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Special transport by helicopter

It goes high up! The goal? To use a helicopter to transport the component of a JCB 541 - 70 to the Bundeswehr mountain station at an altitude of 800 meters. We were there with the camera.

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Special transport of a JCB 541 - 70 component by helicopter
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Spot landing in snow flurries thanks to perfect cooperation

It goes high up! The goal? To use a helicopter to transport the component of a JCB 541 - 70 to the Bundeswehr mountain station at an altitude of 800 meters. We were there with the camera.

December 05, 2018, Schneizlreuth im Berchtesgadener Land, Wehrtechnische Dienststelle für Schutz- und Sondertechnik (WTD52) - 10 a.m.

Extreme wind, loud rotor noise. A special helicopter from Switzerland takes off. In tow: a component of a JCB 541 - 70 . Attached to long steel cables, the helicopter slowly climbs into the air with the telescopic loader. The destination: the mountain station of the German Armed Forces, Service Center for Protection and Special Technology, 800 meters above sea level, in the middle of the mountains.

Here, the Bundeswehr tests explosives and blasting situations of all kinds - pressure waves, fragmentation, blast radii and more. There is only a cableway leading to the base on the mountain, which is not accessible to civilians. So how to get a telescopic handler to this site? Exclusively by helicopter. A special challenge for our special vehicle team around Stefan Fröhlich and Florian Krammel.
The transport date was repeatedly postponed over several weeks, which made it very difficult to organize a helicopter. Weather conditions also had to be right for this dangerous transport. Even the fuel weight of the helicopter was a factor - in order to be able to transport the heavier part of the JCB upwards, the tank was lightened by every amount of fuel with the first flight in order to reduce the dead weight of the helicopter, as this was what made the flight to this height possible in the first place.

In the end, everything went smoothly. The skilled pilots from Switzerland made short work of it: Within a few minutes, the parts were set down with high precision in the smallest of spaces between rock walls and the warehouse and with limited visibility due to snowdrifts. The GRUMA service technician team was then able to start assembling the telescopic loader immediately. Project successful!

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