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Barin is supplying a new underbridge inspection platform to a Canadian customer, as well as a unit to a firm in Russia. The ABC190/L for Canada is the first machine Barin has supplied to the country and the customer is rental company Jenik Construction, based in St Mathieu de Veloil. The platform is mounted on a five axle Freightliner M2-112 truck chassis and can operate from a single lane of traffic. It offers a bridge barrier clearance of 4.4m, a pavement/sidewalk clearance of 4.4m and a horizontal underb
July 2, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
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The Barin platform bought by Uralmostrotroj on Russia will be used to inspect and maintain the Kama Bridge in Perm
1481 Barin is supplying a new underbridge inspection platform to a Canadian customer, as well as a unit to a firm in Russia. The ABC190/L for Canada is the first machine Barin has supplied to the country and the customer is rental company Jenik Construction, based in St Mathieu de Veloil. The platform is mounted on a five axle Freightliner M2-112 truck chassis and can operate from a single lane of traffic. It offers a bridge barrier clearance of 4.4m, a pavement/sidewalk clearance of 4.4m and a horizontal underbridge extension of 19m. The unit also offers a maximum underbridge vertical platform depth of 9m, a platform capacity of 600kg and a platform width of 1.3m. The platform can be fully deployed in 12 minutes, features manually-operated, vertical aluminium lift that can rise 2.5m with a 120kg load and offers a total GVW of 37tonnes.

The Russian unit is an ABC200/L model and was bought by Uralmostotroj based in Perm and will be used to maintain the Kama Bridge. The 500kg capacity platform is mounted on a 6x4 2394 Volvo FM400 chassis and offers a bridge barrier clearance of 2.1m, a sidewalk/pavement clearance of 2.7m, a horizontal underbridge outreach of 20m and a maximum vertical underbridge depth of 8.5m. Total GVW is 26tonnes and the machine can be fully deployed in 12 minutes, while it also features an aluminium lift with similar specifications to the Canadian machine that can be raised by 3m.

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