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Found this lil 4 (once 5 axle?  ) axle crane pickin' at a Local Target, while the lady shopped i stopped and took a couple pictures. One of the trucks had broken down so their mechanics truck was there. The best looking one around in my book! Not sure what model this is tho... Christian might!   Nice!  Sorry bout the quality taken from my phone. Enjoy
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Nice pics looks like an older 1200 model. Jason
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That is a Liebherr LTM1080/1-L.
It is a special version for the US Market, where the carrier is taken from the LTM1100/2 (5 axles and then is the 3rd axle removed), and the superstructure is standard LTM1080/1.
The crane was built to meet the US axle load regulations.
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A LTM 1080 with kidney stone ... i would have leaned more toward 110 T .. its not often you will see axles pulled out to meet an axle loading requirment.. Another reason to get the center axle out is when climbing those humps and bumps on some job sites ,, the lack of the center axle which more often than not is a slave axle and dosent always turn acutly ,unless manually commanded by the lever in the cab ..is to keep from going high center and to keep from dragging an axle through the mud ..meaning you keep going where other's get stuck ... this unit has 3 drive axles ..one slave .. But yeah ..the 4 axle carrier was offered like that for the US market I know those cranes are generally 360 chart ,primarliy structual capacity..but why put it over the side when you can easily get over the rear ..atleast ther'es an engine and transmission behind you for a little extra insurance.... Jib would sill go on slicker than greased snot..
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Did anyone notice the unit number on the door in the first picture? Right next to the DOT number, it says 120-3. Makes one wonder if they class it as a 120 ton rig?? -Alvin. EDIT: http://www.hattons.com/EquipmentCranes.aspx scroll down...
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AlvinB wrote:Did anyone notice the unit number on the door in the first picture? Right next to the DOT number, it says 120-3. Makes one wonder if they class it as a 120 ton rig?? -Alvin. I saw that ..yeah you and me both .....but each company is so individual ..where i used to work an 80T we had was #50 ..a 60 ton unit was #140.. a 14 t unit was #01 Just depends on who has to do the book keeping and what a juristicition like to see in an audit ..more often it gets decided by the guy in charge of keeping everthing running ..the shop foreman..
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Lotsacrane, I see where you are coming from...we have a 14 ton boom truck here at work that is number 69...honest...
If you click on the link I provided in the Edit to my original post, they are calling it a "120". I tried to click on the chart, but it did not open for me...
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Kristoffer wrote:That is a Liebherr LTM1080/1-L.
It is a special version for the US Market, where the carrier is taken from the LTM1100/2 (5 axles and then is the 3rd axle removed), and the superstructure is standard LTM1080/1.
The crane was built to meet the US axle load regulations. Thanks Kristoffer! Hatton's crane has another liebherr that is a special axle configuration. I'll hunt down a picture and post it! Lotsacrane wrote:A LTM 1080 with kidney stone ... i would have leaned more toward 110 T .. its not often you will see axles pulled out to meet an axle loading requirment.. Another reason to get the center axle out is when climbing those humps and bumps on some job sites ,, the lack of the center axle which more often than not is a slave axle and dosent always turn acutly ,unless manually commanded by the lever in the cab ..is to keep from going high center and to keep from dragging an axle through the mud ..meaning you keep going where other's get stuck ... this unit has 3 drive axles ..one slave .. A lot of hydro's around here travel with the center axle raised for maneuverability and weight restrictions etc... But never seen an axle removed before
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Great crane. I like the DARE logos on the boom LOL. I was wareing one of those shirts today painting LOL.
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Hello Friends, long time ago i write here something, now i want can help again and hope to bring little more light in this dark Crane...  This crane is definitely a LTM 1100-2, not a LTM 1080-1L. I see on Hattons Webpage also a LTM 1080-1L in his Fleet (LTM 1080-1L built for US market). The Crane above are his LTM 1100-2, we can see that very good on the photos, this Crane has a many more solid Superstructure, bigger and another Counterweight andandand. Are the Carrier is another, evenly a LTM 1100-2 chassis with only 4 instead of 5 axles. I hope i have read anything not wrongly in this Thread, my English are sometimes not so perfect, sorry  Lot of Greetings from Mainz/Germany Michael www.MHTmodels.dewww.schwerlast-rhein-main.de
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Ness/Campbell has had one of these for sometime (4+years). Ness was always a "Grove" company and had never (?) purchased anything else. I was told at the time of purchase that Liebherr had made them one heck of a deal on (2) cranes like this. They had been ordered by another company and the order canceled while they were in transit. The other unique thing is, Ness always had their machines yellow, but not Grove yellow. The odd part is the Liebherr yellow really clashes with the Ness yellow. They aren't shown on their website.
The operator pulled in past the dock (last photo) and beside/around the compactor. No need to disconnect the dolly that visibly behind the flat (middle photo)
The dolly may have held the center too far from the building.
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Michael (MHT-models) is right. The crane is not a LTM1080/1-L, but a LTM1100/2 where the 3rd axle has been removed.
Hattons also have a LTM1080/1-L in their fleet, but the big differences are the superstructure, and the storage boxes between the 2nd and 4th axle on the LTM1080/1-L. These are not present on the LTM1100/2, since (I think) it is not an official Liebherr conversion.
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