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Sany will show four new crawler cranes, the SCC500E, SCC3000WE, SCC3000 and the SCC16000 at the 2010 Bauma China exhibition. Most noticeable will be the SCC16000, a 1600 tonne capacity heavy lift crawler. Features of the 25000 tonne-metre giant include a modular design and super lift system.

The superstructure of a Liebherr LTR 11200 crawler crane has been mounted on an offshore jack-up barge for wind farm work. Danish based ship owner DBB Jack-Up Services A/S worked with Liebherr on the mounting of the 1,200 tonne capacity LTR 11200 superstructure to a pedestal on its self-propelled jack-up barge the Wind.

Blending practical experience with engineering theory, the authors have created a source of in-depth technical information on the major types of cranes and derricks in use today. Special features include state-of-the-art technical information on tower cranes and mobile cranes;

They demand attention, these marvels of machinery. Below, a thousand workers might weld steel, lay bricks and juggle a thousand other jobs, but the eye strays up to the cranes. Specifically, these are tower cranes, inverted L-shaped behemoths that are helping to build Parkview Regional Medical Center and add a fifth floor to Lutheran Hospital.

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

GGR will be launching a new 2.9 tonnes capacity battery electric Unic URW-295 spider crane at an open day at its southern UK facility in Long Crendon this Friday, September 10th .

Specialty Crane & Rigging out of California recently put a time lapse video together showing the “Raising of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church”.

We are hosting The Great Crane Photo Contest, enter now and win great prizes.

This is Gerry Wiebe creator and senior blogger at www.craneblogger.com sending you all a year end message and one last video to view before Christmas 2009.

The first picture of Wilbert Turmkrane’s giant WT 1905L e.tronic at work has been released to IC. Claimed to be Europe’s largest luffing jib climbing tower crane,