More work pics - a positive note

[HBCraig]

A few pics from a good customer of mine in SLC

Something thats a little positive in today's climate. Most of the main (bigger crane) crane in these pics are of a few 500 ton all terrains i sold them

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Down the street in from my site in Milpitas 6-7 low boys with a big ass crane parts put together pick n panels

 

[HBCraig]

Down the street in from my site in Milpitas 6-7 low boys with a big ass crane parts put together pick n panels

Boom. There you go.

I have one customer that is picking precast panels.

95' tall, weighing in at 500,000 lbs. Thats an actual weight btw

I have never seen panels that big. Crazy.

 

[BIG MIKE]

Cranes are alway fun to move. We move about 3 crawlers a week on average and several RT’s here in SoCal.

 

[HBCraig]

Cranes are alway fun to move. We move about 3 crawlers a week on average and several RT’s here in SoCal.


View attachment 943918
View attachment 943919
View attachment 943920

Those red cranes are okay, I guess.

 

[HBCraig]

From my counterpart on the east coast. This AT will be setting Xmas trees at the white house.

 

[RiverDave]

From my counterpart on the east coast. This AT will be setting Xmas trees at the white house. View attachment 943923 View attachment 943924

That is rad!

 

[WhatExit?]

Cranes are alway fun to move. We move about 3 crawlers a week on average and several RT’s here in SoCal.


View attachment 943918
View attachment 943919
View attachment 943920

How do you move the "crawler" - wide load?

 

[rivermobster]

Heavy duty thread!

 

[HNL2LHC]

Heavy duty thread!

Kind of hurts my crane-ium to think about the forces at work here.

 

[HBCraig]

How do you move the "crawler" - wide load?

@BIG MIKE would answer it better but depending on the size of the crawlers vary. For mine the car body and tracks will each go in a 9 axle separately. My tracks go from 50 tons up to about 90 tons each.

 

[Blackmagic94]

A few pics from a good customer of mine in SLC

Something thats a little positive in today's climate. Most of the main (bigger crane) crane in these pics are of a few 500 ton all terrains i sold them

View attachment 943838 View attachment 943839 View attachment 943840 View attachment 943841

Last pic. That’s a lot of counter weights lol

 

[BIG MIKE]

Those red cranes are okay, I guess.

I am an equal opportunity offender I will move any color crane.

 

[BIG MIKE]

How do you move the "crawler" - wide load?

As HBcraig said the crawlers get broken down into multiple loads. On the bigger units the house, car body and tracks are all on lowboys. Some require an assist crane to break out and load on the trailers others can break themself’s down on their own. Depending on the weight that would determine which type of trailer is needed to haul it. Then just order your permits for oversize and over weight.

 

[HBCraig]

A few pics from our facility in Rostock Germany. This is where weake our Harbour Cranes, cargo Cranes and Offshore Cranes. The crawler is a 1600 tin capacity crane as is the pedestal crane. They are loading the car body for a 3000 ton capacity crane.

 

[HBCraig]

2 more
115 meter towers or 380'

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

Alright, lets see the biggest and baddest crane you’ve sold @HBCraig

 

[Water Romper]

Damn...these pictures put the size of the "wind machines" in perspective, always looked at them heading down the 10 near Palm Springs but I've never been close up.
HUGE

 

[racektm]

A few pics from our facility in Rostock Germany. This is where weake our Harbour Cranes, cargo Cranes and Offshore Cranes. The crawler is a 1600 tin capacity crane as is the pedestal crane. They are loading the car body for a 3000 ton capacity crane.

View attachment 982637 View attachment 982638 View attachment 982639 View attachment 982640

Is that the turret your setting?? WOW!

 

[HBCraig]

Damn...these pictures put the size of the "wind machines" in perspective, always looked at them heading down the 10 near Palm Springs but I've never been close up.
HUGE

The very biggest in PS are 80 Meter towers. There are only 6. The rest are 50 meter smaller

 

[HBCraig]

Alright, lets see the biggest and baddest crane you’ve sold @HBCraig

The crawler is a 1500 ton. You can see from the hook how big this is. Holds 940 tons of counterweight

The all terrain is a 900 ton unit. Hold about 500,000 lbs of counterweight

These aren't my customers but I have sold these.

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

That is too cool. That has to be some big $$$$

 

[HBCraig]

Some recent pics from my customer changing a nacelle

This is a 900 ton capacity AT

 

[rivermobster]

Amazing stuff. Thanks for sharing!

 

[HBCraig]

Amazing stuff. Thanks for sharing!

Yeh. The "little" crane that is assuming is a 110 ton.

 

[bilz]

Uplifting thread

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

We have one coming in about a month to set 16 RTUs in Victorville and a smaller one to build our 80’x180’ canopy

 

[HBCraig]

We have one coming in about a month to set 16 RTUs in Victorville and a smaller one to build our 80’x180’ canopy

Who do you use?

