Lang's new Mack toy carrier

Here is a pic of mine.

Thanks Cobba

Looks abut the same weight as mine. What is the spring rod thickness.

Lang

I will measure it tomorrow for you. I will scrape off the 20 layers of paint first.

Got my crane today. Probably a bit bigger than required but beat them down to $1,000 for a very lightly used unit. Only reason for selling is the outrageous cost of recertification.

It is a German C3500 Atlas. Will lift 1.3 tonnes at 6.5 metres. Not sure whether it has the pull-out fly to give me nearly 8 metres. Good thing about it is the oil tank is on the crane saving all the work, sourcing a tank and plumbing it in for the usual remote system.

Should fit on quickly behind the Mack cab. Here is a C3500 on a truck.

You have done well.

Do you have the pump for the transmission?

Will you make the support brackets for the chassis or were you lucky enough to get them with the crane?

Had a look at a couple of trucks and they just have about 750mm long 75mm square heavy wall tube sitting on the chassis rail to spread the weight. There should be no weight on the chassis on a big lift, it all should be on the legs. Most have a crush block in the chassis rail to stop the U-bolts bending the flanges. Actually they are just through bolts with plates rather than u-bolts.

Still looking for a 3 bolt female spline pump to go on the PTO already on the transmission. The blokes in Wagga have them but hoping to find a second hand one.

Lang

Atlas is a good solid crane,but heavy ......biggest fault IMHO ,is the tendency for the folded up crane to damage the main lift ram ......even slightly extended the end of the boom hits the chrome ...very easy to do,if you dont secure the catch before folding..........I bought a lot of double extension booms and bits from the railways years ago ...they had engineered their own extra hydraulic extension for the 30-06 Atlas cranes they had.

Lang, That looks like a great buy. You will need a crane to lift it onto Froggie Dog. It will make a great display at truck shows and even at Clearing Sales.:ohmy:

I see lots of trucks about with old cranes ...dunno how the 'cranesafe" applies to truck cranes in Qld ......maybe you can sneak in under the 3 ton limit ?.....Used to do the inspections on travel lifts at the sandblasters ,everthing stripped ,sandblasted ,x rayed welds and stress points ,hydraulics all gone through and replaced .........funny thing was Col bought a 24 ton 4 wheeler cherry picker from a dealer in Sydney ,with a just done 10 year inspection ,and underneath the machine was all old hoses,slew circle bolts ,nothing touched in the way of replacements.......on top ,all the hoses were painted black to seem new.

John

It will just be a Special Interest registered vehicle. The crane is only for show and will never be used.

lang