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Sims Crane & Equipment Co, Tampa Florida, 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.

According to www.baseballreference.com, in the 135 years of Major League Baseball, there have been a total of 17,538 MLB players. Out of that 17,538, only 25 of them have hit more than 500 home runs. Of those 25, nearly half are contemporary players who may have used steroids, but the others are among baseball immortals: Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Mel Ott, Mickey Mantle, Eddie Matthews, Ernie Banks, Jimmy Foxx, Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew, Willie McCovey, Reggie Jackson, and Mike Schmidt.

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Whatever words you use to describe U2’s 360° stage, just don’t call it small. On Sunday, a crew of hundreds used cranes, booms and lifts to erect four arched, metal spikes — the skeleton of a light show leviathan that takes four days to build. Time lapse video attached.

Mobile cranes are usually noticed in construction sites. Because the title signifies, it can be a machine that can travel from one spot to another even surface types that are irregular. A whole lot involving huge construction organizations are investing on mobile cranes due to its adaptability.

cranes are popping up all over Montreal to build new hotels, skyscrapers, and hospitals. Right now nine tower cranes are in operation at the Glen Yards campus of the MUHC superhospital, and more are on the way.

An 80 tonne crawler crane has been ‘stood down’ in Cumbria. UK after robins were found nesting inside it. Workers on the United Utilities waste water site in Keswick and had been using the crane and were preparing to strip it down and return it to the crane rental company.

In some cases, developing a creative lifting solution truly is a matter of life and death. In the fall of 2010, Baltimore’s University of Maryland Medical School Trauma Center project faced the challenges typical to tower crane use in an urban setting: a lack of space, traffic and wind.

The leader of a symphony orchestra knows how to play every instrument. He also knows how those instruments blend together to create a symphonic sound. The leader of a choir knows every note that everybody has to sing, and knows how the voices and notes blend together to make harmony. They’re actually called “conductors” – but you know what I mean.

With the help of a Terex CC2500-1 lattice boom crawler crane, Riga Baumann GmbH lowered a tunnel boring machine, complete with cutter head, into position in Düsseldorf, Germany.