The new 34 ft 340AJ JLG articulated boom was nameed the ‘Best Product’ of the year at the recent Hire and Rental Industry Association (HIRA) Annual Convention held this year in Perth, Australia. Rental companies throughout Australia also voted JLG the Access Supplier of the year. Vertikal Comment: The world seems awash with awards thse […]
As the sun rises above Fort Lauderdale on a Saturday morning, a crew from Sims Crane and Equipment is on its way to the city’s Flagler Village neighborhood. They’ve been assigned the assembly of a Champion Personnel/Material hoist taken from their rental fleet. CCO Carlos Ramos is already waiting for them at the […]
Two 150-ton crawler cranes tower over a massive concrete structure just steps from the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino on NW 40th Street in Coconut Creek. Sims Crane operators are working around the clock for Solar Erectors, a contractor on the project. As the sun goes down, the two Sims cranes stand high in the night sky lifting […]
The emerging Omni area of Downtown Miami is getting a Publix supermarket. Construction is now underway on the 49,200 square foot market at NE 17th Street and Biscayne Boulevard. Stiles Corporation is heading up the building of the three-story, urban format supermarket, which features two floors of parking atop the supermarket. Sims Crane CCO […]
It’s Friday in downtown Miami. The sun is reflected off the rows of cars lining the busy streets along the cultural, financial and commercial center of South Florida. On NW 3rd Street, Sims Crane CCO Mike Dasher is bunkered in the cab of a 250-ton hydraulic lattice boom crawler crane. Just blocks from the Miami Federal Court […]
Sims Crane & Equipment Company recently helped bring wireless service to thousands of Verizon customers in the Town of Windermere, located in the Orlando- Kissimmee area. A 184 foot tower located in a grass covered field at 6711 Ficquette Road dwarfs the growing crowd of workers beginning to surround the structure on a Wednesday morning. […]
It’s early in the morning when CCO Stanley “Bubba” Tillis and Oiler Will Mercado drive up to an open field in Myakka City. They unload the trucks. The first truck holds three pieces needed to assemble the 240-ton Grove All-Terrain Hydraulic Crane. The base weighing 26,000lbs comes in on its own truck. Atlas Construction […]
Ronald, Joseph Sr. and Joseph IV Vergona Joseph Vergona III, former owner of four-generation family business The Vergona Crane Co., Englewood, N.J., passed away last week from pancreatic cancer. He was 71. Out of high school, Vergona began working for his grandfather, who founded the business in 1931. In 1981, he took ownership of the company from the […]
CCO Brian Ellis is at the helm of his 175 ton all-terrain crane on a Wednesday in Orlando. He and Oiler Danny Arnold are on their first job for the day. They’re tasked with lifting and placing portable modular classrooms into place at Moss Park Elementary School on North Shore Golf Course Boulevard. Modular Building […]
RE: Structural Connection Points for Attaching Chain Hoists (load drifting) In power plants, refineries, aboard ships, in paper mill and other industrial settings, equipment must be installed or removed to accommodate the facility’s operation. Often riggers must be creative when rigging loads in tight quarters where there are no existing overhead cranes. If the proposal […]
