Lyrics from the song “Kids,” from the Broadway play Bye Bye Birdie, written by Lee Adams. And while you may think they were written about today’s generation of kids, the song was written in 1959 – more than 50 years ago. In 1959 there was no computers, cell phones, Internet, Super Mario, cable TV, or fax machines – and of course no iPods
Oilfield services company 5J Trucking, used its two new Sany America crawler cranes to lift a 90,000 pound (41 tonne) oil derrick.
In response to a growing need for efficient and cost effective lifting solutions Shuttlelift launched a new series of double-beam mobile gantry cranes.
“It’s beginning to look a lot like, Chris… ah, er…” It’s “holiday” time. When I was growing up, they called it Christmas. Now, in order to offend no one, they call it nothing. Sad.
A incident with a loader crane at Ipswich docks on Friday night has left one man dead and another seriously injured.
Following extensive trails with higher axle loadings in the UK, off-road tyre specialist Mitas has launched an All Terrain crane tyre, the CR-01 for the replacement tyre market.
We are in the year 2011 and it’s amazing to me that people are still cold calling, leaving voicemails, asking for appointments, and, in general, trying to pull out their Felix the Cat tricks that were dead and gone the moment the Internet reached awareness. (No offense, Felix.)
A lattice crane boom collapsed yesterday on a job in Garrett Indiana after its load suddenly freed after it hung up.
Two Manitowoc cranes installed a wind tower in Cleveland, Ohio, over a four-day period earlier this year. Located outside the headquarters of Lincoln Electric, the 443-foot turbine is one of the largest urban wind towers in North America.
With a maximum load of up to 208 tons, the LMH 600 is the strongest quay crane in service in the Port of Hamburg. The key feature is that Liebherr’s Synchronising Crane Control System which permits synchronised operation of two Liebherr port mobile cranes in tandem, using only one crane driver, hence increasing the ultimate load of the cranes.
Proving that no challenge is too large, Boscaro Crane Attachments took on the opportunity to build a custom ordered self dumping bin, which could possibly be the world’s largest under-hook self dumping bin.
A BURY firm has been fined £40,000 after a horrific crane accident left a man severely injured. David Collins is now a paraplegic after suffering serious injuries to his head, back and legs when metal tubes weighing as much as a transit van fell on top of him.
Italian manufacturer CTE has built a combined truck mounted aerial lift and loader crane for a fire department in Hong Kong.
Abu Dhabi Municipality is stepping up its efforts to improve crane safety by calling on contracting companies and construction consultants to regularly check that the cranes and lifting equipment working on their sites is safe to use and has a third party test certificate – a requirement since the end of October.
In the face of extreme challenges presented by Alpine weather and topography, a pair of Saez tower cranes was erected to help construct a new cableway station at Mont Blanc, one of Europe’s highest mountains. IC reports
Time lapse video of U2′s revolutionary stage “The Spaceship” being built, performed on, and taken down. Known crane companies involved: Eagle West Cranes – BC, Stampede Crane & Rigging – Alberta
