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Customer Stories

Dig into real-life customer stories from HMF crane operators worldwide.

Explore how our loader cranes empower businesses and individuals to achieve success in diverse industries. Get inspired by the stories of innovation, efficiency, and reliability shared by our valued customers.

Customer Stories
From Cranes to Creative Challenges: Keld likes Constant Development

From Cranes to Creative Challenges: Keld likes Constant Development

When you meet Keld, the energetic and multi-talented owner of Bjarne Hansen & Søn, the door opens to a world of vehicles...
Customer Stories
From Crane Operator to Transport Planner

From Crane Operator to Transport Planner

Peter de Best spent 12 years on the road in a lorry as a crane operator, but wanted to change career when he became a fa...
Customer Stories
Green Crane for Green Jobs

Green Crane for Green Jobs

At Anlægsgartner Gottlieb, a Danish landscape gardener, Peter Gustavsen drives around in a brand-new Scania V8 with a gr...
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Meet Hallvard Bjørke - a crane operator at Jan Mo A/S in Norway

Meet Hallvard Bjørke - a crane operator at Jan Mo A/S in Norway

To Hallvard, every day is an adventure in the world of heavy lifting.

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Meet Lars Lips and his HMF 6020 Crane

Meet Lars Lips and his HMF 6020 Crane

We recently got in touch with Lars Lips, who was thrilled to tell us about his everyday work in the family-built busines...
Customer Stories
Celebrating 10 years of cooperation between HMF and Austrian Dunst Hydraulik

Celebrating 10 years of cooperation between HMF and Austrian Dunst Hydraulik

In the autumn of 2013, HMF started a cooperation with the Austrian service company Dunst Hydraulik & Ladetechnik, which ...
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A peek into Flemming's treasury

A peek into Flemming's treasury

The Danish sheet metal worker Flemming Laursen spends most of his spare time restoring old-school trucks – and HMF crane...
Customer Stories
HMF crane makes crane operator’s everyday life safer and waste management more efficient

HMF crane makes crane operator’s everyday life safer and waste management more efficient

Along with his favourite HMF crane, crane driver Dennis Bundgaard empties up to 150 waste containers a day, putting effi...
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Power to lift in Dakar with Max Hunt

Power to lift in Dakar with Max Hunt

Max Hunt is attending the “The Real Way to Dakar” race with his Scania 8x8 and HMF crane. Max Hunt’s truck is there as a...
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Jesper gets fully equipped large crane

Jesper gets fully equipped large crane

For Jesper from the company Bent Mortensen A/S a crane is not only an important piece of equipment in his business - it'...
Customer Stories
Biogas trucks with electric cranes for a greener future

Biogas trucks with electric cranes for a greener future

Bygma is investing in the industry's first fully electric truck and biogas trucks with electric-powered HMF cranes. This...
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Tim gets new, flexible stabilizer solution

Tim gets new, flexible stabilizer solution

Tim just got a brand new and improved stabilizer solution retrofitted on hisHMF 7020 loader crane. We asked for his asse...
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Max Hunt - Adventurer and family man

Max Hunt - Adventurer and family man

Hauke Bruhn's resume holds many titles: fishery officer, trucker, self-employed, carpenter. But today, under the alias M...
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Even the small haulier can contribute to a big crane

Even the small haulier can contribute to a big crane

Jørgen from JB auto has a particularly close co-operation with HMF, where his expertise within the crane world is welcom...
Customer Stories
Collaboration and digital solutions increase safety at construction sites

Collaboration and digital solutions increase safety at construction sites

GSV is a leading distributor of machine and equipment construction sites. They work to make construction sites a safe pl...
Customer Stories
Fabrice transforms truck cranes into railway cranes

Fabrice transforms truck cranes into railway cranes

HMF cranes aren't originally developed for railway carriages. But the company CML has made a business of rebuilding HMF ...
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Lars lifts the green building industry with new loader crane

Lars lifts the green building industry with new loader crane

Lars Christensen from Anker Christensen in Denmark has expanded his business with a new loader crane from HMF to be able...
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From farmer to owner of 12 loader cranes

From farmer to owner of 12 loader cranes

Freddy Frederiksen thought that he was going to be a farmer. But a trip to the US changed that. Today he owns Vognmand.d...
Customer Stories
HMF loader cranes help farmers in Northern Europe

HMF loader cranes help farmers in Northern Europe

Danish Agro has acquired three new HMF loader cranes to meet the demand from European farmers. Why cranes have become an...
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Carsten was heard and got a customized truck

