A crane truck for sale is one of the most useful pieces of construction machinery that you will ever buy. The crane truck gives you all of the benefits of a mobile machine with the lifting strength of a stationary crane. If you want to know more about the mechanical wonders of a truck-mounted crane then keep on reading.

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What is a truck crane?

Truck cranes, also known as crane trucks or truck-mounted cranes, are vehicles that have a crane either on the rear end or behind the cab. Truck cranes are vehicles with a hydraulic operated boom. Rubber wheels are one of the truck's most valuable features since they make moving loads from one end to the other easy.

The history of the mobile crane

Mobile cranes were first used in World War I to move the heavy machinery that was used to dig trenches and bunkers. There were a large amount of different designs like rubberized tracks, lightweight steel and rubber hybrid designs. These all were a big issue when it came to driving these vehicles on tarred roads. A very simple but effective design came when someone decided to mount a crane on a car chassis and the truck-mounted crane was born. Once this design was seen to work, almost every country had their own variation of the mobile crane. Today we have many variations of this machine.

How does a mobile crane work?

Truck-mounted cranes for sale work much like a tractor but instead of having tracks and a digger arms, these are replaced by tires and a crane arm. The tires allow the truck-mounted crane to operate on both the construction site and public areas like streets or built-up areas. Another benefit of the tires is the ability to move the truck from site to site along public roads without the need for a trailer.

Mobile Cranes also make use of outriggers that are part of the machine and can be deployed once the crane is in a stationary position. These outriggers allow the crane truck to remain stable and level. If these outriggers were not here, all of the load pressure would be placed on the tires and the truck would only be able to support what the tires can before they burst from the pressure.

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Few machines can replace the function of a good quality crane for sale. These machines can lift very heavy objects into the air and position them in a different area with little effort. Then you can easily pull the outriggers back in and move the truck to a different location.

The only issue with this kind of crane truck for sale is the lifting capacity. Due to the fact that rubber tires are used, the chassis can only support what the tires can. This is circumvented by the outriggers that actually lift the crane truck into the air and allow for the lifting of objects that the outriggers can support, which is a substantial amount more than what the tires themselves can support. So the problem is that the truck must wait for the outriggers to be deployed which can hinder building times and slow down production.