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2008-06-09 

CC1800 DEMAG setting duct work for FGD PROJECT AT PA. POWERHOUSE

 
   


 
 
   

2007-12-04 - Biggest Lift Ever at Highland Port

Port Services (Invergordon) Limited have completed the Load out of 450 tonne bouy for FPSO mooring systems utilising a Gottwald Akl680-3 and five assisting telescopic mobile from their own fleet.

This complete a project that the logistics company has been working on with Saipem / Sonsub all year.

The AK680-3 was supplied by Sarens Limited and Port Services heavy cranes division supplied a 500, 250. two 120 and 80 tonnes cranes to assist with the lift.


2007-08-18 - Sedco - Gotwald

500 Tonne crane on barge removing thrusters on the Sedco 706 and also on hire to Port Services an Gotwald AK912 - 1200 tonne crane removing the derrick.

All work coompleted by Port Services Special Projects Division.

   

2007-07-26 - Invergordon, Scotland

HUGE BUOY LIFT AT INVERGORDON, SCOTLAND

A Massive steel buoy was lifted from ship to shore at Invergordon, Scotland yesterday in the biggest single lift yet undertaken at the Scottish Port.

The Special Projects Division of Port Services (Invergordon) Limited - one of the leading logistic support service companies operating in the Cromarty Firth - handled the logistics of the manoeuvre as the 450-tonne offshore loading buoy was discharged on to the quayside using the vessel's own gear.

The company, will make modifications to the buoy, which is destined for the UK sector north sea later this year. Port Services- Special Projects Division will then load the buoy back to the water using a AK912 – 1200 tonne crane. It will then be towed to the north sea.


2007-05-02 - 50 Ton

60 tonne suction pile being loaded out with 500 tonne crane

Paul Clark Port Services (Invergordon) Limited Scotland Heavy Crane Division


2007-05-02 - Essar Scotland

500 tonne crane working at Essar Wildcat at Invergordon Scotland

135 tonne ballast and 77 metres luffing fly jib


2007-05-02 - Glombar Arctic, Scotland

500 tonne crane with 135 tonne ballast and 77 metres of luffing fly jib working at the Glomar Arctic 2, Invergordon, Scotland


2007-05-02 - Essar Wildcat, Scotland

500 tonne crane with 77 meteres of luffing fly jin (blue) and 350 tonne crane with 48 metres of luffing fly jib (yellow) working on drilling rig Essar Wildcat, Invergordon Scotland

Paul Clark
Port Services (Invergordon)
Limited Heavy Crane Division


2007-03-20-Lampson

800 ton lift with Lampson LTL 2600

   

2007-03-20-Liebherr-Demag-Rolls

Below are some SUCCESSFUL lifts by Port Services Heavy Cranes in Scotland.

  • 500t Liebherr - Lifting Bridge in Paisley for historic society

  • 350t Demag lifting Statue(Spike) in Docklands - London

  • 500t Lifting the Rolls Royce chimney down in Glasgow

   

A couple of lifts with the 4100 Manitowoc at a heavy oil facility in northern Alberta, Canada. The first picture is a tandem lift weighing approx. 380,000 lbs. The second picture is a steam exchanger approximately 290,000 lbs. We had to hoist this exchanger 22ft. and walk with load while the second crane swung to it’s left to clear the peak of the building for it’s final resting spot.

Mark Stroeder
Construction Manager
Specialized Rigging Services
Cell (780) 235-8435
Office (780) 467-1882


What a crane Inspector finds...

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Crane operator may get 30 years in prison for running a defective crane with out a load chart and a home made boom Look at boom.

Only in South Carolina would a contractor use a home-made jib on a school project while the children are in the classroom.

This crane was reported to the South Carolina division of OSHA and they did not respond, despite the fact that children were present in their classrooms and could have been harmed!

   

A critical pick made by Hydraulic crane specialists in Mobile, AL using a P&H 6250 & Manitowoc 2250


This is the 4600 Manitowoc Series 4 350 ton crane loaded on double wide loadboys with 190 ft of main boom, Back in the seventies I was running this crane when it was new and it is still running today on the North Slope, Alaska as good maintenance threw out all the years and it will run for many more years.


This is a picture of a fully rigged face shovel being moved in the UK, by road, sometime in mid 1960's by five trucks.

The first of which is Ex-US Army Diamond T wrecker leftover from WW2


LOAD TESTING
Here is a photo of a load test and re-certification job i carried out in newcastle, england on the semi2, diving support msv. This is a 250tonne machine down-rated due to pedestal weld indications. It is seen here going through it's pace's  with 130 TONNE load.   Notice the single part line

Mammoets second PTC with Luffing Jib(2000 tons) This is on the test bed.

