Lifting grabs are pieces of handling equipment used for gripping heavy concrete loads, such as segments and tetrapods. ACIMEX has already designed and manufactured lifting grabs with widely varying characteristics:
- Mechanical storage grabs used to handle several segments at a time and which operate without any input of energy, because the hinged mechanism uses the gravity of the charge as the clamping energy;
- Hydraulic grabs used for the storage or the turning over of heavy loads;
- Breakwater grabs which use the auxiliary circuits of a shovel to handle and install tetrapods, for the construction of coastal dykes.
With lifting grabs designed by ACIMEX, you can handle all gripping actions. Our products enable you to:
- Move a stack of segments horizontally;
- Grip all segments in the horizontal position, intrados to the top;
- Demould a segment on its extrados side;
- Turn a segment over through 180°;
- Stack segments for temporary storage;
- Grip and install tetrapods (also called acropodes).