2011 Coolest Mobile Crane Photos

Below are the submissions for the 2011 Coolest Mobile Crane Photo.

1. Liebherr crawler crane and mobile crane

2. 100 ton crane, installing the Olympic rings at YVR Airport, Vancouver BC, Canada

3. Linkbelt 8675 inside cocker pit up righting a rolled over front loader

4. Project at a local oil refinery in Southern California

5. Dallas Cowboy’s Stadium

6. Wooden mobile crane in Casper, Wyoming this past February

7. Pacific Blasting & Demolition taking down the last roof cables at BC Place, Vancouver using 3 cranes to disperse the weight and control the cable lowering for removal

8. Orbit Crane Rental, Assembling Balistic Missels, at the United States Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio inside the missel silo

9. The Grove GMK7550 fully erected with luffing jib ready to lift air handlers onto the Federal Courthouse in Downtown Tampa, FL

10. Peace River

11. Selexol Pipe Rack Module designed by Adam Parker at Mullen Crane

12. Manitowoc 18000 setting Clipper wind turbines in Kansas at 2:00 a.m

13. Trochu wind farm in Alberta, BC Canada by Stampede Crane & Rigging

14. Stampede crane lifting a cat excavator out of a new building excavation . The cat weighed 87,000 lbs

15. Crane pulling out a complete deep well turbine pump in one piece. It is from a local cemetery and is about 110′ deep

16. Tadano 220G-5 performing a Manitowoc 2250 break down by Crane Service Inc. in the Trent, Texas wind farms

17. A Liebherr LTM 1500 crane lifting the full blade assembly of a Siemens 2.3 MW wind turbine into place in Ireland

18. A pump being pulled on the North Fork of the Snake River in Southeastern Idaho

19. Setting up a 32t SWL Gantry crane with 45m Hook stroke, manufactured by Ace Crane Systems in Dubai

20. Building a Liebherr 500 tons of a Liebherr 140 EC-H on an elevator shaft in Cologne

21. Fleet of Grove Pickers ready for the day….

22. Imperial Crane took delivery of its SCC8300, the new 330 US Ton Crawler Crane from Sany America, and immediately put it to work on a wind farm in California

23. Shuttlelift ISL 30B 30-ton mobile gantry crane is lifting wind blades that are 9.42 ft (2.87 m) at their widest point and 147.64 feet (45 m) long

24. Northern Crane’s Liebherr LG1550 in action at the Pincher Creek wind farm in Southern Alberta

25. A Manitowoc 888 being relocated hook ready using a 300 ton lowboy in Colombia S.A.

26. Sunsetting on an 18000 Manitowoc

27. Sand storm in Iraq rolling in with an AC-50 and 60 ton Link-belt RT in the foreground

28. Air traffic control tower cab set

29. An LTM 1400 lifting a yacht at Port Everglades, in Fort Lauderdale, FL

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31. You can see the clear separation of clear sky and smoke/ash layer as the sun sets near Slave Lake

32. Harrison Crane Service utilizing 240 ton, 175 ton, and 165 ton hydros to erect large straddle crane

33. Merit Construction Northwest Villaggio II Project in Tacoma, Washington

34. You can always find a parking spot for small car!

35. Operator’s cab of a Link Belt HC 138

36. Ainscough Crane Hires Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 with full luffing jib ready to boom up, Look at the deflection

37. 500 Ton Mobile Crane building a 300 Ton EBCO-KONE Hybird Mobile Track Crane with 30 Ton in background for BC’s Ship Building Industry. Never done before