Big tools!

Puddles · Nov 1, 2012

A very good friend of mine e-mailed this picture to me. Just wanted me to know what he was doing this morning. He is the heavy lift superintendent for the company I worked for. That is a Manitowoc 4100 being picked with one of the company's derricks. The 4100 is a 220-ton crawler crane, depending on how much counterweight you place on the 4100 I think you can increase the capacity up to around 250-ton.
Just thought I'd share.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 1, 2012

I'm pretty sure Case Nutty's DC CASE could lift that....

Glenn F.

Ultradog MN · Nov 1, 2012

It's kinda like B&D's 9N aint it?
Thanks Puddles. Great photo.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 1, 2012

I forget the mfg name off hand, but it is s multi-folding front mounted contraption which could be used for painting water towers in the next county!

Glenn F.

Puddles · Nov 1, 2012

Not sure what a DC Case is?

Ultradog, that is real close! :lol:

This is what I did for the company.

NCWayne · Nov 1, 2012

Don't know where to get a pic online, but the cover of Cranes Today Magazine back in July of this year had an awsome pic on it. In the pic Liebherr was putting on a demonstration of it's cranes. They had a LTR 1100 picking up a model crane on a plate. That crane and it's model load was in turn being picked by a LTR 1350. The 1350 and it's load was then being picked by a LR11350. Then to top it all off the other three cranes, all with their respective loads was being picked by a LR13000 while it was traveling.

Basically you had three machines picking and supporting a load, and a fourth picking that whole deal up as a load of it's own (1340 tons according to the article) and traveling with it. Wish I could find a pic of that cover, but I don't see it on their site. It is described in the test of the archive section for July of 2012 if you want to read about it.
Cranes today

Puddles · Nov 1, 2012

I don't know how true it is, but I've heard the story for years. My company's biggest competitor was doing a pile driving job down town Seattle. For one reason or another the pile driver could not reach an area to drive some piles. They brought in one of their bigger derricks to pick up the pile driver, reach in and drive these piles.
Here is my company's main competition's web site.
http://www.mansonconstruction.com/

Here is the company I worked for web site.
http://generalconstructionco.com/

keh · Nov 1, 2012

DC Case tractor made in the 1940s and early 50s. It's roughly equivalent to a Farmall M.

KEH

Jason the Red · Nov 1, 2012

Cool pic Puddles. Really puts things into perspective when you've worked alongside a similar crane to the one being hoisted and realize how big it is to start with.

Puddles · Nov 1, 2012

Jason the derrick driving the pile in the picture I posted. Is the largest derrick on the west coast. The boom weighs over 100-tons. At the heel pins at the base of the boom it is over 30-feet across!

willys53allis · Nov 2, 2012

Its funny you should mention big tools. Just got off a job on a A-frame barge removing a 8 pile jacket in the gulf of mexico, 400 tons swinging in the breeze.

Puddles · Nov 3, 2012

That is a great picture Willy! Back in my younger days I wanted to go to work in the North Sea. I've worked with lots of divers who have worked there.

Here is a 500-ton A-frame I worked on for awhile. Stacking five 300-tons chunks of concrete on top of each other for 1,500-ton anchors for a floating bridge.

Thats me up there disconnecting the crane that set the A-frame on the barge when we assembled the derrick to go set all the anchors.

Big tools!

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