Brian Heffron
Brian Heffron of Palfinger North America Group stands behind the prototype PSC 10000 crane at the Palfinger booth at the 2017 NTEA Work Truck Show.
Palfinger brought a pair of prototype truck cranes to the Work Truck Show in Indianapolis this March.
One of the cranes, the PS6500, was expected to be in production with about two months of the show, said Brian Heffron, national sales manager for Omaha Standard Palfinger. The PS6500 has a 992-pound capacity for the entire reach of the crane, he said.
The other prototype, the 2,000-pound capacity PS10000, needs more work before it goes into production, he said.
That prototype has a “very high end boom section” that is a robotically bent, single-weld X hexagonal boom like Palfinger’s bigger cranes.
“The cylinder is a little oversized for it so there’s things we need to scale down,” Heffron said. “It’s overkill, way, way, way overkill.”
The company decided to bring the prototype to the Work Truck Show to let the market know that it planned to round out its line of cranes, which has had a gap below the 3,200-pound capacity models, and to get some feedback.
“We wanted to let the market know that Palfinger is going to finish out this line and just keep going,” Heffron said.
A popular feature on the PS10000 is its hydraulic winch, which Palfinger has on larger models.
“We’re eliminating electric winches, which are always a problem for an electric-over-hydraulic crane,” he said.