KARL MÖHLE GMBH BUYS MASTENBROEK’S FIRST 2025 CT12
A German company celebrating its 80th year in business has become the first to own the latest version of Mastenbroek's CT12 crawler truck with human form recognition.
Based in Ammerland, Lower Saxony, Karl Möhle GmbH undertakes drainage and pipeline installation projects across Europe and added the 2025 CT12 to its fleet after winning several large contracts.
The 2025 CT12 is Möhle's eighth Mastenbroek crawler truck and continues a relationship with the UK manufacturer, which began in 1993
Introduced this year as an optional extra to the CT12, the human form recognition system warns both the driver and approaching person of the potential danger and brings the CT12 to a halt if necessary.
"The CT12 AI has been developed for two main reasons," says Mastenbroek's commercial director, Christopher Pett. "First, it takes advantage of the latest safety technology, and secondly, it meets the stringent health and safety regulations that the civil engineering and utility installation companies need for compliance, and this is an area in which our customers are increasingly working. It will also be a very useful safety feature for our customers undertaking agricultural drainage."
Established in 1945, Karl Möhle GmbH started out selling and repairing agricultural machinery. However, this changed in 1953 when it developed its first drainage machine. Today, the company's 45 employees continue to focus on agricultural drainage schemes as well as cable and pipeline infrastructure projects.
"This year, our company is celebrating 80 years of being in business. We have always been innovative and focused on using the best equipment and machinery possible to deliver the best possible service. This is what led us to Mastenbroek in the early 1990s when we bought one of their dewatering machines. We have since added eight CT12s to our fleet,” says Thomas Möhle. "The CT12 is the best machine of its type for efficiency, weight and flexibility. We have been using the CT12 for 35 years in which time no one else has managed to create a machine to rival it. We have used the CT12 extensively, and all of our operators, engineers, clients and environmental controllers think it is fantastic!"
Möhle's new CT12 was delivered in February and was immediately sent to work on Open Grid Europe's new natural gas supply pipeline from Etzel via Wardenburg to Drohne.
As well as human form recognition, the 2025 CT12 features the full-width tipping hopper, which fully visible when the operator cabin is raised to its highest position. The variable speed conveyor on the hopper provides a free-flow discharge for aggregates of varying viscosity. As well as allowing the operator to place materials into trenches accurately, the tipping hopper means the CT12 can be used as a dump truck.
At the front of the CT12, Mastenbroek's variable height and speed, 180-degree swing conveyor makes it easy for the operator to place backfill material directly into a trench or the hopper mounted on the trencher.
The 2025 CT12 continues to feature the hydraulic oil cooler mounted independently to the engine radiator, with side-mounted wide-opening doors facilitating access to the CT12's 248hp Volvo Penta D8 eight-litre six-cylinder Stage 5 emission engine.
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