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The Sany has been purchased for the KI Ports Refurb Upgrade project at Kangaroo Island. The infrastructure upgrade projects include a South Australian Government commitment of $73 million to deliver key safety and efficiency improvements to the ports at both Cape Jervis and Penneshaw.
“We are operating a 250t Kobelco down there on the Cape Jervis side and the Sany will be working on the Penneshaw side of the project where we’ve had our 200t capacity Liebherr working in the interim. Some of the future works coming up are beyond the capabilities of the 200t mobile, so we were faced with the prospect of getting a much larger capacity mobile or looking at a crawler option,” said Simon.
“We started looking at hire options. Ideally, wherever we can we want to use our own team to self-deliver, and we know the mobile crane market doesn’t normally provide dry hire options. So, we looked at our options of dry hiring a crawler and we found they would have to come from interstate. This meant transportation costs would have been prohibitively expensive and so we began weighing up the pros, cons and costs to actually purchase a crawler,” he said.
Simon began researching the market and having seen the prevalence of Sanys, and the types of companies purchasing the brand, he began a conversation with Phil Chadwick from Tutt Bryant, the National Distributor for Sany.
“We could see that the Sany brand is becoming more and more prevalent in the market, and so we contacted Tutt Bryant for a quote. The pricing came back and it was very competitive, and Sany was also excellent with the options they provided as well, particularly to accommodate the marine-type works we envisaged for the crane. The price was right, what Sany was offering was right so we made the purchase,” said Simon.
The Sany SCC2000A lattice boom crawler has a 200t lifting capacity. McMahon Services researched the market before deciding on the Sany.
“We priced a few brands. We had brands that were astronomically more expensive and others that were competitive, but they couldn’t deliver in the same timeframe promised by Sany. Price, the quality of the product and delivery time frame were the key reasons we went with Sany.”
McMahon Services has a good relationship with Tutt Bryant and this was also a key reason for the purchase.
“We have a good relationship with Tutt Bryant and they have an excellent reputation in the market. We haven’t owned a Chinese brand before, but we figured if Tutt Bryant are continually adding Sanys to their fleet and they are performing well, it can’t hurt to give them a go.
“We know they have a number of these in their dry hire fleet which was reassuring, and we also know that Sany is supported
by the local Tutt Bryant branch in terms of service and parts availability,” said Simon.
He goes on to discuss the key features and benefits of the Sany SCC2000A.
Key features of the McMahon Services Sany include:
- 70m Boom
- 31m Fixed Jib
- Rooster sheave
- Main & Aux winches with 26mm ropes and 13.5t line pull
- Hooks 150t, 80t, 35t & 13.5t ball hook
- 20 degree tilt cab
- Full counterweight 74t Upper + 25t carbody Cwt
- Reduced counterweight charts
- Barge charts
- Self assembly
- Upgrade C5 paint standard in McMahon Services colour
“The key features that really sold Sany included the huge variety of counterweight reduction charts. Where some of their competitors only had a full counterweight chart or one reduction chart, Sany provided a huge variety of charts which gives you more options.
“They also offered a thicker layer of high quality of paint which they wouldn’t normally supply with a crane and they also provided a number of barge charts. A barge chart for the full counterweight is normally provided, but Sany accommodated us and created some barge charts for their reduced counterweight options on the machine. They also provided us the ability to operate the crane from a barge,” said Simon
Simon has been impressed with the service McMahon Services has received from Tutt Bryant.
“In the initial stages, we worked with Phil Chadwick who is extremely knowledgeable and helped make the sales process seamless in terms of his communication between us and Sany. During the delivery and commissioning stages we worked closely Daniel Waldhuter and his team from Tutt Bryant’s Mawson Lakes branch.
“During the commissioning of the crane when we had any questions or any niggling issues, Daniel jumped straight onto it and got his guys his guys down here. The Tutt Bryant team have been really supportive through the sales and commissioning process which augers well for our future with our new Sany,” said Simon.