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. […]
The Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association announces session topics for its Crane & Rigging Workshop, to be held Sept. 21-23, 2011 at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center, Philadelphia, Pa. For more information, go to the meetings section at www.scranet.org. Some of the safety related-sessions scheduled include : • Bringing Your Safety Program into the […]
Approximately 80 safety professionals attended the General Assembly meeting of the New board members being sworn in, a traditional activity of the ACRP General Assembly is a Rigging Jeopardy contest, sponsored by The Crosby Group. Attendees divide into teams and work together each day answering rigging questions in a multiple choice format. This year’s highest […]
Drew Merschat has developed the RigIT mobile app to give instant access to all necessary rigging capacity chart information. Every chart in the app includes the three basic hitches and their load capacities. This includes vertical, choke, and basket hitches. Also included in the charts are screw pin shackles with working load limits and pin diameters. […]
Working in construction sites has always been considered as hazardous. In the period between 1997 and 1999, there were 158 accidents which can be considered as crane-related. 73 percent of these crane related accidents involved mobile cranes. Of this number, 10 accidents were caused by electrical contact. This gives people the importance of electrical grounding of […]
Construction of the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market in the Lithia Square Shopping center is currently underway. Sims Crane crew members were on-hand to help raise two compressor racks above the building in Valrico. Stanley “Bubba” Tillis, CCO certified crane operator and long time employee, headed the project from the cab of the Grove GMK 5240. He had […]
