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| Liebherr-branded
box. |
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| Instruction
sheet. |
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| Some of the parts
out of the box. |
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| Three different
boom sizes fit inside each other to minimise transport.
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| Fixed jib
without the Y-Guy arrangement in use. |
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| When the kit is
added to the luffing
jib kit a massive model results. |
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| Luffer extended
with the 36m kit. |
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| Intermediate
jib support cables work well. |
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This kit provides a 36m lattice jib
extension kit for the Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 base model. The
review kit is in Liebherr yellow.
Packaging
The kit comes in a Liebherr-styled box containing an expanded polystyrene tray
with lid.
The box has a photo of the model parts but it shows
extra short pendant bars that are not actually in the
kit. Many of the parts are wrapped in tissue, and there
were no defects or missing parts in the review set.
A two page instruction sheet is provided, and it is in
German and English. It includes a photo of the tray
with
the main parts annotated. The assembly of the
maximum size luffing jib created by the kit is described.
Assembly is straightforward and the resulting model is
huge. As with the base
model tiny brass
nuts and bolts are used to make connections and plenty
of spares are provided. For more
assembly information watch the video review.
No information is provided about the real jib so
it misses some information about the different
configurations that are possible with the kit.
Detail
The parts are high quality and the jib sections are cast
perfectly straight. Some of them have internal bracing
at one end of the section. The brass nuts and bolts are
small and discrete so they do not affect the look,
although black or silver might have been
better.
The pendants are metal and are preassembled to suit the
maximum assembly configuration using brass bolts so they
are easily taken apart.
Features
The kit is designed to extend the 54m luffing jib and it
achieves this objective well. When fully erected the
model is well over 3m tall.
However it has use without the 54m kit as the jib
sections can be used as transport loads, or it can be
combined with the base model to make combinations of
fixed lattice jib.
Quality
The standard of manufacture is very good with the parts
fitting well.
The paintwork is very good. There was a very
slight colour variation in the yellow between the kit
parts and the lattice mast section of the base model,
although it is barely noticeable.
Price
The kit is very good value for the parts supplied.
Overall
This is a useful kit to extend the 54m luffing jib, and
a second 36m kit could be used to extend it even further
to achieve a scale version of the maximum 192m height of
the real crane. It is also useful even without the
54m jib as truck fans will find it a reasonable way to
obtain transport loads and it can also be used to extend
the base model with a longer fixed jib. It is highly recommended.
Footnotes
The jib extension first appeared as a prototype at the
Nuremberg Toy Fair in February 2011, and became
available in October 2011. The 54m luffing jib kit was produced as model number
7322. Extension jib
kits
were also produced in black and Mammoet colours.
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| The tray. |
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| Good transport
load for a
Nooteboom
trailer. |
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| Using the kit
and the base model a fixed jib can be assembled. |
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| Fixed jib
looks good. |
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| Great
engineering means the model looks real. |
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| Yes, it really
is this big. |
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