Crane business

A self-erecting tower crane working on a site on West Broadway, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada caught fire earlier today, after it contacted overhead power lines.

The Edinburgh tram network has enlisted Street Crane Company to install a double girder travelling crane at the company’s Gogar depot.

Hiab unveiled four new mid-sized loader crane models, the X-CLX 178, the X-DUO 178, the X-HIDUO 188 and the X-HIPRO 192, at a launch in Berlin yesterday.

Dayton, Ohio-based Composite Advantage’s newest LargeLOAD fiberglass reinforced crane outrigger pad has been engineered for work sites operating medium and large cranes on ground with lower soil pressures.

From mining and manufacturing to construction, transportation, and agriculture, the need to weigh or measure inputs, outputs, and applied force has grown in recent decades to improve production safety and control costs.

The end of August marks the deadline to submit your 2013 nominations for Crane & Rigging Hot Line’s Top Trainer awards program!

The crawler crane that slipped off a barge in South Whidbey Harbour, in Washington state last week, has been recovered.

A 50 tonne capacity articulated crane overturned last week while making a lift in Switzerland.

A boom truck overturned onto a house in Tequesta, Florida, (north of Palm Beach) yesterday, while lifting an air conditioning unit. Thankfully no one was hurt in the incident.

A crawler crane working from a barge on a marina expansion project at South Whidbey Harbour, Langley, Washington state, was dumped in the water last wednesday, while working on sheet piles.