Electro-Services Invests in Grund-O-Winch Twin Capstan Winches

(29/11/2007)

Electro-Services Ltd recently made a significant investment in the further expansion of its rental equipment fleet and service capabilities with the addition of fifteen Grund-O-Winch Twin Capstan Winches. The company also has a further six similar winches under option. In total this is an overall investment of about £500,000.

The new Grund-O-Winches, provided by Bedford-based TT-UK Ltd, are designed to work in conjunction with pipe bursting, pipe pulling, cable pulling (both underground and overhead), sliplining and modified sliplining and other similar utility renovation and construction operations.

The winches purchased by Electro Services Ltd are mainly the 4 tonne and 5 tonne models. The winches all have a minimum towing cable capacity of 500 m, and all are fitted with Drop Leg Booms and Digital Rope Meters. They can also be used in automatic mode to ensure that contractors can maintain pulling force control throughout a pull and that stresses on pipes and cables are minimised and kept within load tolerances during pulling operations.

As well as its new winch fleet, the company also offers Electro-Fusion control boxes of both 40 V and 80 V or combined 40/80V design, manufactured and supported in-house by Electro-Services Ltd, as well as being a fully licensed McElroy distributor, with 13 McElroy TracStar T500 Butt-Fusion machines and three TracStar T900 rigs, which are the result of a recent major expansion of its Butt-Fusion machine fleet. The company now offers what is possibly the largest such Butt-Fusion welding fleet in the UK, if not in Europe. Butt-Fusion equipment can now operate on pipe diameters from just 63 mm up to 900 mm.

The company is also one of the longest established repair houses for Radiodetection systems and one of only 4 ‘Super Repair Centres’ for the company across the UK. Radiodetection equipment handled by Electro-Services Ltd includes Cat & Genny cable avoidance tools and the RD4000 buried service tracing systems, as well as GatorCam pipe inspection cameras.

Commenting on the purchase Chris James, Sales Director of Electro-Services Ltd said: “We see this as the first phase of our investment in this type of winching equipment. We examined all our options before choosing the Grund-O-Winch units and, for us, they are the best available on the market. Given our other business areas we feel that this magnitude of investment enables us to further enhance our position as one of the countries leading specialist equipment hire companies, as well as expanding our options and potential client base.”

For more information, contact Electro-Services Ltd, Unit 14 Pulloxhill Business Park,
Greenfield Road, Pulloxhill, Bedfordshire, MK45 5EU. Web:
www.electroservicesltd.com, email: [email protected], or tel: 0870 850 0722.

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