ALL Aerials Grows Fleet with 250 New JLG Aerial Lifts
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March 22, 2007 • ALL Aerials, Richfield, Ohio, a branch of ALL Erection & Crane Rental Corp., yesterday announced a major acquisition of approximately 250 new aerial lifts from JLG. The new equipment offers boom heights from 30 to 150 feet and includes several specialty models, including a sizable quantity of JLG's 150-foot 150HAX articulating boom lifts. ALL Aerials is one of few companies in the United States with the 150HAX in their rental fleets.
Not only does its 150-foot platform height allow access to extremely high outdoor applications, but also, as with all articulating models, the 150HAX is drivable at full elevation. The chassis width provides access to narrow industrial aisles and congested work areas.
Pete Zeller, press contact for ALL Aerials, said that ALL wants to be known as the company that always has what rental customers are looking for • that was a big motivation for purchasing the 150-foot 150HAX machines.
“Even if the majority of customers don't need that long of boom lengths, we want to be the company that has the extremes,” Zeller said.
In the past, ALL Aerials had to rent cranes with jibs combined with a personnel basket to customers who needed to lift people to extreme heights, but Zeller said now those customers will be able use an actual aerial lift for their applications.
Other specialty lifts added to ALL Aerials fleet for the first time include track-mounted aerial lifts, 60-foot electric boom lifts, and models with on-board welders.
The new track-mounted aerials have crawlers like a bulldozer and are ideal for applications such as bridge building or anywhere the lifts have to traverse steep embankments or muddy, soft, or sandy terrain.
Like the 150-foot 150 HAX, the track-mounted aerial lifts give ALL Aerials a wider range of products to offer to its customers. In the past, Zeller said, when ALL Aerial's application engineers scouted a worksite with a steep slope or particularly muddy ground, a crawler crane would be recommended, even if the customer needed an aerial lift.
The addition of crawler-type lifts to ALL Aerial's fleet “make it more likely that our aerial division can fit the bill,” Zeller said.
The 60-foot electric boom lifts are powered by rechargeable batteries and can work on indoor applications without producing engine emissions, making them essential for working on indoor or slab applications. For instance, the onboard welders allow workers to weld pipes up to 125 feet in the air, eliminating other more awkward or dangerous solutions.
The new equipment was purchased with company-wide input from ALL Aerials locations in various geographic areas, where customers' needs vary greatly.
“We are aggressively pursuing acquisitions of new equipment in the aerial market,” said Michael Liptak, ALL Erection & Crane Rental president. “This year, we have made a major thrust in the area of specialty aerial lifts that will upgrade our fleet with the newest, most exciting equipment to serve our customers' diverse needs.”
Zeller said this was ALL Aerials' largest purchase of aerial equipment since the branch was formed a couple years ago. In September, ALL Aerials bought 120 new units slated for 2006-2007 delivery.
For more, see www.allaerials.com.
