Anyone know anything about cranes? Specifically how much one of these would cost brand new?
£750K? Maybe more.
How often are you planning on blacking the hull that you need your own crane?
Own Account Driver:
How often are you planning on blacking the hull that you need your own crane?
you know Harry he likes things done right 
Own Account Driver:
How often are you planning on blacking the hull that you need your own crane?
I can hardly afford the blacking, let alone the crane!
I did take those pics from a narrowboat forum, somebody said “I bet that crane cost a fair bit” (It’s a 64-reg) so I was curious to know what sort of money they cost. I’m guessing £750,000 as mentioned above wouldn’t be too wide of the mark?
It’ll take you years to pay it off Harry don’t do it.
and it is new
Anybody tell me, why are they always left hand drive?
ashton gate:
Anybody tell me, why are they always left hand drive?
My theory on that is due to the amount built ,that it is to much hassle and expense to do a right hand drive version…I may be wrong ,but it’s the only reason I can think off
Because the manufacturer of cranes are primarily German and the sales of such machines is very specialised. It’s not cost effective to build right hand drive models because there isn’t the economy of scale that there is with cars.
I believe it’s because they are mainly produced for the overseas market.
A mobile crane that is used to build a new ward at Great Ormond Street hospital is one million pounds new.
To hire it for the day it will cost ten grand.
It can lift 300 tons.
Are there any UK crane manufacturers left or were Coles the last one?
You should see the mobile Liebherr ones at ABP Cardiff, gives you the horn it does, least 5 million id say, maybe 10.
This is our new crane 220tonner cost between 1.2 and 1.5 million pound my truck has all new ballast on it
The 250ton crane the company i work for cost €1 million apparently.
We collected the crane plus ballast from germany.
Saw that red one heading north on the A34 last week.
They cost in the region of £1m for something that size. Up to £5m for the big ones.
Craneboy. I do hope you check all yer wheelnuts every day 
Here in peterhead , dailymail.co.uk/news/article … rbour.html was worth about £3 million, fell over in may this year and still in situ . They are working out how to remove it, its a toss up between the German manufacturer coming over or the nomadic metal recyclers in there transits 
I think the daily mail have it a bit wrong. I don’t think it weighs 825 ton while travelling at 50mph