We'd use the Maros one back in the day. Had about 120' pin jib plus fly.
Carrier was re-powered with a 5-cylinder UD, crane power was an ancient Perkins.
Nothing hydraulic at all, manual outriggers the lot.
Painfully slow on the road so it got floated everywhere and their semi followed with the jib.
Would take a few hours to set up and that Perkins really struggled to lift the jib from horizontal.
The rest of the day it just idled with the winches clunk clunking over.
Only used on jobs that need a big reach and many times we'd all be sitting on the outrigger to make a distant lift.
Hydro crane was always the preferred unit but lost so much capacity due to the weight in the boom compared to these old things.
With today's OH&S, I can't see an old crane like this one ever passing a machinery again?
