The flying Roto!

A Roto 40.25 MCSS was disassembled and taken to a building site with a cableway, up to a height of 2300 meters, among the Alps in the Valcamonica Valley (Italy).

This was all done to carry out a challenging maintenance programme on the facing of the dam on lake Baitone, in the municipality of Sonico (Brescia), Italy. After evaluating several operational solutions, Gelmi di Malonno (Brescia), the company that contracted the work, chose to use our fully equipped handler for the handling of materials. The lack of a connecting road made it impossible to transport the machine by land. The cableway connecting the dam to the valley station was the only available means of transport to move the handler. A steel cable longer than 1700 meters was used to take the machine almost 700 meters up the mountain. The Roto 40.25 MCSS had to be disassembled in its main components, which were then taken up to the dam and finally reassembled on site in order to have a perfectly functioning machine.
This is how the chassis, the turret, the telescopic boom, the tyres and all other components were transported. The challenge continued when the Roto had to be reassembled. Due to the limited space available on the pad on top of the cableway, Merlo engineers had to perform a few acrobatic moves to carry out their task!