HAMMAR has released a new design for a side lifter that not only allows extra flexibility when handling loads, but enables three high stacking.
The new Hammar Mega Reach is not only able to stack three high, but can also handle containers in a second row on the ground. It is also capable of double stacking containers in the second row.
That makes a total of five containers are now within the lifting reach of the new Hammar Mega Reach without having to move the vehicle.
The first Mega Reach sideloader has already been built and is operating in Hammar’s home market in Sweden and it is going to be available in New Zealand.
The Mega Reach has been designed for the 150- and the 190-series, which, for the New Zealand market means the 151 HS, 155 HS (Mega Transfer) and the 195 S.
The idea for the Mega Reach came from a customer in French Guiana, who had noticed an extendable top arm that Hammar has fitted as an option for many years and asked if an extension could be added that handles containers in the second row for optimising handling in a customer yard.
Fred Sandberg, managing director of Hammar New Zealand, says the Mega Reach would be particularly useful in small, confined areas where truck access is limited.
“For example, an operator arriving at a customer’s depot to deliver an empty box and pick up a full one, would park next to the full box, unload the empty one on the other side (in the second row) and then pick up the full box, without having to move the vehicle,” he says.
“Other uses could be in a yard moving and storing containers – actually I had a customer who named it the Hammar Reach Stacker.”
The Mega Reach shown in the photos is built on a brand new 2012 Hammar 195 HA, 20’-45’ capacity and 36-tonne SWL sideloader. The chassis is an ‘A’ type, built in three extendable parts to be extra short in the 20’ position and handling 45’ containers in the full, extended position.
