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Buckner Companies is using its new Liebherr LR 1600/2 crawler crane to install vessels and components on the A-3 Test Stand at NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, USA.
It is now rigged in SDBW/W configuration. “That is the heaviest lift configuration for the crane, and includes the main boom, the luffing jib with derrick attachment and ballast wagon,” says Jerry Masten, project manager for Buckner Heavylift Cranes, a division of Buckner Companies.

“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.

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 .

Grove Crane announces the arrival of its latest rough-terrain crane, the 75-ton capacity RT875E. Look for this newest generation of RT cranes, following the 875C series, at ConExpo in March in Las Vegas, Nev.

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

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More than 180 Potain tower cranes, Grove mobile cranes and Manitowoc crawler cranes are helping build the world’s largest women-only university in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, according to a news release.

Pottier said Lead Structural let three tower cranes spin freely during hurricane Juan in 2003 and none sustained any damage as a result of the storm, which left a deadly swath of destruction in its wake. “Left unpinned, they’re free to spin

A man was injured in Gedling, Nottingham yesterday after a crane lifting a hot tub off the back of a delivery truck and into position tipped. The 20 year old man – who was helping deliver the hot tub – was trapped against the wall of a bungalow while the crane boom landed on the bungalow roof and the hot tub landed in the garden.