Link-Belt Crawler Crane Completes Luffer, Capacity Tests

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Link-Belt's 548 crawler crane will ship in 2009.

January 29, 2009 â€“ Luffer and all SAE conventional capacity tests on Link-Beltâ€™s 550-ton 548 lattice-boom crawler crane are complete. Currently, machines on the test pads at Hitachi Sumitomoâ€™s facility in Saijo, Japan, are completing function testing and load moment calibration and verification. Shipments into North America are planned for the second quarter of 2009.

Introduced at ConExpo last March, the 548â€™s preliminary specifications place the heavy-duty boom at 79 to 275 feet and the long-range boom at 138 to 354 feet. Complete luffer specifications will be announced soon. Future testing will involve a heavy-lift attachment.

Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company, Lexington, Ky., is a leader in the design and manufacture of telescopic boom and lattice-boom cranes for the construction industry worldwide.

Complete crane specifications are available at www.linkbelt.com.