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2007-12-04 - Biggest Lift Ever at
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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2007-05-02 - Essar
Scotland
500 tonne crane
working at Essar Wildcat at Invergordon
Scotland
135 tonne ballast and
77 metres luffing fly jib |
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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 |
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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 |
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2007-03-20-Lampson
800 ton lift with
Lampson LTL 2600 |
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2007-03-20-Liebherr-Demag-Rolls
Below are some
SUCCESSFUL lifts by Port Services Heavy
Cranes in Scotland.
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500t Liebherr -
Lifting Bridge in Paisley for
historic society
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350t Demag
lifting Statue(Spike) in Docklands -
London
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500t Lifting the
Rolls Royce chimney down in Glasgow
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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. |
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Mark Stroeder
Construction Manager
Specialized Rigging Services
Cell (780) 235-8435
Office (780) 467-1882 |
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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. |
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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! |
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A critical pick made by
Hydraulic crane specialists in Mobile, AL using a P&H 6250 &
Manitowoc 2250 |
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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. |
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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 |
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LOAD TESTING
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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 |
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Mammoets second PTC with Luffing Jib(2000 tons) This is on the test
bed. |
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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! |
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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. |
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If we had more money we would of got
a bigger rig! |
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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. |
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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 |
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1260W is a dragline
By: Mark
Engineering
Jake's Crane |
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ltcrwl ls218h is a
crawler being used like a dragline.
By: Mark
Engineering
Jake's Crane |
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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 |
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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! |
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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. |
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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 |
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Load Testing
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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.
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M-1200
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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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