Tower crane
Serving a building site continuously, from a fixed point.
Erection, dismantling, footprint:
it is justified only over time.
Other names for this machine: site crane, fixed crane.
- Category
- CACES R.487
- Status
- Does not carry interchangeable attachments
What it does
it does not move — it is the site that comes to it.
Serving a building site continuously from a fixed point.
What it does not do. Erection, dismantling, footprint:
it is justified only over time.
they set what the jib can carry, and at what distance.
Synthetic image.
What decides its use
- The volume and the distance They are what decide whether this machine has a place on the site, or whether another will do the same work for less.
- The room available A machine that cannot manoeuvre does not produce, whatever its capacity.
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The rate of the neighbouring machines
It is rarely calculated and often costs more than the hire:
a machine that waits costs as much as a machine that works. - Transport to the worksite It governs what can actually be sent, and it is settled before everything else.
One model, as a reference point
The values below hold for this model only.
They are there to give an order of magnitude to anyone who has none, not to serve as a reference.
- Maximum capacity
- 10 t
- Load at the jib end
- 1,9 t
- Maximum reach
- 65 m
- Height under hook
- up to 70.4 m depending on the base
Caveat. The gap between 10 t at the closest point and 1.9 t at the jib end says it all:
on a crane as on an excavator, it is the reach that governs, never the capacity shown.
Source. Manufacturer's product page, Manitowoc group,
recorded on 1 September 2026.
These values are those of one precise model, at one precise date. They do not describe a category:
there are no characteristics of a compact loader in general, there are those of the model you have.
They change from one year to the next and never replace the data sheet of your machine.
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