2011 Wildest Crane Project Photo Submissions

Below are the submissions for the 2011 Wildest Crane Project Photo.

1. 100 ton crane jacked up in North Vancouver BC, Canada

2. Tower and luffing tower cranes in the city of Dubai

3. Grove 300T setting a Potain HDT80 on a second floor PT deck in Issaquah, WA

4.  Dallas Cowboy’s Stadium. We had 300,000 lb. picks at 275′

5. Mobilization of a Wolff tower kran at the Edmonton Parliament revamp project with a LTM 1400 with Fixed Jib

6. Pacific Blasting & Demolition removing the roof at BC Place, Vancouver, cranes lowering the roof fabric from the upper bowl and controlling the cables after cutting from the stadium rim

7. Shot taken from the 48 floor of the eighth avenue place office tower in Calgary, AB

8. Peace River

9. Easy Moving

10. Wallenda Walk: Tadano GR300XL held the tightrope on one end of this walk at the amusement park

11. Port crane working at Mumbai port-“Looks like Holding the Sun and dipping in Sea”

12. Our LTM 1400 lifted an MD 80 airliner that was donated to the Baker Aviation School in Miami, FL. The lift was preformed with 51 ft of main boom at 75 degrees and 138 ft of luffing jib.  This photo was taken by Joe Pries

13. Structural Steel Factory in Dubai fitted out with 85 overhead cranes and 4 gantry cranes

14. View from 350’ on a GMK 6350 overlooking Bragg Crane & Rigging yard

15. Budapest, Hungary. Terex AC 40 City crane lift a big bell (6800 lbs) , into the window of a Matthias church’s tower. They carved the window onto the shape of the bell, only some inches of gap remained between the window and the bell

16. Liebherr 550 EC-H, 630 EC-H, H-112 EC, 110 EC-B, Wolff crane 6031 Clear The cranes on Neubeuern The European Central Bank in Frankfurt

17. Two Shuttlelift ISL series mobile gantry cranes operate on rails to complete the reconstructing LA 1 highway project so to not disturb the delicate ecological system of the marshes and bayous of Louisiana

18. Assembling our Grove GMK-7550 “The Hulk” in downtown Tampa, Fl closing 3 city blocks to assemble the crane for work on the Federal Courthouse

19. Two LR1300 crawlers, one with superlift that ‘walked the load into place while raising the structure, the blackleg is being held by a Liebherr LR1200 and the man basket is being used on the Liebherr LTM 1095 in Alberta

20. A Manitowoc 14000 working around the clock in central Florida disappears into a fog abyss

21. The Elbphilharmonie, a concert hall in Hamburg, Germany. It’ll be the highest inhabited building there; built in direct proximity to the water

22. Photo was take in a UXO (unexploded ordnance field) in Iraq. The crane is an AC-50. The crane was used to move items for the military

23. Zartman Construction raising the roof

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25. Harrison Crane hoisting 1955 Cadillac for an event on South Beach

26. Here is a 747 fly over at the River Rock Casino crane erection.The tip wind meter rocketed up about 30 seconds after the plane passed by

27. Liebherr LR1600/2 stands out at ConExpo 2011

28. The Uptown Phase 2 Retail Commercial Project in Victoria, BC

29. Ship Building  with a 30 Ton EBCO Mobile Dry Dock Crane in  Canada’s West Coast graving Dock

30. Looking out from STT293 Looking at The 8 STL 420

31. Bigge utilized several cranes and gantry systems to help place a portion of the San Francisco Bay Bridge

32. Here is a 3 crane lift in the arctic in march of 2010, At the Yukon zinc project I was the construction safety coordinator for surface construction. In this photo we are installing conveyor parts

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