Cranes Articles

Pinnacle Cranes Expands in North Carolina →

Recognizing the importance of branching out to meet its clients needs, North Carolina’s Pinnacle Cranes has opened a new service facility in Raleigh. The expansion was made official the first of January 2013. “This will allow us to better serve our crane customers in the eastern part of the state,” said Jim Mackinson, Pinnacle Cranes vice-president and general manager. “The facility will enable us to provide local service and parts support for the Link-Belt, Shuttlelift, Elliott and Manitex cranes.”Established in 2001 as the crane division of Carolina Tractor, Pinnacle Cranes offers one of the Southeast’s largest crane inventories of new, used and rental equipment, providing vehicles for every construction crane and related industry application needed. Click for more...

NYC Officials Still Searching for Cause of Crane Collapse →

NEW YORK (AP) Work remained suspended Jan. 10 at the site of New York City’s latest crane collapse as engineers try to determine what caused the equipment to fall. The Department of Buildings said investigators were still at the construction site in the borough of Queens a day after the collapse injured seven construction workers. The crane’s 170-ft. (52 m) long boom fell Jan. 9 onto metal scaffolding and the wooden framework that made up the first floor of what will be a 25-story apartment building. Click for more...

Helicopter Collides Into Crane in London →

LONDON (AP) — A helicopter crashed into a crane and fell on a crowded street in central London during rush hour Wednesday, sending black plumes of smoke into the air as it smashed to the ground. The pilot and one person on the ground were killed and 13 others injured, officials said. The helicopter crashed just south of the River Thames near the Underground and mainline train station at Vauxhall, and near the British spy agency MI6. Click for more...

Dawes Earns SC&RA’s 2012 Crane Operator Safety Award →

Five crane operators from Dawes Rigging & Crane Rental, Inc. in Milwaukee, Wis., a member of the ALL Erection & Crane Rental Inc. Family of Companies, were honored by the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association with SC&RA’s 2012 Crane Operator Safety Award for their outstanding safety records of 10,000 consecutive man-hours without a single recordable injury or illness. Each man also was presented with a special SC&RA safety vest. Click for more...

Woods CRW, Classen Crane Reach for the Sky Together →

Classen Crane Service has a very long and strong relationship with Woods CRW and Chris Palmer, president. Classen’s purchased its very first crane from Palmer in 1993, and every crane since. The newest — a Link-Belt HTC86100 100-ton (90.7 t) telescopic boom truck crane — is the fifteenth crane that Classen’s has purchased from Woods CRW. The new crane is replacing a Link-Belt HTC8690, which Classen’s had purchased in 2005. Click for more...

Pinnacle Cranes Hosts Appreciation Event for Blythe Construction Co. →

On Nov. 20 Pinnacle Cranes, a division of Carolina Tractor, held a customer appreciation lunch for the entire crew working on Blythe Construction Company’s I-485 Charlotte, N.C., outer loop extension. The event was held at the field office trailer area of the Blythe project. Pinnacle Cranes wanted to thank the people at Blythe Construction Company for their business and felt preparing lunch for them a few days before Thanksgiving was appropriate. Click for more...

LTR 1060 Combines Advantages of Both Telescopic, Crawler Cranes →

With its 131 ft. (40 m) telescopic boom, Liebherr's LTR 1060 70-ton (63.5 t) crane goes beyond the telescopic crawler cranes currently available in this size class both with regard to load capacity as well as its boom length. In addition to this, the telescopic boom can be extended with a double swing-away jib from 31 to 52 ft. (9.5 to 16 m) in length, which enables heights under hook of up to 179 ft. Click for more...

Foley Inc. Becomes Authorized Kobelco Cranes Distributor →

Jeff Merle, vice president of machinery sales, announced that Foley Inc. has become the authorized distributor of Kobelco Cranes in New Jersey, including the surrounding Philadelphia and New York City metro areas. In addition to selling the product, Foley will provide parts and service support to both new and existing Kobelco customers in the territory. Since 2004, Kobelco Cranes is a construction machinery manufacturer specializing in cranes and related equipment. Click for more...

Link-Belt Holds CraneFest 2012 at Its HQ in Lexington, Ky. →

Link-Belt Cranes held CraneFest 2012 at its company headquarters in Lexington, Ky., during the week of Sept. 23. Nearly 1,000 crane dealers, rental houses and end users from the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Panama, South Africa, Trinidad and the United Kingdom attended the event in groups of 200 to 250 for a series of two- day sessions that ran throughout the week. On the Friday before CraneFest began, attendees of the SC&RA Crane & Rigging Workshop also were treated to a plant tour and luncheon at the Lexington facility. Click for more...

CUES Plans NCCCO Crane Training Classes in N.H. →

CUES Inc. (Consolidated Utility Equipment Service) has scheduled crane training classes at its Amherst, N.H., location. The courses, which run from Oct. 15 to 19, are being led by Associated Training Services (ATS). The training sessions will help participants learn the written material and the skills needed to pass written and practical exams on a variety of crane types. Classes also will include NCCCO (National Commission for Certification of Crane Operators) certification and mobile crane operator certification. Click for more...

