Old Cranes

“The tilt-up process was the easy part of the job because we had a 500 tonne capacity Gottwald MK500 as the main crane, rigged with 63 m of main boom and capable of lifting 103 tonnes at the 22 m radius where the stack is scheduled for erection.

Ritchie Brothers auctioneers is selling around 75 mobile cranes next week in a large unrestricted auction at is Ocaña, location in Spain.

The Ruthmann Steiger TTS1000 sold by German rental company Gerken to Abilene High Lift of Texas, has now been shipped after a refit/refurbishment at the Ruthmann service centre in Gescher-Hochmoor, Germany

It seems that the crane an older 17 ton crawler crane slipped off the barge as it listed overnight while taking on water. The crane smashed into a dock and caused minor oil and diesel spills.

RESIDENTS IN an urbanisation in San Pedro del Pinatar are literally dicing with death every time they go for a swim in their pool after an aging and creaking crane from a neighbouring building site has become stuck directly above their communal area.

Four Potain special application tower cranes are working on a major hydropower dam project in Turkey.

They are often used as an at-a-glance gauge of how well a place is doing, the number of cranes on the skyline. It is of little surprise that active building sites with tower cranes are in short supply these days.

Over the next nine months, Svanen will install the remaining 89 foundations ready for the mounting of two substations and 88 wind turbines.

Industrial equipment auctioneer Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers has set a company record by selling 918 cranes between January and June 2010.

The crane was erected in 1942, replacing an older crane that had been hit by bombers during an air raid on the town of Barrow and its docks by the Luftwaffe 1941..Two watchmen, posted on top of the crane died when it was hit.