Bulk terminals need reach without a purpose built material handler. This four section telescopic boom takes a fifty five tonne excavator carrier to thirty two metres horizontally with a 1.6 cubic metre clamshell, which is enough to strip the hold of a handysize bulker from the quay edge and to build a stockpile eight metres high in a single pass. The telescopic arrangement is what makes the working envelope practical. Retracted, the boom is short enough to travel between