Cranes Articles

PA Firm Continues 30-Year Hunt for ’Buried Treasure’ →

Dave Popple often equates his business, Pioneer Aggregates Inc., with digging for buried treasure. For more than 30 years he’s continued the hunt, always searching for better ways to get the unique materials his company mines and quarries to customers in several parts of the United States. “I do sometimes feel like a treasure hunter,” said Popple, president of Pioneer Aggregates. “We’re working in places that have been mined in the past,and you run across some unique things. Click for more...

State Agencies Determined to Save Bolsa Chica Lowland Ecosystem →

Rainfall was the biggest challenge facing the project team of the soon-to-be completed $147-million Bolsa Chica Lowland Restoration Project in Huntington Beach, CA. According to Jack M. Fancher, coastal program chief and Bolsa Chica program manager of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of Carlsbad, CA, the 1,300 gross acre (526 ha) Bolsa Chica Restoration site is an historic wetland with its elevations mostly below sea level. Click for more...

ACC Links 14,005H Telescoping Crane With Titan 70 Body →

Auto Crane Company’s 14,005H telescoping crane comes standard with an FM remote and tethered pendant, full power extension to more than 30 ft. (9.1 m), a two-speed rotation mechanism, and 60 ft./minute line speed. The 70,000 ft./lb. crane is ideal for most work environments, according to the manufacturer. In addition to the 14,005H telescoping crane’s features, the crane was designed specifically to complement the Titan 70 crane service body. Click for more...

CONRAC, People Mover to Aid Airport Congestion →

With its new fifth runway up and running, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport continues with the construction of the latest additions that will accommodate the growth at one of the world’s busiest airports, along with the growth of Atlanta itself. No project reflects the increasing population and growth in and around Atlanta more than the current construction of a new Consolidated Rental Car Facility (CONRAC), located south of Camp Creek Parkway and west of Georgia Highway 85, across from the airport. Click for more...

Budrovich Contracting Names Crane Rental President, VP →

Budrovich Contracting has promoted Darren Jaycox to the position of president of the crane rental company and Eric Struckhoff to the position of vice president/senior estimator, effective Oc. 1, 2006. Jaycox started with Budrovich in 1996 as a crane estimator. In 2000, he was promoted to the position of vice president crane rental. His duties included strategic planning, estimating, managing the estimating and operator staff, crane scheduling, and customer service and support. Click for more...

Potain MD 3200 Key to Recovering Chernobyl →

A Potain MD 3200 tower crane is the key lifting apparatus in use for the reinforcement of a collapsing wall at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in the town of Pripyat, Ukraine. The special application crane is instrumental in the reinforcement of the existing wall and roof of Nuclear Reactor Number 4, the location of a major accident 20 years ago. Two large beams have been supporting the roof of the building but are resting on the structurally unsound west wall of Reactor 4. Click for more...

Cranes Impact Air Travel at Tampa Interchanges →

While it’s no secret that road and highway improvements are oftentimes inconvenient for drivers and a challenge to general traffic flow, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has taken the anxiety factor a step further by temporarily infringing on the glide space of Tampa’s International Airport. During the three-mile long Tampa Airport Interchanges project, which began last August, a nightly closure of runway 18R36L is taking place at the discretion of Airport Duty Officers — and Mother Nature. Click for more...

Cranes Express Acquires New Iron for Its Rental Operation →

Brooklyn, NY-based Cranes Express’s Bill Sataris, partner of the company, recently accepted delivery of a Grove model GMK 3055, 55-ton (50 t) truck crane from Dennis Brophy, sales representative of Hoffman Equipment Co., Holtsville, NY. Cranes Express services contractors and industrial customers throughout the New York Metro area. Through an affiliate, it also is in the industrial roofing business. Click for more...

Final Details of Bryant-Denny Stadium Project Being ’Tide’ Up →

In the world of college football, there are a few names that resonate more than that of former University of Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant. And now, the namesake of the man who led the Crimson Tide to 323 victories, 37 winning seasons and five Associated Press national championships, Bryant-Denny Stadium, better represents the legendary sideline leader. Brice Building Company of Birmingham, AL, is wrapping up a $55 million renovation project to the stadium’s north end. Click for more...

Middlesex Takes on First Major Turnpike Project in 40 Years →

A Manitowoc 888 230-ton crane sat briefly idle after an early May rain shower at the intersection of Interstate 4 and Florida’s Turnpike in Orlando. But Middlesex Company workers got it working again as soon as they could — there’s a financial incentive in their future. Middlesex is the prime contractor in a turnpike-widening project, set to double the capacity of a 5-mi. stretch of expressway between milepost 254 at the south end of the job and milepost 259 at the north. Click for more...

