Simple can be beautiful

Julian Champkin looks at the knuckleboom market and finds that though sophistication can be sought-after, and increasing size brings new roles, there is still a demand for the basic and simple.

Knucklebooms are workhorses. Their basic job is to load and unload the flatbed truck they are mounted on, which generally carry building materials, bricks, blocks and rooftiles. It is a simple job, and it can be carried out by efficiently and easily by simply-constructed cranes of light or medium capacity.