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This year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrated 75 years of Porsche motor cars. Southern Cranes were hired by Littlehampton Welding to erect this year’s stunning centrepiece sculpture which featured six examples of different Porsche models from different eras and backgrounds.

We also used various telehandlers and telescopic booms to assist with a variety of lifts in and around the show ground.

Arrived today - the versatile, Liebherr LTM1055-3.2. One of many capable mobile cranes available for hire at Southern Cranes.

Just arrived - the versatile, 4-axle Liebherr LTM1070-4.2. The hydraulic TELEMATIK single-cylinder telescoping system ensures that the telescopic boom can be extended to the required length easily and automatically.

Another picture showing the delivery of the first LTM 1300-6.3 in the UK. In conjunction with our rebrand, the new crane is the first to boast the new design.

The six axle, single engine LTM 1300-6.3 is aversatile, economical fast-erecting crane whichfeatures all of the latest innovations to ensure safe, powerful crane operations: ECOmode, ECOdrive, VarioBase®Plus, VarioBallast®, Auto-Ballast and windspeed load charts.

The crane has a 90 metre main boom and has beensupplied with double fly jib with hydraulic control for offset as well as refinery kit and boom head camera.

We are delighted to announce the delivery of the Liebherr LTM 1300-6.3 to our fleet.

This highly versatile and capable six-axle crane is now sporting the fantastic new branding and livery being rolled out across Southern Cranes.

We are delighted to announce the delivery of the Liebherr LTM 1150-5.3 to our fleet.

The five axle crane is equipped with a 66 metre, seven section main boom plus a bi-fold swingaway extension that offsets by up to 40 degrees. A seven metre insert can be added to take the maximum tip height to almost 95 metres and maximum radius to 72 metres.

The crane also features Liebherr’s latest Variobase variable outrigger set up system.

We are proud to annouce the arrival of the Liebherr LTM1160-5.2 to our fleet – one of the strongest machines of its kind. This five-axle machine is equipped with 62-metres of main boom, VarioBase and VarioBallast.

We are proud to announce that the all-new LTC1050–3.1 City Crane has recently been added to our fleet. The crane is a highly versatile three-axle machine with 36-metres of main boom and the VarioBase outrigger system.

We are pleased to announce the arrival of our new Grove GMK5250XL – the first of its kind in the UK! The crane comes equipped with a 78.5-metre main boom and a 33.8-metre fully hydraulic luffing fly jib.