Spillard News

Spillard Safety Systems of Gailey in Staffordshire has installed dual colour camera systems and convex mirrors onto a Fuchs 380 and Liebherr 984 crane at the Port of King’s Lynn, owned and operated by Associated British Ports.

Paul Freeman, ABP’s maintenance manager at King’s Lynn comments, “We operate a policy of continuous safety and risk assessment and as part of this policy we decided to equip our wheeled Fuchs crane with a narrow angle boom mounted camera and a wide angle rear facing camera to see how effective they would be. This trial convinced us that the additional safety provided for the operator was both extremely helpful and cost-effective and so a second system was ordered from Spillards for our track mounted Liebherr machine.”

The two cameras are linked to a single Optronics colour monitor located conveniently in the cab. A simple change over switch allows the operator to have either a clear view of the working point or a wide view to the rear of the machine when re-positioning along the dockside.

According to Mr. Freeman, “The boom mounted camera has proved to be a real bonus and helps the operator unload ships with greatly increased confidence, especially when loose materials such as fertilisers are concerned and a skid steer loader is put aboard to trim the final part of the cargo.”