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Boogaard recovery with Terberg

Tuesday, March 10th 2009

From cycle shop to crane rental. Car and recovery Company v/d Boogaard Ltd. is used to catching opportunities since 1923. Recently with a brand new five-axle Terberg FM2850T. It is the vehicle with the largest hydraulic crane on a truck for many miles around. The FM2850T can also be used as a tractor chassis.

Van den Boogaard has recently obtained a five-axle Terberg FM2850T with a 150 ton/meter crane. "We use it for everything that has to be moved high or far. With this Terberg we can take along a 20ft container, or transport the load on a trailer. We wanted to have a versatile vehicle. Terberg has given us excellent support during the process of purchasing. We are proud of the result, which exactly meets our expectations. The truck can be converted into a tractor chassis within ten minutes. At the destination, we are able to put the container or the cargo down almost exactly anywhere the customer wants it,” summarizes Henk van den Boogaard Jr. (34) the possibilities of the Terberg FM2850T. The car and recovery company does not only work for steel companies and other heavy industry in the periphery. The administration of justice, the police and other public services also regularly invoke the skills of Van den Boogaard. "For instance with the disposal of a marihuana plantation, even if it is found in an apartment on the fifth floor. We can use our heavy equipment to hold a 20ft container to the balcony. This way we can remove the confiscated goods without inconvenience for the neighbors. Or, when the criminal investigation department needs a temporary consultation and working place on a crime scene, we bring a PD Unit that can serve as an office, reception area and security unit. To secure DNA material and other traces, investigators need the place to be secured from the outside world. With this new combination of car and crane, our potential is further extended. The crane is capable of putting down the 4500 kilos heavy PD Unit at a distance of 20 meters from the Terberg FM2850T. For the heavy industries we place an 18 ton 20ft container 6 meters beside the truck. Thanks to the jib, an added hydraulic crane part, the Fassi can reach a horizontal distance of 36.7 meters and then still lift 350 kilograms. Mind you, the propped Terberg will then be ten meters wide.

Versatile
"We have many vehicles because we offer a variety of services. We focus on car and salvage operations, logistic services and facility care. That’s why all our vehicles have something special. This applies to the trucks with cranes, but also to the hoist and recovery vehicles. This activity we developed in the eighties. We do crane rental since the seventies. At that time we used old American army cranes. These could also recover a wrecked vehicle and so a new activity started, at first in the Velser tunnel, from the moment that the fire brigade stopped doing that, and since 1996 also in the Wijker tunnel. We don’t repair bicycles nor overhaul engines anymore. In facility services we have other special skills like a locksmith, in order to be able to penetrate a marihuana plantation. In that case we are also prepared for booby traps! Because of the privacy-sensitive nature that always characterizes our work, all our twenty-four permanent and twelve stand-by employees are screened by the police and sworn to secrecy. The company is both VCA and ISO 9001 certified. In the special services I include our support on confiscations, for example by the tax authorities. Our speed of response is also crucial then. In the transport of evidence material for further investigation it is essential that no traces will get lost. We know how to do it."

Impressive
Director Henk van den Boogaard is impressed by the guiding of Terberg in the period before the purchase. "We have in our company, with 26 vehicles, a wide experience in purchasing, so I know what I am talking about. I appreciate the help especially because I do not reckon our company among the big customers of Terberg. We are rather loyal to certain brands. All our cranes on trucks are from Fassi and Volvo is our favorite brand for the road trucks. Our previous ‘musclecar’, a 90 ton-meter crane was attached on the Swedish brand. We rather liked that one. For the first time we could place an empty 20 ft container 23 meters from the truck. But our customers wanted more. This time our wishes were so extreme that only Terberg could fulfill them in a prudential manner. The Terberg FM2850T with four driven axles has a GVW of 50 tons, among other things because the two front axles have a capacity of 10 tons. The chassis of the Terberg FM2850T is reinforced considerably, in order to be able to attach the crane with a weight of 15 tons and a required installation space of 295 cm. Yet the body is only 120 centimeters high. A low loading platform is important for a low center of gravity, a low fifth wheel height and sufficient load height. For the transport of a 20ft container the load deck can be extended with a separate unit. To illustrate the diverse possibilities of this special Terberg, it can also be coupled to a trailer. The light and air pipes are already integrated into the unit."

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