Glazing Works
By using vacuum glass handlers hung from the hook block or installed on a searcher hook, glass can be installed where required, even just beneath the roof. Mini cranes are also suited to lifting operations in indoor, confined spaces, narrow spaces, and narrow pathway places. The MK knuckleboom series was born to realize more efficient glazing works.
Curtain Wall Installation
Mini cranes can be transported to the upper floors of high rise buildings by service elevators and then used for installation works of outer walls, such as glass frames, by hoisting the wire rope from above in several stages. This is one of the most popular applications for mini cranes as it can create shorter construction periods and cut costs by avoiding the use of expensive tower cranes.
Restricted Access
Even in confined places or spaces with obstacles, our mini cranes play an important role in safety with four supportive outriggers. By using the working range restriction feature, contact with obstacles like power lines is avoided, allowing safe lifting work.
Rooftop Work
Lightweight mini cranes can be placed on rooftops to lift materials from the ground. There is no need to block roads for the use of bigger cranes, and works normally carried out by tower cranes can be taken on by mini cranes. This enables shorter construction periods and cost cuttings to be achieved. Mini cranes can be lifted up to rooftops easily by tower cranes or elevators.
Steel Erection & Building Construction
Mini cranes are suitable for steel erection works inside various buildings and on rooftops, and for steel tower erection works.
Civil Construction
Compact cranes are perfect for lifting construction materials at airports, train stations, dam construction sites and many more. With their advantageous accessibility to confined places, mini cranes have been used during the construction of many world famous facilities.
Residential Construction
These cranes are perfect for residential material lifting from inside and outside of residences. Granting easy access from the edge of cliffs through to courtyards is our mini cranes’ specialty – something which bigger cranes simply cannot do.
Plant, Factory & Automotive
These small but mighty machines are well-suited for the maintenance of equipment, line replacement, and material lifting in areas where overhead cranes are unavailable or space is limited, such as automotive manufacturers, chemical plants, and factories.
Limited Access
The slim design of our mini cranes allows easy access through doorways, enabling work to be performed indoors or in restricted areas. At construction sites where larger cranes would require road closures, mini cranes offer a cost-effective alternative with their compact form and easy manoeuvrability.
Facility Equipment Installation
Thanks to their great manoeuvrability, Maeda’s mini cranes are used for the installation of display panels, signs, and more at large commercial building such as shopping malls, stadiums, and theatres.
Artwork Installation
Artwork installation in buildings can be challenging due to restricted access in areas like museums and inner courtyards. The smooth manoeuvrability of mini cranes makes handling delicate artworks possible, while the electric motor option ensures zero emissions, making it ideal for indoor work.
Aviation Industry
Maeda mini cranes are well suited for dock maintenance and component replacement for airplanes and helicopters inside maintenance facilities. Our compact mini spiders have even been transported by aircraft to remote locations for maintenance work.
Stonework
Maeda mini cranes were born out of the need for a machine that could access extremely narrow passageways in graveyards. Now they are used for the installation of gravestones, garden stones, and monumental stones all over the world.
Power Stations
These machines are well-suited for power stations and substations, where power lines are all over the place. The computerised working range restriction feature prevents booms from connecting with power lines, allowing lifting works to be carried out safely.
Oil & Gas Industry
Because of its compact body, transportation to mining locations is very easy. Mini cranes are used at oil rigs in the middle of jungles, and for resource development, refinery, gas plant and mining facilities.
Tunnel / Underground
Mini cranes are often used for works inside tunnels for subway, underground road, underground facility, water line and electrical line where working space is limited.
Railway
Mini cranes are suitable for material lifting and maintenance from the side of the rail road and even on the rail road.
Works on Uneven Ground
With their crawler tracks, mini cranes can access the most uneven ground. These cranes can be balanced at a level position using the four outriggers. They can even be used on stairs and uneven ground.
Military
Maeda mini cranes are used for maintenance work on military helicopters. Compact and lightweight, these machines are often transported to remote locations for use.
Zero Emissions
Mini Cranes and the Oktopus Glass Handling rigs are back at it again.
The perfect combo, our Maeda SuperCrane™ 285 delivers on a particularly precarious lift, utilising the SuperGlassHandling™ GL-N 800 to install a few entry statement glass panels down on the waterfront at Bundall 🤙
Forestry
Even on mountains where access is difficult with hilly terrain and no paved surfaces, mini spider cranes are used to lift cut lumbers.
Marine Construction, Ship Building and On Board Ships
Compact and lightweight, mini cranes play an active part during lifting works carried out at coastal locations, shipyards, and onboard ships.
