Product of the Month – Valla V130RX pick and carry crane

Here is a crane lifting conundrum. You need to hire a pick and carry crane of a particularly compact size to get into a tight spot to carry out a lift.

Then, to carry out the lift, the crane needs to be slighter bigger. That is the challenge solved by the Valla V130RX mini crane.

Its Transformer-like qualities – created by its extending chassis – gives the electric pick and carry crane a very positive edge in challenging lifting conditions.

The Valla V130RX is one of the latest Valla V Series cranes to be added to Hird’s expanding pick and carry hire fleet, and is already very popular with customers.

Multiple lifting options

The Valla V130RX has so many lifting set-ups that our specification sheet extends (I see what you’re doing there – Ed) to 33 pages.

Though the compact industrial crane is as intuitive and easy to use, with the right training and experience, as all other Valla pick and carry cranes.

As well as having an extending chassis – the X in its name stands for extending – the mini crane can be operated:

Free-on-wheels
With a front stabiliser bar deployed to increase lifting duties
With a fixed hook, winch or hook block
And with a choice of three jib head positions

The mini crane is just 1525mm wide, yet has a maximum safe working load (SWL) of 13t, a maximum working height of 10.5m (SWL: 8.2t), and a maximum radius of 6.2m (SWL: 3.3t).

With its hydraulic fly jib deployed it has a maximum radius of 8m (SWL: 2.3t) and a maximum working height of 12.5m (SWL: 4.2t).

As well as being very narrow for its lifting capabilities, it is also just 1981mm high. That is half a metre less than a conventional cabbed pick and carry crane with a comparable maximum SWL, allowing it to be moved through height-restricted spaces to lift sites.

Cool crane innovation lifts chiller

However, the really cool innovation Valla has built into the design is its extending chassis. With the chassis closed, the crane is 3709mm long. Extending it adds 700mm to its length, taking it to 4407mm.

This is a crucial advantage that was put to good use during a machinery moving project to replace a chiller unit at a warehouse in the East Midlands.

The narrow width of the crane’s chassis allowed it to be positioned as close as possible to the lift point in a main access route inside the warehouse, while still leaving space for forklift trucks to move past.

With the fly-jib deployed and the chassis extended, the Valla V130RX could be boomed out to a radius of 5m, and a maximum tip height of 4m, which provided a maximum SLW of 2.8t.

This was comfortability within the limit needed to safely lift out the old chiller unit and lift in the new one.

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Near-silent low carbon lifting

The pick and carry crane comes with many other features incorporated into the Valla V Series, which has been designed to make lifting easier, safer and more productive.

Like all the Valla V Series cranes, it is battery electric powered, so provides near-silent, zero fumes lifting duties, with a very small carbon footprint.

This, combined with its non-marking tyres, makes the mini crane ideal for operation in indoor and clean industrial environments.

The Valla V130RX is also a cabless crane. The operator controls it with a wireless remote control unit, so they can always position themselves in the optimum location to manage the lift.

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Biggest V crane fleet in Europe

It should be noted, some cranes in Hird’s Valla V Series fleet do have cabs. But they also have the option of being controlled with a wireless remote unit.

In fact, Hird has the largest fleet of Valla V Series cranes in Europe, with SLWs from 3.6t, in the Valla V36R, to 21t, in the Valla V210RC (the C stands for cab).

The company also offers a fleet of Valla E Series cranes for hire, with SWLs from 2t to 25t. These are also battery electric and ideal for both indoor and outdoor lifting.