E.V. Williams Invades Battlefield Blvd. →

One of the worst traffic predicaments on Interstate 64 in Chesapeake, VA, should be improved by July 2009. The I-64/Battlefield Boulevard interchange has long been a motorist’s worst nightmare because of its close proximity to the Greenbrier Parkway interchange, creating merging difficulties amid high-speed traffic. As a result, tense drivers more often than not slow down suddenly or come to halting stops — sometimes right on the interstate. Click for more...

Largest Mobile Hydraulic Crane in Missouri Makes Debut →

Budrovich Contracting has introduced the largest mobile hydraulic A/T in Missouri on June 10, 2006. Working for McCarthy Construction, the GMK 7550 550-ton crane disassembled a Liebherr 550HC20 tower crane at the Washington University School of Medicine’s Northwest Tower addition. Due to the nature of disassembling a tower crane at an urban hospital, Budrovich and McCarthy were presented with many challenges. Click for more...

Rozell Industries Expands Options With Crane Purchases →

Rozell Industries Inc. is a diverse company based in Queensbury, NY, which offers a variety of services, including a growing crane-for-hire service. With Rozell’s extensive work in building erection and steel fabrication, the company often uses a variety of cranes. In 2001, the company purchased its first crane, a Terex T340, a 40-ton (36.3 t) machine. The truck-mounted crane has 94 ft. (28.7 m) of boom and 127 ft. Click for more...

Rough Guess: $5.4B Needed to Restart NJ School Construction →

TRENTON, NJ (AP) The state would need $5.4 billion to revive 97 school construction projects stalled when the state’s school construction agency ran out of money, the agency’s chief told lawmakers May 25, though he cautioned it was a rough guess. Scott Weiner, interim head of the New Jersey Schools Construction Corp., (SCC) said the agency needed time to prioritize projects and solidify plans and costs before beginning construction anew. Click for more...

Made-to-Order Rigs Key to $150M Dey Street Job →

Two Davey Kent model 515 mini-pile drilling rigs and a Bauer BG-40 from Germany were all made-to-order rigs to meet the construction challenges of the $150-million Dey Street Concourse structural box project now under way in lower Manhattan. The design-build project, which began August 2005 and is the second of five contracts, called for the construction of at least a 1,000-ft. (304.8 m) long underground pedestrian passageway that will link (approximately 500 ft. Click for more...

Firm Brings Expert Crane Services to Jersey Contractors →

In 2001, when Joseph M. Sanzari Inc. was starting work on the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, Sanzari wanted to have his own cranes doing the work. He turned to his friend Tim Shinn, the owner and president of Kenilworth, NJ-based United Crane Rentals Inc., and together they formed Hackensack, NJ-based Sanzari-Shinn. Today, Sanzari-Shinn, which now owns nine cranes, does all the crane work for Joseph M. Click for more...

Cranes Kept Busy at NC Phosphorus Reduction Plant →

Two Link-Belt rough-terrain cranes played a key role in the $29-million McAlpine Creek WWMF Phosphorus Reduction project in Pineville, NC. According to Geoff Doyle, a project manager of Atlantic Skanska Inc., the Atlanta-based general contractor, a Link-Belt 8050 and a Link-Belt 8070, each a rough-terrain crane leased from Atlantic & Southern of Atlanta, were used to set chemical tanks, pumps, sludge processing equipment and precast concrete water sample stations throughout the 1-sq.-mi. Click for more...

Artic Cranes Power Utility Contractor Over Competitors →

When contractors need to get something done, they’re going to figure out a way to do it regardless of whether they have the perfect equipment. So most contractors aren’t a stranger to the idea of using a piece of equipment on tasks for which it isn’t meant. But these same contractors usually recognize that they’re often pressing their luck. Utility Lines Construction Services was one such company. Click for more...

BLR Companies Keeps Versatile Crane Busy in LA →

At the top of his list of qualities Jackie Duplechain was looking for in a new crane was versatility. He found it in a Link-Belt 108 Hylab 5. “On a routine basis we drive timber location pile foundations with our new Link-Belt 108 Hylab 5 on land, inshore waters and shallow marshlands. We also use it working from a floating barge or from solid ground for many other heavy lift applications. It’s a multi-functional crane, small with exceptional weight and balance,” said Duplechain, marine superintendent of BLR Companies. Click for more...

Skidmore to Head Crane Ops at ALL Crane Rental in Mobile →

ALL Crane Rental of Alabama, a division of ALL Crane Rental of Georgia, recently added Barry C. Skidmore to the staff to head up crane operations at the Mobile branch. Skidmore, who has been in the equipment business for 21 years, grew up in the industry and has been running equipment since he was 10 years old at his uncle’s contracting business, north of Mobile, AL. Skidmore stated he won safety awards as a crane operator on major projects during his previous employment with another crane rental company based in southern Mississippi. Click for more...

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