Setting down of concrete elements

The LUDWIG HOOK not only shines when working at height. Working in civil engineering also harbors dangers, especially if the subsoil is unstable. Releasing the sewer elements from a safe distance saves having to climb down into the pit. This…

Loading steel bundles onto trucks

Steel from the Berchtesgadener Land, our home. Annahütte is one of the largest employers in the region and a steel mill internationally renowned for its bar and threaded steel. The steel packages are set down in the truck with a massive crossbeam…

Transferring cellulose packages from ship to truck

At the French inland port of Port d'Halluin, cellulose packages for the local paper mill are delivered by ship and transferred to trucks. As is usual in logistics, everything is done under time pressure. Until now, an employee on the truck…

Setting walls and roof elements

The Ludwig spreader bar is a special spreader bar for load balancing. It is extremely useful when the attachment of the load to the anchor points leads to an oblique alignment of the load, i.e. the anchor points do not properly account for…

Putting profile packages on trucks

Packages of aluminum profiles are placed on trucks with a telescopic handler. The packages are tied so that they do not slip during the lifting process. After setting down, the Ludwig Hooks are opened by remote control, releasing the load.…

Placing electricity poles on the roadside

Our customer Vinci Energies uses our LUDWIG HOOK XL (5.3t payload) to place utility poles at the roadside. Usually, a lifting platform has to be provided to release the load after the lifting process. Thanks to the use of our LUDWIG HOOK, the…

Placing containers on truck

The company de Meeuw is a Dutch manufacturer of flexible construction elements in container design. Before the use of Ludwig Hooks, an employee had to climb onto the container roof to loosen the chains during every loading operation. This time-consuming…

Placement of reinforcing steel mesh to fix the river bank

Our customer Vinci Construction places reinforcing steel mesh on the embankment of the Garonne in Toulouse. For this operation, 2 LUDWIG HOOKS with 2T payload each are used. They can be released from a safe distance - one at a time or both…

Placing precast concrete elements in the danger zone

In 2019, a huge avalanche of debris covered the only road leading from Andorra to Spain. Fortunately, no one was injured. The local construction company faces the challenging task of building an avalanche barrier in the middle of the still…

Placing prefabricated concrete walls on special transport trailers

Manufacturers of precast concrete elements use our radio-controlled LUDWIG HOOK to store their elements in special racks or to place them directly on the truck bed. Using the LUDWIG HOOKS eliminates the need for ladders or lifting platforms…