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Link-Belt Beefs Up Carrier Features on HC-238H II →

Link-Belt introduced the new HC-238H II 150-ton (136 t) capacity lattice boom truck crane during the CraneFest 2000 show at its Lexington, KY, manufacturing facility. This first public appearance of the newest member of the Hydraulic Lattice Boom (HYLAB) family included a demonstration of the crane’s features and benefits including walking with the new luffing attachment. The HC-238H II joins the 200-ton (180 t) HC-248H and the 300-ton (272 t) HC-278H in the series of HYLAB Series of lattice boom truck cranes. Click for more...

Manitowoc’s MAX-ER Picks Up the Pace With Increased Travel Ability →

Manitowoc Cranes Inc., Manitowoc, WI, has announced a new MAX-ER 2000 attachment that dramatically increases the lifting capability of its 300-ton (272 t) model 2250 crane and offers improved set-up time. The new MAX-ER 2000 improves on the capacity and reach offered by its predecessor, the MAX-ER 225. Other important features of the MAX-ER 2000 include increased luffing-jib capacities; improved set-up time; the ability to travel with any lifted load; modules that can be transported easily by truck; the versatility of several combinations of booms, fixed jibs, and luffing jibs with total lengths to 620 ft. Click for more...

Shawmut Leans on GMK5210 →

The Grove GMK5210 all terrain crane is the flagship of the fleet for Shawmut Crane & Rigging Company of South Boston, MA. They use it as a taxi crane and a recent typical day had it working in Lowell, MA, lifting three air conditioners to the roof of a 200-ft. high building. For this job, the main boom was fully extended to 197 ft. (60 m) and the 98-ft. (29.8 m) luffing jib was adjusted to a 20-degree offset. Click for more...

Kobelco CK850 Crawler Crane Hoists Heavy Loads Sky High →

Kobelco America Inc. improves its line of hydraulic lattice boom crawler cranes with the introduction of the new 85-ton (77 t) CK850 crane. It features strong lifting capacities, wet-type disc brakes, and a long reach. Kobelco’s CK850 crane has a 213-hp (158 kW) Mitsubishi 6D16-TLED diesel engine. This six-cylinder engine, with a 460 cu. in. (7,538 cu cm) displacement, is water-cooled, fuel-injected, intercooled and turbocharged to deliver lifting and traveling power. Click for more...

Link-Belt Takes Booms to the ’A-Max’ →

Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company recently introduced the RTC-8060, a 60-ton (54.43 t) telescopic rough-terrain crane. Boom Design The RTC-8060 features a standard 35.5 to 110 ft. (10.82 to 33.53 m), full power, quick-reeve four- section boom with a maximum tip height of 172 ft. (52.43 m), with attachments. The boom features two Link-Belt exclusive boom designs — the “A-Max,” mode for optimum strength and stability charts and the “BOSS.” For in close, big picks, the “A-max” mode (or mode A) allows the operator to extend only the inner-mid section of the boom to maximize the crane’s optimum strength and stability. Click for more...

Manitowoc 2250 Supercharges Power Plant Construction →

A Manitowoc 2250 crawler crane is playing a powerful role in the construction of an 800-MW co-generation power plant in Sayreville, NJ. During the construction, the crane will lift components that weigh up to 300,000 lbs. for Midwest Mechanical Contractors of New Jersey Inc., who is installing the heat recovery steam generators or HRSG. The crane will lift the 150-ft.-long by 30-ft.-wide by 85-ft.-high HRSG during the yearlong contract to build the Red Oak Co-Generation Plant. The 2250 was selected for its exceptional lifting capacity and versatility, according to Dan Kearney, vice president/operations manager, Midwest Mechanical. Click for more...

Steffy Cranes Reaches New Heights With Grove Crane →

Steffy Cranes, Ephrata, PA, is taking its customers to new heights with the help of Grove Cranes and L.B. Smith Inc., Camp Hill, PA. Steffy Cranes recently purchased a Grove GMK 5210, the largest unit of this crane rental house, to meet the growing needs of its customers. The history of Steffy Cranes Inc. is traced to Ira G. Steffy & Son’s first crane purchase in 1985 for steel erection. Four cranes later, in 1988, Steffy Cranes was incorporated. Business continued to grow and in 1992, the company purchased its 120-ton Grove hydraulic crane. Click for more...

Seventeen Cranes Hoist Big-I Sky High Above New Mexico →

Progress, many locals will tell you, doesn’t always steamroll its way into New Mexico. No wonder there is widespread amazement with the rapidly changing landscape at Albuquerque’s “Big-I.” On any given day, up to 17 cranes stretch skyward. Their work began in June 2000, but they’ve already made quite an impression on Duke City residents. The Big-I is where east/west Interstate-40 intersects north/ south Interstate-25. Click for more...

