A reader has sent us a video clip of part of the opening ceremony at this year’s Nanjing Youth Olympics, which involved a large mobile crane. The video has to be seen to be believed.
Swiss rental company Clausen Kran has driven its new 60 tonne Liebherr LTR 1060 telescopic crawler crane to the top of an Alpine mountain to work on the one of the highest railway tunnels in the Alps.
We came across this short promotional video for a children’s book on cranes. It is so charming we felt it ought to go into the video library.
Around 100 people were evacuated from their homes yesterday in the Evere suburb of Brussels, Belgium, after the foundation of a newly erected tower crane was seriously compromised.
Power to the small town of Pfalzdorf, Germany was cut when a loader crane struck an overhead power line.
Here is another example of a crane overturning while helping remove a tree, this time in Largo, Florida, on Sunday.
An overturned mobile crane closed down a construction site this morning in Christchurch, New Zealand.
At the end of school term, some of the students from Brechin High School got the opportunity to go onto the building site of the new community campus to see the tower crane being built.
Russian construction company BaltMostStroy used its Sennebogen 7700 crawler crane to help build an 800 metre bridge in Russia.
Spotted earlier this week in Kickburton, near Huddersfield, two builders with a scaffold tower arrangement that completely ignores any safety measures.