Knaack Liebherr LTC 1055 at Hanseboot

Hamburg-based crane company Knaack sent its Liebherr LTC 1055-3.1 into the exhibition halls, where it spent a total of two and a half weeks positioning boats on their exhibition spaces for the Hamburg, Germany boat show Hanseboot in November 2006, and then loaded them back on to the transporters after the show.

“I set up over 50 yachts and dinghies, and took them down again after Hanseboot,” says crane operator Lothar Seidenschnur. “I criss-crossed all over the exhibition halls in my LTC.” It is no secret that in trade fairs everything is squashed together with very little room to move. The LTC 1055-3.1 needed just 2.55 metres of horizontal and 3.2 metres of vertical clearance in order to get around. The heaviest boat that it carried weighed in at 17 tonnes, but this three-axle Liebherr crane was also the first choice when a small yacht weighing two or three tonnes needed lifting to a spot over 20 metres away. The crane comes with a 36m boom.


Knaack Liebherr LTC 1055 at Hanseboot Knaack Liebherr LTC 1055 at Hanseboot