Kiesel GmbH
This customer is the Hitachi Dealer for Germany who has and continues to build an enviable record in supplying excavators into their domestic market. Not wishing to rest on their laurels they have taken a conscious decision to give their customer base a one-stop total solution for all their bespoke needs. For a number of years this company has sold, very successfully their version of the modular joint (Oil-Quick) onto machines up to 45 tons base weight but they now wish to offer this version onto the ZX670/870 and EX1200 machines. Kocurek have been chosen as the manufacture of these units because we are the only ones capable of offering them a telescopic boom and we have been entrusted with the first order on a Hitachi ZX670 which has been sold to end user in Southern Germany and will give the following duties:
- 34m working pin height operating a 3000 kgs attachment or a 4000 kgs attachment with the telescopic boom fully retracted.
- Standard equipment will incorporate a special boom foot extension giving a Triple Articulated Boom (TAB) arrangement to give (in the straight boom position) a working pin height of approximately 17m.
With the boom in the conventional position a digging depth (to the pin) of approximately 8m will be achieved. This arrangement will also allow the use of a heavy steel shear for extreme conditions.
We also have Kiesel’s second machine in our factory which is presently undergoing modifications as the first machine, to up-rate the boom hoist cylinders, lengthen and hydraulically extend the undercarriage and convert to hydraulically removable counterweight. A final decision has to be made on supply of heavy duty rig or the more popular telescopic boom.
25th June 2009
