TRIO OF LATTICE BOOM CRAWLER CRANES LIFTS 728-TONNE RAILROAD BRIDGE - VERNAZZA AUTOGRU

VERNAZZA AUTOGRU USES TWO TADANO CC CRANES FOR THE JOB, WITH ITS

CC 68.1250-1 BEING THE “MAIN PROTAGONIST”

TRIO OF LATTICE BOOM CRAWLER CRANES LIFTS 728- TONNE RAILROAD BRIDGE

Even for a company as experienced as Vernazza, the job was anything but ordinary:

For starters, it involved a 728-tonne railroad bridge, which meant having to lift a

particularly heavy load in the Italian comune of Soave, close to San Bonifacio. In

addition, the 78 meter-long steel structure had to be positioned over the Alpone River.

This meant that the Vernazza crew would have to use three lattice boom crawler

cranes at the same time, with two of them on the right side of the river and one on the

opposite bank. As part of the corresponding plans, a Tadano CC 68.1250-1 would be

bearing the brunt of the work.

The team decided on the CC 68.1250-1 primarily due to its powerful performance

characteristics. After all, it had to first lift the bridge by itself to a height of 15 meters at a

radius of 20 meters and then travel 45 meters on double-layered red ironwood crane mats in

the direction of the Alpone River. To this end, the bridge was rigged at four points and the

crane was set up with an SSL configuration with a 72-meter-long main boom.

Once the CC 68.1250-1 reached its final position, the other two cranes joined in – one was a

Tadano CC 38.650-1 with a 68-meter-long boom, while the other was a 400-tonne crawler

crane with a 35-meter boom. These two cranes grabbed the ends of the bridge with their

hooks, which made it possible to maneuver the load with such precision that the Vernazza

assembly technicians were able to set it down exactly at the intended support points.

A perfectly planned lift

We are tremendously proud of our team and of how smoothly the complex lift went. Mauro

Milano underscores: “Even the planning stages were challenging. After all, it was a job that

involved three large lattice boom crawler cranes, so our engineers really had to go the extra

mile to make sure that all the booms and would be perfectly synchronized throughout”.

In addition, the results showed that the company had chosen the perfect crane for the

project. Above all, this served as further evidence of the fact that the Vernazza team’s

powerful CC 68.12501 is truly the machine of choice for tough jobs, which made the

Vernazza transport fleet’s roughly 200-km trip from Ravenna worth it. “We use our CC 68-

1250-1 regularly and benefit from its ease of assembly every single time. To put it simply, we

can fully set up the crane with a five-person team in about one weeks even under adverse

conditions.”

Tutto bene

The job in Soave required around 20 Vernazza employees for all three cranes. It took them a

variety of changing tasks and a total of two months at the work site, but everything worked

exactly as planned despite the tight schedule. Mauro Milano is pleased accordingly: “By

using the right machine and the right people, we finished the job to the full satisfaction of our customer – and that’s ultimately what it comes down to,” he succinctly puts it.

About Vernazza Autogru S.r.L.

Vernazza Autogru, which was founded in 1946 in Italy and today is a company with international operations, specializes in crane work, work at height with aerial work platforms, and transportation services. Vernazza is ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and BS OHSAS 18001 certified, and has a fleet that features around 200 state-of-the-art vehicles and machines. These include not only telescopic cranes, crawler cranes, and lattice boom crawler

cranes, but also self-propelled aerial work platforms, trucks, truck tractors, semi-trailers, and special transport vehicles. Vernazza Autogru provides its customers with full-service offerings that range from project studies, through planning, all the way to performing an extremely wide variety of projects. Within this context, the company is able to rely on its decades of experience, unrivaled specialized technical know-how, and highly qualified employees. It has branches in Italy, France, Monaco and Switzerland.

For more information, please visit www.vernazzautogru.com

About Tadano Europe

The Tadano Group operates 11 plants worldwide. It has a global network of more than 50 distribution companies and branches and employs over 4200 ambitious and experienced people.

Tadano in Europe is the Tadano Group’s center of excellence for the development and production of Tadano all terrain, City, crawler, and truck-mounted cranes. By combining German engineering and innovation with the strictest Japanese quality standards, the company produces cranes that enjoy an extraordinary reputation worldwide.

Tadano has two production facilities in Europe. Tadano Faun GmbH, which is headquartered in Lauf, has been part of the Tadano Group since 1990, while Zweibrücken-based Tadano Demag GmbH was acquired in 2019.

Together, the two plants have an area of 240,000 m² available for production, warehousing, and testing operations. The cranes produced in Europe are delivered to satisfied customers across the globe through the Tadano Group’s worldwide distribution and service network.

The companies that make up Tadano Europe embody the Tadano Group’s values with its philosophy of “Creation, Contribution, and Cooperation.” The core values of safety, quality, and efficiency, with compliance as an underlying foundation, are an integral part of all Tadano products and services. Against this backdrop, our worldwide distribution and service networks enable all Tadano companies to provide unrivalled customer satisfaction, perfect reliability, and extremely fast response times.

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Crane Hub Global - Crane News May 8, 2025