Kramer 30.8t lift capacity

[Salt'n'Pepper]

What is the most anyone has lifted with the above?

Thinking of trying to lift some concrete lego blocks with it,and have been told that they weigh more than 2 tonnes,though not sure by how much.
The book lift spec is 2tonnes,but in the past our old 750t could lift slightly more than the book spec,if some weights were attached to the rear.
Any info appreciated.

 

[Skimmer]

Just pay someone to do it for you not worth the risk of an accident or damage to machinery.

 

[TripleSix]

Handlers have a "rated capacity" which is safe design load.

The tipping load IE when the rear wheels leave the floor is a fair bit higher.

Depends how brave you are, don't do anything stupid.

Lifting with chains directly from the headstock or fork heels will gain you a bit of capacity as opposed to picking them up with the forks

 

[Salt'n'Pepper]

Local building contractor has turned up to replace some roof sheets,with a very large industrial loadall,so will have to wait till another time to find out its true limits
Thanks for all suggestions/advice

 

[Sparkplug]

If your Kramer is a basic 3 ton capacity, that is what it will lift on forks providing the load is no more than 1.00 mtr deep (ie 50 cm load centre) naturally fully retracted, as soon as you boom out your capacity starts to drop off, or if your load is say 1200 deep you are already not able to lift 3 ton, if you lift the boom up they usually lift the full capacity to max height (fully retracted of course) if with the boom right up and you start booming out the capacity will start to decline, SLI and common sense are essential when lifting high safely

 

[Salt'n'Pepper]

Update-Kramer 30.8 will lift a lego block, but only just-requires the engine running hard to lift it off the ground,but rear wheels were still touching the ground,though weight alarm was sounding .
Wouldn't like to travel far or try to lift any real height off the ground-but could move it A-B.

Did a controlled lift between moving them with the large loadall

 

[Sparkplug]

So what are the dimensions of the Lego Block?

 

[Salt'n'Pepper]

80cm 80cm by 160cm
Which is just over 1 cubic metre of concrete and approx 2.25 tonnes( or so I have been told)

 

[Sparkplug]

Not knowing the 30.8T model, I assumed it was a 3 ton lift rigid machine, but now I realise it is Articulated Model so that is why you say it's rated capacity is only 2 tons @ 50 cm load centre so that makes sense when you say it struggles to lift it, even though you are only at 40 cm load centre.

 

[Salt'n'Pepper]

It's actually a 4wheel steer machine rather than articulated,and the load was slung from chains at the base of the forks,I doubt it would have lifted it had it been on the actual forks with a 40 cm load centre

 

[Sparkplug]

So why is it called a 30.8 if it only lifts 2 tons in the book?

 

[Salt'n'Pepper]

No idea!!-above my pay grade
-it is a replacement for the 750t(great machine)-again no idea why it was called that!!

 

[TripleSix]

No idea!!-above my pay grade
-it is a replacement for the 750t(great machine)-again no idea why it was called that!!

I know the "50" stood for 50hp