With all the talk about banning leisure activities with cranes, they actually seem to be on the increase. The most recent one we have heard of is a troupe from Antwerp the Theater Tol, a sort of Cirque de Soleil type act.

A Rough Terrain crane overturned in Travis on Staten Island New York yesterday, no one was injured and the operator was able to exit the cab and walk from the scene.

Norwegian construction company, Norska Veidekke, is using a Hiab crane fitted with a work platform to help secure the roof of a Swedish road tunnel currently under construction.

Modulift has designed and manufactured the giant lifting rig used for the fast and efficient lifting and assembly of the Repower’s 5MWgiant wind turbines at Harland and Wolff in N. Ireland. Responsible for the unloading and assembly of the clean power generators for Vattenfall’s Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm Project in the Irish Sea, Harland and Wolff also have to load them back onto the barges when assembled, for installation in the Irish Sea, creating a need for a rig that could multi-task.

A truck crashed through the third floor wall of the New York Sanitation department workshops in Queens yesterday. The truck was left hanging precariously over the street some 10 to 12 metres in the air. It is still not known how the 16 tonne salt spreader came to be breaking out of the building.

You go through your ENTIRE one-hour, amazing sales presentation. You nailed it. The prospect seemed to be in agreement, even excited at times. He or she has all the logical and emotional reasons to buy, but at the end of your pitch says, “Sounds great. I need to think it over for a few days.”

Charleston, South Carolina, USA, August 09th, 2011 – Two Terex SK 415 hammerhead tower cranes are being operated by Detyens Shipyards, Inc., Charleston, South Carolina, where they have proved their excellent lifting capabilities, reliability and …

Liebherr has introduced a new efficient, low emission mobile harbour crane, the LHM 550, following its successful test and evaluation trials at the port of Odense in Denmark, where it is still working on routine port handling duties. The Liebherr LHM 550 has been designed for all types of general cargo, containers and bulk commodities with its 74 metre lifting height and 150 tonne capacity.

Seven men working on the Jirau hydroelectric power plant near Porto Velho in Brazil had a lucky escape on Monday after a crane dropped a 30 tonne load onto the scaffold they were standing on.

Terex Cranes announced Thursday it will close its Wilmington facility for fabrication and assembly by the end of the year, eliminating about 90 jobs in the process, according to a press release. The facility in Wilmington does some assembly and fabrication of tower cranes and small crawler cranes.