New Boom for compact Radius Excavator 328D LCR
At the beginning of March 2009 tunnel visited the Böblingen subsidiary of the Zeppelin Baumaschinen GmbH. There we met up with the 2 tunnelling specialists Martin Wurst, Mar-keting Director for Tunnelling, and Hanns Markus Renz, Pro-duct Manager for Tunnelling and Industrial Equipment. They proudly reported on the new development of a boom especially devised for tunnelling.
A tunnel excavator must take advantage of constricted space and in the process usually fulfil rigorous work for a good 24 h without a break. Generally this machine is subjected to particular strain, something that has to do with the confined conditions as well as the geology of the prevailing rock. In Böblingen a new boom has been developed for the basic unit of the compact radius excavator CAT 328D LCR, by means of which the tunnel cross-section can be worked even better. The 328D LCR with this new boom was presented to the tunnelling public for the first time in September 2008 at the IUT in...
