Liebherr introduced the new R974C at the bauma show 2007. This excavator has 85 - 100 metric tons and 543 hp.
This machine is working in a big quarry in germany, it weights 95 metric tons.
That looks like a very nice machine. How are Liebherr excavators? I actually saw one today going up I93 in Boston, hardly any here in New England.
From what I have personally seen, hardly any in the states. With one glaring exception. A certain demo company named Brandenburg has a bunch. Last I knew, most, if not all of their excavator fleet was Liebherr. I worked with an operator who is back to working at Brandenburg. They dont buy 1 and a time, orders consist of 20+ machines at a time.
Here is a r974c in a barge unloading application on the ohio river in silver grove, KY. It is owned by ingram barge company.
Not too much wear and tear on that last ones u/c!
The operator of the R974C on my pictures says they have problems with the electronic system, the breakout force is very good.
There is a dealer here in Dallas (also the Hyundai dealer), but they say they've only sold a few to some local scrap yards. I would think parts availability would potentially be a concern. I was looking up specs and thought this interesting: The R974C has more bucket digging force/breakout than a PC1250LC-8 but less stick force. It seems counterintuitive as the PC1250 has dual bucket cylinders and the R974C has dual stick cylinders.
Liebherr Excavators Lot of them involved in scrap metal handling down here in the South Pacific. Mostly R924's, R934's & R944's. Reliable machines with good dealer backup. Apparently very economical on diesel too
According to liebherr they have a 48 hour parts promise.
Try two weeks ex Germany, down here! Rn'R.
I was talking to a guy who had worked for Brandenburg. According to him, Liebherr will work with them to custom design booms and sticks for special applications where the other manufacturers would not.
Try two weeks ex Germany, down here! Know what you mean, thats what they say, but we wait alot also. Some things they are quick with, and others they are slow, but you have that with all manufactures. We have alot of 924s, 34s, 44s, and 54s in our area, mostly scrapers. The guys that run them love them and wouldn't trade them for the world, others hate them, whatever blows your skirt up.
now that's cool:notworthy
Hey Rocks n' Roses Isn't Liebherrs main parts store in South Australia in Adelaide ?
i've heard all you can get is polka music on the radio
That is correct, WabcoMan. Adelaide is Head Office for Australia and the South Pacific Region but my experience for the supply of parts is not good. We have a 541 wheel loader, which granted, is getting on a bit now, but every time we needed parts for it, which was quite often, it took two weeks from Germany, none were kept in australia. If we were desparate and wanted to pay an exhorbitant fee, they would have flown them out in a few days. I would hope their backup for excavators is better because there are quite in the mines and they certainly would not wait for two weeks for parts. Just my experience. Rn'R.
I also herd brendenburg makes alot of their own booms and other attachments?
Hoeman, With the exception of the shears, Big B fabs most of their attachments. This includes sticks and booms. This also includes rail cars and truck trailers. Most everything is built by them. Operators have told me the shop builds a new attachment, takes it to the field, and tells the operators "break it, not from abuse, but from use" Then they take the broken attachment back to the shop, re engineer it to take care of the weak points and send it back. They are also kind of mad scientists when it comes to putting attachments on machines. Ive seen shears on wheeled excavators. But where they get really strange is on loader attachments. Their demo buckets are second to none. You can pick up a piece of 1/2 inch conduit from a concrete slab with it. They also have hammers on loaders, and shears on loaders. Interesting company to say the least
974 A company here bought one 974 last year but they changed for an 964. 974 was to cumbersome to move,not due to weight but they had to take the whole front attachment of due to the height, if the boom had been abit more straight i had worked fine. Otherwise they was really satisfyed with the machine.
Liebherr is good from what I hear. Really solid German technology. But it is a big excavator.
My dad worked for a company back in the 70's and they had a large Liebherr. I do not remember the number, but he said it would out dig anything back then. They ran it for years then the company went through some changes and had to sell it.
I too talked to a guy at Brandenburg and that's what he told me Turbo21835.