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Who do you use?

I’ll look when I get back , sub hires them

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

These guys are flying my RTUs not sure who’s doing my steel

 

[HBCraig]

These guys are flying my RTUs not sure who’s doing my steel View attachment 1004948

Solid crane outfit brother.

 

[HBCraig]

Tornado damage. Crazy

 

[WhatExit?]

Love the cranes. Hate the turbines. A blight on the planet.

 

[arch stanton]

th

Tornado damage. Crazy View attachment 1015325

That wind turbine just looks so sad what does that cost to repair

 

[HBCraig]

th

That wind turbine just looks so sad what does that cost to repair

Hmmm. Good question. Each blade needs to come in on a special "blade lifter" trailer. See pic

Don't know exactly but the crane that is needed would probably be 40K to 50K per day and that doesn't included the load out both ways.

 

[SR]

Incredible thread, thank you.

 

[HBCraig]

A few more from this morning.

The Sphere project in Vegas by Madison Square Garden group

750 ton capacity crawler with luffer

 

[Instigator]

Are you supplying the cranes for the TSMC project in Phoenix?

 

[HBCraig]

Are you supplying the cranes for the TSMC project in Phoenix?

Possibly. It depends which one of the crane service companies get a good chunk of that.

 

[Joker]

I love these threads. It’s amazing what these cranes can do

 

[monkeyswrench]

A few more from this morning.

The Sphere project in Vegas by Madison Square Garden group

750 ton capacity crawler with luffer

View attachment 1045032 View attachment 1045033 View attachment 1045034 View attachment 1045035

Two questions, what's a "luffer"? Also, what the hell is the "Sphere" project? A venue type deal? Not a lot of glass. Looks like either a giant marshmallow or something from Star Wars.

 

[HBCraig]

Two questions, what's a "luffer"? Also, what the hell is the "Sphere" project? A venue type deal? Not a lot of glass. Looks like either a giant marshmallow or something from Star Wars.

Whoops sorry. I put a red dot on the luffer. It's the jib that moves up and down and gives you reach (it luffs). The main boom is the boom below it that will give you your height.

The Sphere will be a new venue site for concerts, events, etc. Supposed to be incredibly state of the art.

 

[monkeyswrench]

Whoops sorry. I put a red dot on the luffer. It's the jib that moves up and down and gives you reach (it luffs). The main boom is the boom below it that will give you your height.

The Sphere will be a new venue site for concerts, events, etc. Supposed to be incredibly state of the art. View attachment 1045257

Ok, I've heard them called "jibs" or "jib boom". That was also by old guys, and stuff a lot smaller. It's cool to see three big cranes going, means there's a bunch of people making some pretty good money.

 

[Nordie]

Two questions, what's a "luffer"? Also, what the hell is the "Sphere" project? A venue type deal? Not a lot of glass. Looks like either a giant marshmallow or something from Star Wars.

The Sphere is being built by Madison Square Garden. The company I work for is tying the rebar for the roof, I would imagine they are using the pictured cranes.

 

[HBCraig]

The Sphere is being built by Madison Square Garden. The company I work for is tying the rebar for the roof, I would imagine they are using the pictured cranes.

Big structural steel being flown. Really big.

 

[monkeyswrench]

The Sphere is being built by Madison Square Garden. The company I work for is tying the rebar for the roof, I would imagine they are using the pictured cranes.

Tying rebar...for the roof. Gotta love it! With rebar, does that mean they're doing steel decking and then lightweight concrete? That has to be one of the bigger spans to do that on if so. Which would also make sense about some giant structural metal.
Sorry, ex-roofer in me still likes the big projects!

 

[Nordie]

Tying rebar...for the roof. Gotta love it! With rebar, does that mean they're doing steel decking and then lightweight concrete? That has to be one of the bigger spans to do that on if so. Which would also make sense about some giant structural metal.
Sorry, ex-roofer in me still likes the big projects!

Yeah from my understanding is it's all on Robinson decking, and the rebar is also pretty damn heavy. I know they're using #14 rebar for something. I am a little out of the loop though, as I'm in my own little corner of the city on a bridge project, I haven't seen a lot of our guys on other projects in a very long time.

 

[HBCraig]

Tying rebar...for the roof. Gotta love it! With rebar, does that mean they're doing steel decking and then lightweight concrete? That has to be one of the bigger spans to do that on if so. Which would also make sense about some giant structural metal.
Sorry, ex-roofer in me still likes the big projects!

I know there is an entire steel fab yard on site.

 

[Flying_Lavey]

Ok, I've heard them called "jibs" or "jib boom". That was also by old guys, and stuff a lot smaller. It's cool to see three big cranes going, means there's a bunch of people making some pretty good money.

Same here. Maybe jobs are only on the hydros? @HBCraig

 

[skiracr]

wow. this thread is bad ass!