Ask anyone at Schweri Autokrane GmbH and they will tell you that Tadano City cranes are not something they are willing to do without. In fact, the advantages behind these machines are so important that the Krefeld-based crane experts recently replaced their tried-and-true AC 40 City with a cutting-edge Tadano AC 3.045 City. “I can tell you that the AC 40 came through for us time and time again, but saying goodbye wasn’t particularly hard. After all, we know that the AC 3.045 City can do everything better, and we got a really good trade-in value for the AC 40 from Tadano,” explains Schweri Managing Director Leonhard Zerni, who picked up his new AC 3.045 City in person at Tadano’s location in Lauf. The crane was handed over by Tadano Sales Manager Helge Prüfer.
To put it succinctly, the Schweri team is thrilled with its new AC 3.045 City: “Its compact design and incredible maneuverability make it an ideal crane for work in extremely tight spaces, so it’s simply unbeatable when it comes to indoor projects,” Leonhard Zerni points out. As additional plus factors, he mentions the unit’s large lifting capacities and intelligent IC‑1 Plus crane control system, which determines the crane’s maximum lifting capacity for every boom position as a function of the superstructure’s slewing angle in real time. As a result, the crane is always able to take advantage of the maximum lifting capacity available to it – especially during lifts over the outriggers. The Schweri team is very familiar with how well this feature works in real-life scenarios, as it has other Tadano cranes in its fleet, such as the AC 5.220-1, that include the IC‑1 Plus system as well. In addition to this, the City crane features the Flex Base outrigger system, which makes it possible to extend outriggers to any point within their range and is the ideal choice for work at cramped sites where every single centimeter counts.
“As far as we’re concerned, the equipment package is absolutely perfect and leaves nothing to be desired,” says Leonhard Zerni, who unsurprisingly plans to use the AC 3.045 City primarily for indoor assignments and work at industrial facilities – in other words, anywhere where space is at a premium and the company can make full use of all the advantages behind this compact Tadano powerhouse.