New Grove all-terrain crane building Birmingham University sports complex
One of the UK’s leading crane hire companies Dewsbury & Proud has added a new Grove GMK5130-2 all-terrain crane to its fleet of 35 Grove cranes. The crane is already hard at work performing a wide range of lifts at a sports complex development at the University of Birmingham.
The 130 t capacity Grove GMK5130-2 is the second of its kind to join Dewsbury & Proud’s fleet in the last twelve months as managing director Tim Proud explains.
“Grove cranes are tried and tested work horses that we know will work hard and always perform ” he says. “Our cranes are out working on different job sites across the Midlands every day of the week and as a taxi crane company we need cranes that are easy to transport and quick to set up. Dewsbury & Proud will continue to buy Grove because of their competitive prices exceptional aftercare and reliability.”
In recent times Dewsbury & Proud’s fleet of Grove cranes have been put to work at construction and industrial job sites; water-treatment and utility plants; airports large office complexes and football stadiums.
At the current University of Birmingham job site the new Grove GMK5130-2 is lifting a wide variety of general construction materials including pre-cast concrete steel formwork shuttering concrete skips and wall cages of varying sizes.
The new sports complex will include an Olympic-sized swimming pool a sports hall containing 12 badminton courts six squash courts a climbing wall and two state-of-the-art gyms.
The highly versatile Grove GMK5130-2 all-terrain crane features a 60 m main boom that can be extended to 92 m with the hydraulic luffing fly jib. The crane with its full counterweight travels with just one truck reducing transport costs and set-up time.
Dewsbury & Proud supplies its Grove cranes to projects at a wide range of job sites across the Midlands. The company operates four depots in Wolverhampton Stoke-on-Trent Coventry and Loughborough.
The 130 t capacity Grove GMK5130-2 is the second of its kind to join Dewsbury & Proud’s fleet in the last twelve months as managing director Tim Proud explains.
“Grove cranes are tried and tested work horses that we know will work hard and always perform ” he says. “Our cranes are out working on different job sites across the Midlands every day of the week and as a taxi crane company we need cranes that are easy to transport and quick to set up. Dewsbury & Proud will continue to buy Grove because of their competitive prices exceptional aftercare and reliability.”
In recent times Dewsbury & Proud’s fleet of Grove cranes have been put to work at construction and industrial job sites; water-treatment and utility plants; airports large office complexes and football stadiums.
At the current University of Birmingham job site the new Grove GMK5130-2 is lifting a wide variety of general construction materials including pre-cast concrete steel formwork shuttering concrete skips and wall cages of varying sizes.
The new sports complex will include an Olympic-sized swimming pool a sports hall containing 12 badminton courts six squash courts a climbing wall and two state-of-the-art gyms.
The highly versatile Grove GMK5130-2 all-terrain crane features a 60 m main boom that can be extended to 92 m with the hydraulic luffing fly jib. The crane with its full counterweight travels with just one truck reducing transport costs and set-up time.
Dewsbury & Proud supplies its Grove cranes to projects at a wide range of job sites across the Midlands. The company operates four depots in Wolverhampton Stoke-on-Trent Coventry and Loughborough.
