Blog Archives | Page 20 of 45

Work on the River Rhine for Sennebogen

A Sennebogen 655 heavy duty cycle crawler crane has been put to put to work on the River Rhine in Germany to help carry out lock maintenance repairs.

The crawler is carrying out the work on the Offenbach lock chambers for the Aschaffenburg Water and Shipping Authority (WSA). The Offenbach lock chambers are part of the Main federal waterway, which runs 185.2 km from the mouth of the River Rhine.

In total, 15 locks require regular maintenance. The Sennebogen 655 heavy duty cycle crawler crane is used by the WSA to help carry out regular inspections and repairs of the locks.

The crawler carries out the work, which includes lifting steel plates, from the multi-purpose ferry Muräne. The steel plates are used to hold back the water, so the inspection lock gates can be installed. The plates weigh up to 4 tonnes each and measure between 6 and 9 m long.

The 655 HD was specially designed for use on the ferry, a company spokesperson said. It is driven by a 261 kW diesel engine and has two hoisting winches and a reinforced double-row slewing ring. Plastic pads are fitted on the crawler tracks to protect the ship’s deck, a spokesperson added.

The crane has also been fitted with extras, including an inclination scale to indicate the angle of the ship and the boom. Biologically degradable hydraulic oil is used in case of leakage into the water, a spokesperson added.

Joachim Bauer, WSA crane operator, said, “The machine is reliable, robust and, first and foremost, it is relatively light. This is particularly important on the water – the lighter the machine, the more material we can take on board the multi-purpose ferry. With a variety of special equipment, the machine was adapted to our requirements in the factory.”

Garden bridge lift for Otto Fischer

Transport and crane service provider Otto Fischer chose a Tadano ATF 220G-5 all terrain crane to lift a bridge at the state garden show in Saxony, Germany.

Otto Fischer was contracted to carry out the logistics, construction and lifting of the bridge. The pedestrian bridge weighed 24 tonnes and the 220 tonner lifted the bridge 35 metres in the air, before placing it into position. During the lift the team had to contend with a small working area. The ATF 220G-5 was configured with its full 71 tonnes of counterweight and worked at a radius of 19 m.

Thomas Fischer, Otto Fischer managing director, said, “We are pleased to have the extremely reliable ATF 220G-5 in our fleet, it is very often in use. The ATF 220G-5 is an excellent machine in this class, due to its good load bearing capacity values.”

Liebherr LR 11350 to lift three coke drums

ALE’s Argentina branch used a Liebherr LR 11350 to lift three coke drums at the YPF refinery in Buenos Aires.

The coke drums weighed 435 tonnes each. ALE was also contracted to transport them, along with lifting derricks, coke drum structures and several other columns and heavy components. To transport the coke drums to the installation area, ALE used four 22 axle lines of conventional trailers.

For the lifts ALE used a 1,350 tonne capacity Liebherr LR 11350 lattice boom crawler crane. To reduce the ground bearing pressure the crawler was set up on load spreading mats usually used for ALE’s AL.SK crane.

Hernán Asensio, ALE project manager, said, “In this project we faced several challenges; working to install such large, heavy coke drums in a small working area filled with obstacles such as trees and buildings. Because of the client’s schedule, the heaviest pieces needed to be lifted during the windy season, which posed another challenge.

“By using the LR 11350 crane with P boom and four configurations, we were able to optimise the manoeuvres in the limited space we had available and minimise the removal of any obstacles. The client was pleased we could provide the engineering solution within the challenging environment.”

This transport and installation of the coke drums took three months to complete.

Changes at Tadano Faun

Satoru Oyashiki, vice president of Tadano Faun, is moving back to Tadano headquarters in Japan, after six years in the job. He will be replaced by Akihiko Kitamura who moved to Germany in October. Kitamura has been an officer of Tadano since 2011.

Oyashaki’s role as sales and customer support director, will be taken over by Rolf Sonntag. Sonntag joined Tadano Faun in a production role in 1992 and has been a Geschäftsführer of Tadano Faun since 2007.

Terex Explorer 5800 for Bengal

Louisiana based heavy haulage company Bengal Transportation Services has taken delivery of the first Terex Explorer 5800 in the USA.

The company, based in Geismar, purchased the 220 tonne crane from Terex distributor Dozier Crane and immediately put the crane to work at an ammonia plant.

Bryan Vigé of Bengal said: “We were looking for a crane with the latest technology, and the Explorer 5800 met that need with its cutting edge design and one engine concept. We are very pleased with the performance so far.”

Tiong Woon adds five Groves

Lifting and transport specialist Tiong Woon has taken delivery of five new 300 tonne capacity Manitowoc Grove all terrains to add to its crane rental fleet.

The Singapore-based company marked the addition of the GMK6300L models in a ceremony held during the Bauma China construction industry exhibition in Shanghai at the end of November. Tiong Woon Crane & Transport, 15th in the IC50 ranking of the world’s largest crane rental companies, now has 18 Groves in its fleet of more than 300 wheeled mobile and crawler cranes.

At the ceremony KH Ang, Tiong Woon chairman, commented, “Grove cranes are very popular units with our customers. When the Grove GMK6300L was launched in 2010 we could see that its onboard innovation gave it capabilities that other cranes didn’t have, particularly with its 80 metre boom. We watched the arrival of the first units in Asia with interest and quickly realised that this crane would be a great solution for many of our customers. It was only a matter of time until we ordered our own, and we saw such strong potential for the GMK6300L that we ordered five units.”

Grove has sold hundreds of units of its six-axle, 80 m boom GMK6300L since it was unveiled in IC magazine in April 2010. Tiong Woon’s other Groves include GMK3055 and GMK5095 all terrains and RT760E and RT890E rough terrains.