Here is a PowerPoint Slide Show of the crane getting loaded on the C5 Aircraft.
This is cool if you have Power Point or the Power point Viewer.


Here are some stills of the Load!

   

Notice the men shackling the slings to the lifting lugs some 100feet in height.


A tandem lift between a one thousand ton crane and a 400 ton crane. A perfect lift with no snags a tribute to the men who worked with me on this project.

If we had more money we would of got a bigger rig!

This is a picture of our Demag 12600 making the world record lift for a single body crawler crane. The assist cranes are a Liebherr LR1550 and a Demag CC2800. The load weight was a whopping 1498 short tons. An LLR-1450 is seen in the background.

This is our Demag CC4800 making a pick of 527 tons at an 85' radius. The load is a coke loader at a chemical plant in south Texas. This job was 3 months in the planning and went perfectly according to plan. The clearance over the structure was supposed to be 1'3" and was in the end 1' 5". It was a good day.

By: Phillips Crane & Rigging


1260W is a dragline

By: Mark
Engineering
Jake's Crane


ltcrwl ls218h is a crawler being used like a dragline.

By: Mark
Engineering
Jake's Crane


This picture is a Link-Belt HTC 8670 made in 1/25th scale.  
It is fully operational, just like the actual crane.  The boom extends to almost 5' high, and the outriggers function at all three positions (cab width, intermediate, and full extension).  I have approximately 150 hours in this project.

photo by:
Michael M. Konopik

Talking about a room with a view!  That is just what this is. 

Thanks Mark from Nebraska for sending in this photo. He is the operator that is setting this penthouse in place! Good Job!


The cranes involved in the lift were a Liebherr LTM 1400 with 276,000 lbs.  counterweight and guyed boom. A Krupp KMK 8350 with 132,000 counterweight. The lift is a 200,000 lbs. steel "tub girder" and was set with these cranes  in tandem due to site restrictions. The bulk of these sections were erected  alone with the LTM 1400, with only this one requiring a second crane due to a
lack of access.

This picture is of us setting a column which weighed 122,000 pounds at the new Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. We utilized many cranes on this job. A list of the cranes include a Demag ac 1300, and 435, Manitowoc m-250 and 888, Link-Belt 278, American 8460, 100 ton Link-belt hydro, PPM ATT 1300, Liebherr 190ton hydro and numerous rough terrain cranes from 90 to 30 tons. By: Ron Dunbar

Load Testing
You are load testing a crane but don't want to haul test weights or want to use another crane?

Use Water Weights, it's safe and easy. If something should go wrong just release the water. Theirs no need to use another crane.


M-1200
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maniasia
Here is a picture of us getting the slings ready for a lift of 680 metric tons off of the jib on the Manitowoc M-1200 Ringer. Machine was rigged with 253' main boom and 100' of jib.

In case your wondering there is just a shade over 2 million pounds of counterweights.


AC 1600

Ryan Box
The boats were built in New Orleans, LA. They weighed 240,000 pounds a piece and the crane was at a 52 feet radius. We had 132 feet of telescopic boom out.

It took about three hours to put the main boom and superlift in the crane and get on the wooden mats and steel pads. The lifts were done in about three hours and we disassembled the crane in two hours. The crane was back in the shop within twelve hours after the crane left out of the shop. Ryan


Demag TC 3200

Ryan Box
The following is a picture of my latest lift with our Demag TC 3200 Lattice Boom Truck Crane. It had 354 feet of boom in it and 248 tons of superlift counterweights and 164 tons of main counterweights. If you need any more information e-mail me back. I have some more pictures of it with 295 feet of boom and 275 tons of superlift counterweights and 164 tons of main counterweights. We had to run both configurations on this job.

It took us 24 hours to assemble the first configurations of 295 feet of boom and 275 tons of superlift counterweights and 08 hours to change configurations to 354 feet of boom. It took 16 hours to disassemble.

P.S. If you can make it out, the overhead bridge crane is what we tailed the lifts up with. It is good for about 250 tons. We tailed the lifts up over water and had to dip one into the water to have the clearance for the bridge crane.



Harry B.
Sealand Anchorage Alaska Winter scene. Ice cube weighing 30 ton's tide runs 13 knots and 30 foot plus tides, all in a days work of a crane operator off loading Sealand container ships.


Lou
With three terminals featuring 18 container cranes, the Port of Charleston is the largest container port in the U.S. South Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions and is one of the top two container ports on the entire East Coast of North America.

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