MORE random pics......

[GH85Carrera]

Someone struck GOLD!

[dependencies]

Aksum obelisk delivery Ethiopia
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/122

[pokey]

[dependencies]

Russian antartic water hole

[TimT]

That Excavator climbing is amazing, I was wondering if it was an electro-magnet mounted in place of the bucket. Instead it looks like some sort of interlocking shoe with with hydro pins to lock..

Still big set of coconuts on the operator...

[TimT]

I don't have any crane carnage pics anymore... since a major HD crash a few years ago..

[dependencies]

Oh I think I have that covered,

The digger ( I think) uses his
Quick release pins that would normally hitch buckets on/off

Even so I have to hide behind a curtain every time I watch the player

[sammyg2]

This crane fell over and was crushed at a refinery about 6 months before I went to work there. They took it apart with cutting torches and sold it for scrap.
For reference, those blue cross-braces on the mast? 6" schedule 80 steel pipe.

IIRC, one of it's sister cranes went over at miller park in Wisconsin.

This crane is one of forty-two in the world. LAMPSON'S TRANSI-LIFT Series II A ®
can pick 1,100 ton, With a simple modification to it's structure the capacity can be
increased to 4,000 tons , And it's all Mobile. It took 80 semitrailers to deliver
it , and over three weeks to assemble, it has over 1 mile of cable strung through-out its
block and tackle. Below is a picture of a WORLD RECORD lift for a single mobile crane
1,000 TON it's a tower in Corpus Christi ,Texas. Above is a picture of it lifting a
455 ton heat exchanger at Kennecott Utah Copper at the Smelter , its setting on a cement re bar reinforced pad that is 18" thick .It took a total of 3 cranes to build,at a cost
of over $1Million for the pad and just over $1.25 Million for three picks.

[dependencies]

$5 if you can guess the purpose.....

[sammyg2]

Another picture of that Lampson crane building a coker unit. Those superstructures are almost 200 feet tall when finished.

[dependencies]

was that the famous 'big blue' I've seen crashing down.

Think it was a football stadium where it collapsed carrying a huge roof structure killing worker

[stomachmonkey]

[dependencies]

No. I can see the derrick is a different layout

[dependencies]

Just noticed that in a few days it will be the
7th birthday of this thread

and just look how many people have both contributed and browsed it,
its a great draw for pelican I'd imagine,

Should we celebrate with some special images?

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by dependencies

No. I can see the derrick is a different layout

They are both lapson transi-lift cranes, just with different configurations. They are custom-assembled on site depending on the type of lift(s) needed, from 150 feet of stick to over 600 feet.

[dependencies]

Cranes are all sorcery really arent they

[nynor]

armored reconnaissance vehicle.

Originally Posted by dependencies

$5 if you can guess the purpose.....

[pwd72s]

[dependencies]

[nynor]

yeah, well, i got it first!