Knuckle boom crane
Knuckle Boom Crane
A Knuckle Boom Crane for Every Application
HIAB has the best Knuckle Boom Cranes that come in all shapes and sizes. To find out which HIAB crane best fits your industry application, click on the link below and select your industry.
HIAB Knuckle Boom Cranes
Light Duty Knuckle Boom Cranes
Lift and move different types of goods or hold items in place as you work on them with Hiab's range of light duty and small knuckle-boom cranes. Choose from stiff boom or smaller knuckle-boom cranes to compliment your existing tools. Versaitile and able to fit on most small to medium vehicles.
Medium Duty Knuckle Boom Cranes
Versatility is the name of the game with a variety of setups to choose from to give an optimal crane configuration. Strike a balance between crane and payload space by choosing from different setups including a knuckle boom crane, longer extension and folding. A Hiab medium duty crane makes light work out of even the most complicated jobs.
K-Cranes Range
The HIAB K-HiPro Crane range has been specifically designed for handling drywall materials, while optimizing the truck's payload due to its light weight design. This drywall crane delivers excellent lifting capacity and fast load-cycles with close-in reach and hydraulic forks ideal for this type of use.
Heavy Range Knuckle Boom Cranes
When your primary business needs a large knuckle boom crane, look no further. Outstanding performance, power and finesse all rolled into versatile and reliable packages. Custom a knuckle-boom crane, short-boom crane or long-boom crane to suit complex manoeuvring, construction jobs, or tricky rescue and salvage operations.
Super Heavy Knuckle Boom Cranes
Industry super heavyweight champion have built in maximum reach and lifting performance, with an incredibly light design for their power. Engineering balance between performance and payload is unrivaled and inhouse package designs add extra stability where others fail. This is Hiab's largest knuckle boom crane.
Knuckle Boom Cranes - Frequently Asked Questions
What is a knuckle boom crane?
A knuckle boom crane, (also known as an articulating crane), is a category of truck-mounted equipment used for lifting heavy loads. Knuckle boom cranes are designed to be lightweight and highly maneuverable performing work at the boom tip with a wide range of attachments.
What is a knuckle boom loader?
A knuckle boom loader is a separate category of truck-mounted equipment specifically designed for material handling and loading. For example, loading logs into trucks, loading recycling materials, etc. The loaders’ hydraulic arms are used to lift the materials. For example lifting a log from the ground and placeing it inside the truck, or vice versa, lifting the log from the truck back to the ground.
What is a boom in a knuckle boom crane?
A crane boom is the long arm part of a crane that stretches into the sky. All cranes have a boom. There are many types of crane booms, including: telescopic straight-boom, stiff-boom, and knuckle-boom. The construction and length of the crane boom determines the crane’s structural reach and capacity.
Do you need a license to drive a Knuckle Boom Crane?
Yes, OSHA 29 CFR part 1926 requires that all knuckle boom crane operations relating to construction and building in any form must be carried out by NCCCO operator certified operators.
What are the advantages of a knuckle boom crane?
Utilizing a knuckle boom crane offers numerous advantages. These advantages include an articulated design, fast load cycles, compact size, extended reach and lifting capabilities, versatility and adaptability, ease of transportation, and improved safety compared to traditional cranes.
Knuckle Boom Crane Features That Optimize Operations
HiConnect Remote Connectivity
HIAB HiConnect™ is a web-based dashboard that displays insights on equipment usage, location, time in operation, idle time, and productivity level. By enabling new insights, it helps you to further increase efficiency, productivity, and safety. HiConnect is the latest technology in terms of connectivity capabilities. Being able to remotely access data is key to maximizing your business with facts instead of assumptions. HiConnect maintains constant contact with all units, giving fleet managers the ability to stop unsafe behavior and usage before an incident happens. With the ability to view service history and plan upcoming services, your fleet has minimum downtime and increases daily efficiencies.
HiPro Control System
The HiPro control system with Overload Protection (OLP) is standard on all K-Cranes and brings an unprecedented level of safety to operations without reducing performance. When approaching an overload condition, the knuckle boom crane gives an audible and visual signal at 90% and will stop all radius increasing functions once full capacity has been reached. Automatic Speed Control (ASC) reduces dynamic loading by progressively reducing the speed of the knuckle boom crane when the capacity is between 80% and 100%, preventing operators from performing unsafe, abrupt movements.
