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CAPITAL EQUIPMENT NEWS
JANUARY 2015
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ABA ADDS 13
TH
GROVE
to its UK fleet
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BA Cranes Ltd, one of the UK’s larg-
est crane hire companies, has added
a fourth Grove GMK4100L all-terrain
crane to its fleet. The latest unit arrived in
September, bringing the company’s total
fleet of Grove cranes to 13, which it pro-
vides to a wide variety of job sites across
the midlands.
ABA’s Grove cranes are always at work.
The only time they spend at their base in
Bloxwich is for routine maintenance, which
company manager Dale England is delight-
ed with.
“We keep buying Grove cranes because we
know they earn their keep,” he says. “They
are very versatile units that are quick to set-
up and easy to use. Hardly ever seeing them
means they are doing a good job and I am
sure we will buy more Grove cranes in the
future.”
ABA bought its first Grove crane in the year
2000. Since then, the company has regu-
larly added to its fleet, which now includes
cranes with capacities from 35 t to 130 t.
The company bought its first Grove GM-
K4100L in 2007.
The Grove cranes are deployed at a wide
range of construction and individual lift
projects. Recent jobs have seen the cranes
install an industrial chimney stack at a pro-
cessing plant, lift pre-fabricated structures
and general materials at a residential de-
velopment, and placing static caravans at
a holiday park.
Grove’s GMK4100L is a 100 t capacity,
four-axle, all-terrain crane. It offers an im-
pressive 60 m main boom, which can be
extended to 77 m with a jib. The GMK4100L
is built at Grove’s manufacturing plant in
Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Established in 1980, ABA has more than
35 employees. The company’s 28 operators
tend to stick to the same crane, making
that specific unit their specialised tool, and
speeding up work at the job site.
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