cranes

BKT has launched a new All Terrain crane tyre, the Airomax AM 27 is currently available as a 445/95 R 25 and is designed for good performance on road and over unfinished ground.

Liebherr has launched an intelligent grab for its mobile harbour cranes – SmartGrip, which it says can boost productivity by over 25 percent.

A mobile crane overturned in West Fargo, North Dakota, yesterday, with the boom landing on a new building causing considerable damage. Thankfully no one was seriously hurt in the incident.

Spotted on a construction site in Potsdam, Germany yesterday a man riding the crane slings with ladder

Dawes Rigging & Crane Rental Inc. of Wisconsin reports that operator Ken Mulryan has been appointed Engineer of the Year by the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 139, District D.

The first Zoomlion Jost flat top tower crane has been launched: the T8030-25U. A project team based at the Chinese manufacturers research centre in Germany developed the crane.

A five axle All Terrain crane overturned in the city of Antofagasta, Northern Chile on Saturday when the ground gave way beneath one of the outriggers.

A crane / boom truck working on interstate 69 near Indianapolis, Indiana overturned across a dividing barrier yesterday striking a passing car.

The union representing outside city workers in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario is applauding a coroner jury’s recommendations into the 2009 death of a worker who was fatally crushed by a mobile crane.

A boom truck overturned in Milwaukee on Friday as it was unloading and placing steel beams and landed across four cars, one of which was occupied.