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
April 6, 2011 – At ConExpo, Maximum Capacity Media hosted its first Crane Operator Rodeo, which was designed to bring greater attention to the importance of training and safe crane operation. "New OSHA regulations have put increased priority on the certification of crane operators, and as such, ConExpo was the perfect venue to provide large […]
When crane incidents occur, the cause can often be traced back to mistakes made in the planning of the lifting operation. Indeed, rather too frequently, the problem lies in the complete lack of any meaningful planning. Simple, routine lifting operations can be safely carried out without a written plan, provided the personnel involved are properly […]
