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Macclay

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Been lurkin for a while now, but today we finished of a job in style and had to share. I've done heaps of crane jobs but nothing like this.

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Just happend to have a few small cranes laying around?


We were doing a job for a crane company who had just acquired the adjacent block of land, they needed it cleared for more storage space, I'd knocked over all the trees on the block and just had a few over over one of their sheds and a couple in their guard dog run, no biggie, i was just going to through some string up and pull 'em over. The boss comes over and asks would we like to use one of there cranes, we'll, i've never been known to knock a good thing back and i certainly wasn't starting now. It was a 248 ton crawler crane, awsome piece of gear, but sloooow. we just picked 'em up, laid 'em down and mowed 'em up, didn't even heat the glow plugs on the chipper
 
Ok, 2 Man card punches for using the big crane but you get a 1 punch deduction for using the small hook and not the big one! So what if it would have taken 20' of rope to get around that hook, it was begging for use. :laugh:

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Sick Pics.

Down in South TX we had an army of 1000-ton(...?) 400-ft work height crawlers for putting up the Gulf Wind project in Sarita TX. Someone told me they weighed 1.8 million pounds each, and I think the biggest one of the bunch was 38-ft wide. I know it took 2 smaller (100+ ton...?) cranes about a month just to assemble each crane on site, as the componenets were trucked in.

They never let me play with them...

I am jealous. Awesome Pics.
 
They had a 600 ton crane coming back from somewhere, i was told, with some pride, that it took 112 semi trailer loads to move, could lift 250t from over 100 metres.
 
Yeah Bro, the cranes around these days are unbelievable. I am making my living building power now, and I project manage alot of wind farm development project. Some of the equipment brought in to fly the rotors, nacells, and cans is absolutely absurd. I would guess that it took atleast 100 semis to haul in the biggest crane we had down in TX, if not more... it seemed like they just kept coming, for days.
 
We used this one (100t) at an old remote freshwater dam, the pipe from the dam to the pumphouse cracked and because of the terrain/severe angle and loose rocks they had to put the pipe down in one length(65m), there was nowhere to rope off so we jumped in a man box and slashed away to make a hole. That's the pipe off to the right of the crane.

Good times

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Love the pic's but I think you are now the BMOAS our job looks small now:cry:


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BMOAS = big man on arborist site
 
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