Product of the Month – Genie Z80/60 cherry picker
The construction industry is expected to recover strongly in 2024, with sector growth of 12%, says construction data specialist Glenigan.
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That’s why we’re confident our Product of the Month for October, the Genie Z80/60 cherry picker, is going to remain one of the most popular large boom lifts in our access platform hire fleet.
Construction projects
The articulating boom lift delivers a maximum working height of 25.8m and a massive working outreach of 18.28m, making it a go-to platform for working on large construction projects.
Projects like building large warehouses – known in the trade as sheds – and logistics hubs are keeping the many of our cherry pickers busy, not least the Genie Z80/60.
It’s a diesel 4×4 rough terrain boom lift that is specifically designed to maximise the productivity of working at height for high reach applications.
Central to this is the Genie Z80/60’s FastMast system, which allows the operator to lower the basket to ground level without lowering the secondary boom.
This all but slices in half the time it takes for the basket to get down, for example to take on new tools or materials – and get back up to height to start the next task.
Planned maintenance
When it comes to large sheds, the Genie Z80/60’s capabilities make it ideal for supporting steel erection, installing of curtain walling, final fit-outs and pre-handover structural inspections.
Likewise, once logistics depots and warehouses are completed and operational, tall cherry pickers like the Z80/60 can be essential to carry out inspections and planned maintenance.
The boom lift has oscillating axles with full-time positive traction to assist in working across rough ground, plus four steering modes – front, rear, crab and coordinated – for accurate MEWP positioning in all conditions.
The turntable rotates continuously through 3600 while the platform rotates through 1600 and its vertical jib can also rotate through 1350. This means the operative can position the basket with millimetre precision.
As well as having an impressive maximum working height, the Genie Z80/60 also provides negative reach up to 4.83m below ground level at a horizontal reach of 12.19m.
Multiple sectors
Meanwhile, the platform’s reverse articulating secondary boom provides a maximum up and over clearance is 8.83m.
At this working height, the boom’s horizontal reach of over 17m, allowing work to be carried on structures set back from obstacles that could include up to two-storey buildings, pipework or machinery.
The basket of Hird’s Genie Z80/60 cherry picker has a capacity of 227kg. Safe and productive working is supported by the platform’s self-levelling capability and proportional controls.
While hire customers from the construction sector make up the highest proportion of the MEWP’s users – it is also kept busy in other fields (literally) including wind turbine installation and maintenance, and petrochemical site maintenance.
Wide boom range
The Genie Z80/60 is just one of a number of highly capable models in Hird’s diesel boom lift fleet – others include the Genie S65, a telescopic boom with a working height of 21.8m, the Genie Z62/40, with a working height up to 20.9m and the Genie Z34/22 IC, which delivers a working height up to 12.5m.
We also supply bi-energy and battery electric cherry pickers, notably the Genie S60FE, an impressive hybrid all-terrain boom with a maximum working height of 20.6m, and the Manitou 200ATJ-E, an all-electric rough terrain boom lift with a maximum working height of 20m.
Find out more
Talk to our expert technical team about hiring the Genie Z80/60 cherry picker. It can be delivered for service across the UK. Hird is also a leading IPAF training provider, delivering courses across all MEWP types.
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