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 […]
Our friends Eagle West & Stampede Crane & Rigging in Canada were part of getting the stage set for the U2 360° Tour in Canada here is an awesome fast motion video of the stage going up, the concert and the tear down. Enjoy!
Kurt Kufferman, VP of Operations, Sims Crane Sims Crane & Equipment Co., Tampa, Fla., announces the promotion of Kurt Kuffermann to vice president/general manager of operations. He will oversee day-to-day operations of all departments located at our Tampa headquarters, including dispatch, shop, service, parts and yard activities. He will also serve as coordinator to branch operations across the state. […]
Edge protection what edge protection? A reader has sent us some Death Wish photos from Beirut which show the current levels of work at height and fall protection measures in the Lebanese capital. Detail shows the men at work The building shows very little attention to any edge protection, either on the regular floors or […]