Variable Stability Limit
HIAB’s Variable Stability Limit system (VSL) monitors the truck’s stability by registering the extension of stabilizers and monitoring the pressures at each leg to determine the maximum safe capacity of the knuckle boom crane, allowing for higher capacities in situations where the legs are not able to be fully extended. VSL and VSL Plus are available on all Hiab K-HiPro cranes (285, 425 and 505) with VSL Plus available for the 505, which compensates for the weight of the load on the truck, offering even greater lifting capacities, increasing the efficiency of any business.
Load Stability System
Load Stability System (LSS-V) provides smoother, more precise vertical boom motions. If an operator performs a hard stop while raising or lowering a load, the LSS-V system controls boom movement, minimizing the bouncing of the boom and load, while preventing load damage and unnecessary stress on the knuckle boom crane’s components. This feature works in the background to smooth out boom functions allowing for easier placement of the load, making deliveries faster and more efficient. By controlling boom movement and minimizing the bounce of the boom, the structural stress is reduced, thus increasing the expected service life of the knuckle boom crane.
Crane Tip Control
Crane Tip Control (CTC) is an optional feature available for the 285 and 425 cranes. It allows the knuckle boom crane’s controls to be controlled by three levers – the horizontal extension from the truck, the vertical lift, and the rotation of the crane. CTC provides a simplified operation, reducing training time when onboarding new operators, while allowing operators to perform complex techniques safely and efficiently.
Semi Automatic Folding
Semi Automatic Folding (SAF) simplifies the stowing process reducing it to a single-lever operation, protecting the knuckle boom crane and the knuckle boom truck from damage. It allows a single lever operation to fold and unfold the crane, while activating just one lever, which greatly simplifies this frequent routine operating task.
CombiDrive3 Remote Control
The HIAB CombiDrive3 remote control increases efficiency by giving the operator freedom of movement to use the best possible position to view the load. It comes standard with a 100%, 70%, or 50% speed switch. This feature allows the operator to easily change the speed of the knuckle boom crane - especially useful when adjusting heavy loads at long outreaches. The HIAB CombiDrive3 remote control is reliable and worry-free industrial component designed to last the life of the crane.
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Choosing a control system is an important part of purchasing your new HIAB Knuckle Boom Crane. Our industry leading control systems are known for their precision, smooth operations, and ultimate efficiency. They allow simultaneous movements and offer both reliability and ease of use. As a result, our control systems offer increased capacity and the highest level of safety and precision when you need it.
Customize your Knuckle Boom Crane With Crane Attachments
Adding a knuckle boom crane attachment provides flexibility to carry out several types of jobs according to customer demand and opportunities. A HIAB Knuckle Boom Crane becomes a true working tool that can be adapted to work in situations that require different types of tools and that easily fit to different industry uses.
Industry Challenges
Safety
Hiab's industry leading technology provides world class, industry leading safety features that keep operators safe and in control, minimizing risk to individuals or the environment. With the smart technology solutions of HIAB’s loader cranes and MOFFETT truck mounted forklifts, human driven errors and unsafe operations are reduced.
Efficiency
Downtime
Training
Training and educating operators takes time, but Hiab's advanced control systems and technology allows customers to manage their resources in the best way, whether the operator is highly experienced or a new employee without losing too much time.
Reliability
Hiab loader cranes and MOFFETT truck mounted forklifts are the industry leaders in the area of reliability. Our premium engineering and cutting edge operation management features ensure optimum longevity and service life of your equipment. All backed up with the most comprehensive warranty in the market.
Revenue
Hiab loader cranes and MOFFETT truck mounted forklifts provide many cost benefits that are ideal for businesses with repetitive, efficient operations. With a reliable design, quality materials, game changing smart technology, and industry specific innovation, investing in Hiab equipment provides a total package for any industry.
Industry Leading Warranties
Saying you are confident in your product is one thing, warranting it is another. All Hiab Cranes come with a 2-year warranty on the entire product (3-year on a Drywall K-Crane) with the warranty on the structural parts is extended to 5-years. Meaning, Hiab covers repair or replacement of components for 2-3 years on all components and up to 5-years on main structural components. There's no better or more comprehensive warranty in our Industry! Certain normal exceptions, such as replacement of consumables, apply.