Carsten was heard and got a customized truck

Buying a new truck may sometimes be an overwhelming decision. Carsten Nobel describes how HMF guided him towards the per...
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Thorkild gets a better overview and stability with RCL 5400 and EVS

Thorkild gets a better overview and stability with RCL 5400 and EVS

Thorkild Andreasen has tested two upgraded control systems for HMF's truck-mounted cranes: RCL 5400 and the latest versi...
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BMS gets extra reach with large crane fly-jib

BMS gets extra reach with large crane fly-jib

Per from BMS is one of the first to aquire an HMF 9520 loader crane with upgraded fly-jib. He has gained extra reach whe...
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Emil is the third generation of HMF crane operators

Emil is the third generation of HMF crane operators

Emil was introduced to HMF loader cranes as a kid by his grandfather. Later his father taught him how to operate them, a...
Customer Stories
Quick service saved tomorrow's revenue

Quick service saved tomorrow's revenue

When the remote control for self-employed Pelle's 13-year old 1820K suddenly failed, HMF made sure he was up and running...
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New crane and used truck? A simple way to save money

New crane and used truck? A simple way to save money

Considerable cost savings and the difficulty of getting new trucks in 2020 both speak in favour of mounting a new crane ...
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A 5-axled truck and 95 tm crane prepared for the future

A 5-axled truck and 95 tm crane prepared for the future

The haulage company Poul Erik Jeppesen & Søn from Denmark has just put its largest crane truck ever into operation: a fu...
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Get seated ... and make yourself comfortable

Get seated ... and make yourself comfortable

HMF crane operators out there working around the clock deserve to be comfortable while doing so! Therefore, this special...
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HMF fire-fighting in Poland

HMF fire-fighting in Poland

HMF distributor, HMF Polska, is not wasting time! In co-operation with a special vehicle company, HMF Polska has created...
Customer Stories
Why Studhalter Transporte counts on HMF

Why Studhalter Transporte counts on HMF

“We chose HMF for the first time back in 2009 and had many positive experiences with it. We have counted on HMF loader c...
Customer Stories
Unimog with an HMF #2

Unimog with an HMF #2

Last year, the piping company Enrotec from Neunkirchen received a Unimog tool carrier with an HMF 610K3. Now they've ord...
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Craned rescue vehicles for fire department

Craned rescue vehicles for fire department

Firefighting, towage and animal rescue are just some of the services new rescue vehicles with special armour and HMF 132...
Customer Stories
Grues Torralba: HMF cranes for more than 20 years

Grues Torralba: HMF cranes for more than 20 years

Grues Torralba has preferred HMF cranes for more than 20 years. The cranes' sharp, fast and well-defined functions as we...
Customer Stories
Rescue vehicles with power to lift

Rescue vehicles with power to lift

HMF cranes are used for many different purposes around the world. In San José, California, they are used for important r...
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A boyhood dream comes true

A boyhood dream comes true

At the age of 48 Perry Birkelund is finally acting out his boyhood dream: Starting his own company, Birkelund Kran & Tra...
Customer Stories
Unimog with an HMF – A combi for the most difficult conditions

Unimog with an HMF – A combi for the most difficult conditions

When a piping company needed a light-weight vehicle for off-road driving, the perfect solution was to mount an HMF 610K ...
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Off-road in German forests

Off-road in German forests

Setting up hunting high stands in bumpy forests can be quite challenging. Fortunately, HMF had the perfect off-road solu...
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Why two Icelandic companies chose HMF over a competing brand

Why two Icelandic companies chose HMF over a competing brand

The two Icelandic companies Hermundur Jóhannesson and Finnur ehf recently replaced their cranes with ones from HMF for s...
Customer Stories
Why König & Kaiser are turning heads with their truck

Why König & Kaiser are turning heads with their truck

Jens Kaiser from German König & Kaiser, turn people's heads when operating his dark blue Volvo truck - from outside the ...
Customer Stories
An exciting first build for Day Brothers

An exciting first build for Day Brothers

At HMF we're not afraid to take on challenging tasks. This time around it was Day Brothers who had an exciting assignmen...
Customer Stories
Power to lift F-16 fighter aircrafts

Power to lift F-16 fighter aircrafts

When the Dutch airforce needed a strong and reliable crane for lifting F-16 aircrafts HMF had the perfect crane for the ...

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