Pete Smith Crane Rental & Rigging Corp has purchased its newest crane, the Tadano AC 4.080-1.
Based in Ontario, the company only recently began its journey in the mobile crane hire industry, and chose the Tadano thanks to its versatility, long boom, taxiing capabilities, and flexibility for a range of jobs in the Canadian province.
Describing his newest addition to the fleet, owner Pete Smith labelled his decision as a “no-brainer”.
“I bought this Tadano AC 4.080-1 because it has a 197-foot main boom and the Flex Base system that works with IC-1 Plus,” he said. “I can take this machine downtown Toronto into an alleyway, and I know before I even get out of the carrier cab where the outriggers will be.”
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Performing core tasks such as HVAC mechanical work, petrochemical work, and tower crane erection plus disassembly, the flexibility of the Tadano all-terrain crane is set to complement Smith’s business nicely.
“It has a fantastic chart with the legally roadable ten-tonne counterweight configuration,” he says. “As for the downtown core type work for roof top units and the HVAC mechanical side, I think this crane is going to prove handy in that market.”
Purchasing the crane through Tadano’s Canadian distributor Cropac, Smith was also complimentary of the support he received, saying he was “treated like family”.
“I approached Cropac in 2020 to discuss purchasing a crane. With some other dealerships I’d walked into, it was you having to jump through some hoops. But with Bill Finkle, Cropac’s owner, it was a face-to-face conversation, a handshake, and the deal was done.”
The news comes after Tadano recently sold another AC 4.080-1 to Johannesburg-based Marlboro Crane Hire, indicative of the crane’s increasing popularity.
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