrote:Thanks for re-posting my pictures Gaz. Your welcome, great pictures of the old Interlift machine. Kranhuber wrote:Gottwald build only one AMK 401. Then Gottwald got out of business. Krupp bought the part of the telscopic cranes (the part with the lattice boom cranes bought Demag).
So the AMK 401 swithed to KMK 8400/8500 (KMK means Krupp Mobil Kran).
No JV or copies ! I never knew that, makes sense now. So the Interlifts 401 was one of a kind under the Gottwald flag and the ones built after came under Krupp. Cheers for the post and clearing that up Gaz
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