Rental company Hewden in the UK used a 55 tonne all terrain crane in preparations for the royal wedding on 29 April. Setting the stage for the royal wedding A full contract lift service with the was supplied from Hewden's Dartford depot to Tothill Street, London, opposite Westminster Abbey, to help lift a temporary television […]
Maximum Capacity Media's three-in-one conference and expo for construction and industrial crane users is coming to Houston, Texas, July 19-20, 2011. Three events under one roof Reach Expo provides a venue for suppliers and vendors to showcase products and services of interest to crane and rigging managers overseeing fleets of mobile cranes in construction and overhead […]
Nashville Tennessee - A crane operator suffered a stroke while operating the crane on Saturday. A firefighter climbed the crane and prepared the man for transport off the crane in a stretcher and harness. It sounds as if in this case there was a second taller tower crane on site which would have saved valuable […]
German crane rental firm Schmidbauer has helped to erect a 52m tall sculpture, named after 1930’s Hollywood icon Mae West, on a busy roundabout in Munich. A massive sight at a roundabout in Munich. A Liebherr LR 1600/2 was used to place the sculpture’s 57t upper section on top of the 15m tall base section […]
Circle the best answer for each system which matches the illustrations at the right.Information: All winches have a maximum capacity of 2 tons. All single sheave rigging blocks are rated at 3 ton WLL, and triple sheave rigging blocks are rated at 10 ton WLL. All load and wall anchor pulling lugs are rated at […]
Installing the mast was a four day project Huisman has installed the world’s largest offshore mast crane onboard the heavy lift ship Seven Borealis, says the company. The Netherlands-based lifting, drilling and subsea specialist said the four-day installation of the 5,000 tonne lifting capacity crane was its heaviest and most complex project to date. BigLift’s […]
This week, alumni of the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Sarasota program donned blue surgical booties before making their way to the Courtyard Tower construction site for a campus improvement update from Sarasota Memorial President and CEO Gwen MacKenzie and Skanska Vice President Richard Redmon. Source: http://www.smh.com/mfpblog/?p=375 This Drill was No Disaster To be […]
We have received a series of photographs this morning of an amazing – albeit far from textbook –rescue of six or seven men who are alive today thanks to them all wearing a decent harness properly and attaching their lanyards to a steel safety line. Sadly we do not known where or when it occurred, […]
Identify the rigging method below which provides the best load control of the two hitch systems illustrated. Answers below. P.S. This article was originally published in The Professional Rigger Newsletter - Load Control. Answers: Source:Mike Parnell - http://iti.com/simscraneITI-Field Services