Calif. Crane Operator Unearths 10-in. Prehistoric Woolly Mammoth Tooth →

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A woolly mammoth tooth with its enamel still intact has been discovered during the excavation for a new transit center in downtown San Francisco. A crane operator came across the 10-in.-long brown, black and beige tooth on Sept. 10 while digging a 200-ft. hole for a piling at the Transbay Transit Center. Woolly mammoths, elephant-like animals, roamed the San Francisco Bay area some 10 million to 15 million years ago in the Pleistocene era. Click for more...

Sterett Equipment Named Terex Crane Distributor →

Sterett Equipment is an authorized Terex crane distributor for the states of Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. Sterett Equipment now provides local equipment sales, service and parts support for a wide range of Terex crane models, delivering lift capabilities ranging from 10 to 3,520 tons (9 to 3,200 t) . “Sterett Equipment is a solid company with vast amount of experience in the crane industry,” said Tony Marlin, regional sales director of Terex Cranes. Click for more...

Single Terex AC 500-2 Crane Does Job of Two 250-Ton Cranes →

For Decatur, Ala.’s Solley Crane Service, hoisting a 140-ton (127 t) object previously meant mobilizing multiple cranes. “For a job that size, we would use two of our 250-ton cranes and do a tandem lift,” explained Ray Solley, president of Solley Crane Service. With its recent acquisition of the 600-ton (544 t) capacity class Terex AC 500-2 all terrain crane, that same 140-ton piece can now be lifted with a single crane, with room to spare. Click for more...

Empire Crane Hosts Northeast Regional Qualifier Rodeo →

On Aug. 23 Empire Crane hosted the Northeast Regional Qualifier Event for the 2012 Crane Operator Rodeo. The event was sponsored by The Crane Institute of America, Liebherr Crane, The Crosby Group and Manitowoc. Hundreds of spectators looked on as twenty-two operators competed in the rodeo to win one of two all expense paid trips to the rodeo finals, which will be held in Orlando, Fla., in October. Click for more...

Pinnacle Crane Brings Link-Belt TCC-750 Into Lineup →

Pinnacle Cranes, Charlotte, N.C., recently took delivery of the first Link-Belt TCC-750 75-ton (68 t) telescopic crawler crane to enter the Carolina market. In order to prepare Pinnacle’s crane technicians to handle the product, Link-Belt trainers came to Pinnacle to review all aspects of the TCC-750. Jim Mackinson, general manager, Pinnacle, explained that the Link-Belt team would be reviewing the computer, the logistics of assembly, the loading and unloading, the load charts and the local daily service of the TCC-750 with the crane technicians. Click for more...

Rudd, Link-Belt Help McAdoo Crane Service Thrive →

When Bill McAdoo started his towing business back in 1965, he had no idea that one day he also would be operating a crane service. When he started the business, he was towing cars and light trucks and soon expanded to include heavy towing. Frequently called upon to help out after tractor trailer accidents, the state police encouraged McAdoo to consider adding a crane to his fleet as it would be useful for lifting trucks and trailers in rollover accidents and other cleanup situations. Click for more...

Caccioppoli Named Crane Carrier Sales Specialist at Foley →

Bill Connolly, on highway division sales manager at Foley, Incorporated announced that Mark Caccioppoli has joined the company as a sales specialist of Crane Carrier, which Foley recently became a dealer for in the state of New Jersey and nine counties in Pennsylvania. Caccioppoli comes to Foley Inc. with extensive knowledge of the heavy duty truck field, having worked for several large truck manufacturers resulting in more than 30 years of experience. Click for more...

ALL Crane Rental Wins Award →

ALL Crane Rental of Tennessee was presented in July with the Governor’s Award of Excellence for Workplace Safety and Health by the Tennessee Governor’s Office and the Tennessee office of OSHA. The company was honored for completing three consecutive years with no recordable or lost time incidents. The prestigious Governor’s Award is given to only a select few companies in the state each year. Click for more...

Developer Uses Ruse to get Crane by Protesters →

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia developer says it used a decoy truck to sneak a construction crane onto property where it’s renovating a former factory into residential space. Union protesters have been blocking equipment and deliveries at the former Goldtex site in the city’s loft district over complaints the developer is using non-unionized workers. But Post Brothers Apartments says it employed a decoy truck and a circuitous route on Wednesday to sneak a crane on to the property accompanied by private security. Click for more...

Jones Brings Back Atlantic Coast Cranes & Machinery →

Effective Nov. 15, 2011, Atlantic Coast Cranes & Machinery Inc. (ACC) was back in business in Ashland, Va. Owner Wally Jones originally started Atlantic Coast Cranes & Machinery in 1991 with his colleague of 40 years, Dennis Samuel. The dealership included only two lines: American crane products and JLG boom trucks. That original company grew into a full-service Terex American and Terex Demag dealer serving Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia and the Carolinas. Click for more...

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