Aiming for the high-hanging fruit? Then this fine piece of rental machinery is the perfect tool. Standing at some distance, I initially thought it was a truck-mounted telescopic boom crane. Yet on closer inspection, that’s clearly a work platform in the center.
The Ruthmann cherry picker (or more formally, an AWP – aerial work platform) teamed up with a MAN TGS 35.470 8×4 chassis-cab. The ensemble weighs an impressive 32,500 kg (71,650 lbs).
The number 750 in the AWP’s model designation refers to its maximum working height of 75 m (246 ft). That’s quite a stretch.
Now let’s see how this whole situation unfolds (suspense/dramatic music alert). Elevating!
Another MAN TGS 8×4 truck, more down-to-earth:
Wow 75m I’d drive the truck but you would not catch me 75metres up on the work platform, absotively not.
I’m with you, no way would I be up on that work platform at 75m.
I would.
Not truck-mounted, but there’s also a Ruthmann Steiger TTS 1000. You know what that means…
What, does that mean it’s NSU powered?
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cohort-classic-nsu-tt-a-legendary-giant-killer/
Close, but no cigarette. Let alone a cigar.
So I could just walk in and rent this thing? Wow, this would be perfect to clean out my gutters!
You’re sure it’s tall enough?
Our tallest aerial was a 70 ft and I wasn’t very fond of being in that basket at full height.
Think of how they would’ve worked up there before this was invented.
If I positively had to be up there, I’d rather be in this than any alternative I can think of.
Yikes! I’ll be admiring its abilities from the ground thank you very much. I certainly hope the jacks have triple failsafe redundancy.
It certainly puts all fairground rides to shame, when looking through all this:
https://en.ruthmann.de/products/steiger/t750hf
I’ve spent my time in boom lifts, I had to maintain all the street/parking lot lights for a time where I worked. We had a little 30 foot one, but if I was all the way up it was kind of pucker time, at least at first. After a while I got my sea legs and it was better, but all the way up was a little sketchy. At times I had to rent a 45 or 60 footer and 30 feet on them was like I was on the ground on a 6 foot ladder. Rule of thumb, the may actually be safe, all the way up, but after about 75% of max it gets uncomfortable. But a 75m lift? Uh, no thanks.