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| The Mammoet PTC, nearly 2m tall. |
WSI 410006 -
Mammoet PTC
Crane
Model Review August 2008
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| The Mammoet PTC, nearly 2m tall. |
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| On the side of the box it says 'Size Does Matter'. It must do, because this is the biggest model box seen by Cranes Etc. |
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The top tray has the toolkit, and back mast and boom parts. |
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| The second tray holds the giant upper structure. |
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| The third tray holds the main boom parts and the hooks. |
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| The bottom tray has the ring and all of the counterweight pieces. |
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| The literature, DVD and toolkit. |
The Mammoet PTC Crane is a very large machine which has been specially built by Mammoet, the worldwide heavy lifting and transportation specialist company headquartered in Holland. The acronym PTC stands for Platform Twinring Containerised. As the user of the crane, Mammoet were able to specify the requirements of the crane more precisely than buying a standard machine from an industry supplier.
The key features of the machine are that it can lift up 1600 tonnes at 20m radius with an 80m main boom. It can have a combined boom and jib height of over 170m at the maximum. The small runner line on its own has a lifting capacity of 45 tonnes. The PTC has been designed to be readily transportable so all the parts breakdown into standard shipping container sizes for easy transportation. As a heavy lifting machine it is used particularly in the petrochemical and power industries where large lifting capacities are demanded.
Four PTC cranes have been built and this is a model of PTC III, which is named 'Amalia'.
This model is in 1:50 scale and is made by WSI in China for Mammoet. As the real crane is enormous this scale model is huge too and at the time of the review ranks as the largest mass-produced scale model yet produced.
Packaging
The model comes in a single gigantic box measuring 62cm x 71cm x 50cm (25in x 28in x 20in) which weighs in at around 27kg. As such, it befits the model inside although perhaps the box is a little too large as some collectors will have difficulty finding a place to store a box of this size. Inside the box is a colourful Mammoet sleeve which encloses four large expanded polystyrene trays. Inspection of the trays reveals why the box has such large dimensions. Both the ring and the upper structure pieces are fully assembled and this governs the box dimensions. Within the trays many of the parts are individually wrapped and well protected.
