Cranes
Sound economic management has placed Goldfields Crane Hire in a position where it is readily able to hire or purchase additional equipment to cater for specific and specialist requirements or to respond to unforeseen circumstances.
Goldfields Crane Hire owns and operates all PVE to carry out its role. It maintains eleven (11) modern and efficient cranes, lifting and rigging gear and standard industry ancillary equipment.
See our news page for details of the latest additions to the fleet.
Significant Cranes
Kalgoorlie Depot
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2005 220t GROVE GMK 6220 ALL TERRAIN |
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| 160 tonne Load Charts | |
| 140 tonne Load Charts | |
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2001 100t GROVE GMK 5100 ALL TERRAIN |
| 100 tonne Load Charts | |
| 70 tonne Load Charts | |
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2001 80t LIEBHERR LTM 1080 ALL TERRAIN |
| 80 tonne Load Charts | |
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2004 55t TADANO GT550 TRUCK MOUNTED |
| 55 tonne Load Charts | |
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1998 50t TADANO TG500-E3U TRUCK MOUNTED |
| 50 tonne Load Charts | |
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2004 25t FRANNA MAC 25 ALL TERRAIN |
| 25 tonne Load Charts | |
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2003 20t FRANNA AT 20 ALL TERRAIN |
| 20 tonne Load Charts | |
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1994 12t FRANNA AT 12 ALL TERRAIN |
| 12 tonne Load Charts | |
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Access Equipment
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GENIE Z-60/34 |
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GENIE Z-80/60 |
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Kambalda Depot
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2003 20t FRANNA AT 20 ALL TERRAIN |
| UNDERGROUND SPEC 20 tonne Load Charts |
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Laverton Depot
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1994 50t Kato NK5000 ALL TERRAIN |
| 50 tonne Load Charts | |
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2003 20t FRANNA AT 20 ALL TERRAIN |
| 20 tonne Load Charts | |
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Ravensthorpe Depot
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2004 55t TADANO GT550 TRUCK MOUNTED |
| 55 tonne Load Charts | |
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2005 50t TADANO TR500 ROUGH TERRAIN |
| 50 tonne Load Charts | |
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2003 20t FRANNA AT 20 ALL TERRAIN |
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Crane Safety
New Regulations
Regulations came into effect in October 2003 affecting the operation of cranes on Western Australian building and construction sites. While these regulations only relate to building and construction sites, Goldfields Crane Hire has implemented these requirements to all cranes.
Audible and Visual Alarm Requirements
All cranes, other than non-slewing cranes, need to be fitted with external rated capacity indicator lighting and audible alarms.
The new provisions set out requirements for:
- Green, amber and red lights to be emitted according to the percentage of the crane's rated capacity being lifted; and
- Audible alarms to be fitted inside and outside the crane and be affective only if a load being lifted by the crane is greater than 100% of the crane's rated capacity.
- Green lights represent up to 90% of rated load.
- Amber lights represent between 90% & 100%.
- Red light and audible alarm represent overload.
Safety Management
Our Safety Management Systems allow for these requirements as follows:
- Lifts within the 90% of rated load are rated as Standard Lift (Job Hazard Analaysis if required).
- Lifts in the range of 90–100% are rated as Critical Lift (JHA & Lift Study required).
These requirements ensure we supply the correct size crane to perform all tasks safely.
CraneSafe
The mobile crane industry has initiated a voluntary crane assessment program throughout Australia. Developed in consultation with the mobile crane industry as a whole, the program aims to augment existing safety standards with annual assessments of mobile cranes now being made by CraneSafe (a division of the Crane Industry Council of Australia).
The CraneSafe assessment program provides crane owners and operators with a:
- Process for third party assessment of safety aspects of their cranes.
- Common, industry-wide system for assessment of their cranes.
- Single method by which crane operators and owners can fulfil their relevant duty of care obligations under Occupational Health and Safety and Safety Acts (OH&S).
Goldfields Crane Hire has implemented the CraneSafe assessment program to ensure all their mobile cranes are maintained and kept in excellent safe working condition.
Ancillary Equipment
GCH have a wide range of Ancillary Lifting Equipment. All equipment is approved, tested and certified before use and then inspected quarterly. GCH only purchase modern lifting equipment, including RUD & GUNNEBO grade 100 chain. We have implemented our own tagging system (as pictured) which enables us to tag equipment when inspected in line with electrical colour coding.
- Red: January–March
- Green: April–June
- Blue: July–September
- Yellow: October–December
All information is logged in an inspection card, and filed in each crane or
rigging loft.
Equipment includes:
- Spreader Bars ranging in capacities of 12–50 tonnes
- drum & pallet lifters
- one & two person work baskets
- specialised slinging arrangements
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