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Worker scales crane to remove Confederate flag upsetting residents in North Carolina
When a Confederate battle flag found its way atop a construction crane in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, last week, a construction worker scaled the machine to remedy the situation. According to the Asheville Citizen-Times, Asheville residents noticed the flag atop the crane which has become a familiar part of the city’s skyline as the $20 million Mariott-owned […]
August 25, 2015
Roadbuilding
Giant “Left Coast Lifter” crane’s first lift at new Tappan Zee bridge site more than a year in the making
One of the largest cranes in the world was finally put to use in the Hudson River on Friday as it made its first lift in the construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge, according to a report from The Journal News. The crane’s first job was to place a 650-ton cap for the bridge—no big […]
April 29, 2015
Construction Equipment
Manitowoc launches Grove GMK5250L all-terrain crane with greater maneuverability, big fuel savings (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
[imagebrowser id=231] Manitowoc has introduced the Grove GMK5250L, saying the new all-terrain machine boasts much-improved maneuverability along with the strongest reach and load chart of any five-axle crane. Built in Manitowoc’s Wilhelmshaven factory in Germany, the 250-ton-capacity GMK5250L features a long 230-foot boom giving it more vertical and horizontal reach than any other crane in its class, Manitowoc […]
April 14, 2015
Business
Booming crane market a welcome sign to strengthening U.S. construction industry
As one of the most expensive heavy equipment categories there is, when contractors and rental outfits are buying lots of cranes, you can safely conclude things are going pretty well in the construction industry. And that’s the gist of a recent analysis of the market by Citi’s Timothy Thein, according to a report from Business Insider. The report offers […]
April 13, 2015
Construction Equipment
5 minutes of crane FAILS: toppling over hills, trains, buildings
Appropriately titled “Crane FAIL Compilation 2013,” the video below puts together a 5-minute retrospective of the worst videotaped crane failures that came to light in the last year. Most of these failures come from our friends in Russia and, thankfully, maybe only one or two come from the U.S. There’s a bit of everything. Cranes […]
December 27, 2013
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