Greystone Plant Jacks Up for Quick, Easy Relocation →

Producers can eliminate sand-hauling costs with the highly-mobile Aggre-Washer and Screening Plant manufactured by Columbus, Nebraska-based GreyStone Inc. The portable Aggre-Washer and Screening Plant can be relocated and ready for processing fine materials in a single production shift by folding down the feed hopper and removing the blocking. GreyStone has five portable models with horizontal screens to choose from and also manufactures 10 semiportable models with horizontal or incline screens. Click for more...

MoDOT, Contractors Cap Decades of Planning With Bold $550M Overhaul →

Three decades in the planning and the subject of a ballot initiative, the Page Avenue extension is a Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) project that is adding a fourth bridge across the Missouri River. At an approximate cost of $550 million, the Page Avenue extension is a 20-mi. (32 km) project connecting Interstate 270 in St. Louis County to Route 40/61 in St. Charles County. MoDOT will extend the existing road from where it ends at Bennington Road in Maryland Heights through Creve Coeur Park and across the Missouri River into St. Click for more...

Cranes Crowd Sky Above Charleston →

Historic Charleston, SC, nicknamed “The Holy City” because of the many churches that still dominate its skyline, may soon have to be renamed “Tower City.” Tower cranes have rarely been seen in the historic district because height requirements designed to preserve the 18th century ambience prohibit high rises. But with available building sites becoming fewer and often inaccessible to conventional equipment, local contractors are turning to tower cranes to get the job done. Click for more...

Link-Belt Unit to the Rescue! RTC Answers Emergency Calls →

Most electrical power plants, such as the Fayette Power Project in LaGrange, TX, have been on-line for more than 20 years and must be constantly upgraded to comply with newer, more stringent anti-pollution requirements. This is a challenge for many plant operators. The old plants are often being asked to produce more and cheaper electricity at a time when they must frequently be off-line to perform vital preventive maintenance or rehabilitation procedures. Click for more...

Gelder Brings Half Century of Experience to Raleigh Streets →

Spring came early to North Carolina, and crews of Gelder and Associates Inc. got a quick start on a summer-long project to repave 170 streets in Raleigh. The veteran paving company won a NC Department of Transportation and city contract to rework and resurface streets in every district of Raleigh. Rains in April caused some early disruption of the work. But the next month, temperatures were unseasonably warm and the asphalt was being laid in mid-summer conditions: hot and fast. Click for more...

J&J Truck Equipment Named Top Auto Crane Distributor →

J&J Truck Equipment, a division of Somerset Welding and Steel Inc., recently announced that it has been named the top distributor of Auto Crane service bodies, cranes, and compressors by the Auto Crane Company. The Presidential Award for outstanding achievement was given in recognition of J&J Truck Equipment’s excellence in sales for 1999. The award was presented by Alan Marsh, regional sales manager of the Auto Crane Company. Click for more...

7 Million Pounds of Steel Steady KY’s First Cable-Stayed Span →

Construction of Kentucky’s first cable-stayed bridge is currently underway between Maysville, KY, and Aberdeen, OH. The Maysville Bridge span the Ohio River, approximately three miles down stream from the existing Kenton Simon Bridge. The old bridge – which was built in 1931 and is reported to be a prototype of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA – will remain in operation after the completion of the new span. Click for more...

Grove Delivers Largest Crane in South Central Pennsylvania →

The Charles E. Brake Co. of St. Thomas, PA, took delivery of its new Grove TMS875C crane in April. The TMS875C, with a 67.5-metric-ton (75 ton) rating, made it the largest truck crane owned in Grove’s immediate local area of Franklin and Washington counties. On hand for the delivery were numerous Grove and Brake Company officials including Harold Brake, chairman, who noted that the crane will provide additional capability for a wide range of general construction lifting jobs. Click for more...

After Decades of Waiting, Parkway Comes to Clinton, MS →

A concrete bridge that will have six distinctive arches is becoming the centerpiece of a $9.1-million parkway being constructed in the city of Clinton, MS. Clinton is located 10 miles west of the state’s capitol city, Jackson. Officials in Clinton awarded the bid for the 4-lane parkway in late 1999 to Key Constructors of Madison, MS. The need for such a parkway to link north and south Clinton was discussed for decades before it became a reality. Click for more...

$450M Power Plant Lights Up Texas Cities →

The fact that Texas continues to place second in population nationwide behind California is not surprising. It’s a big state, and it’s growing. The United States Census Bureau’s statistics for the period between July 1, 1998 and July 1, 1999 support that fact. Estimates for that year showed that Texas ranked third behind Utah and Alaska in population growth. Consequently, the construction industry is booming and, to satisfy demand, energy plants are springing up all over the state. Click for more...

Contractor’s Companies Stay True Blue to Grove Cranes →

Bryant Marriner’s cranes range in size from a machine that can lift 157.5 metric tons (175 tons) to several that weigh only about one-half kilogram (1 lb.). He clearly loves them all, as anyone can tell who catches him at work and can squeeze out a few minutes of his time. More about the tiny cranes later; all of his really big machines are Grove. “Every crane I own is Grove,” Marriner said on a warm March morning between dispatching trucks and cranes to various job sites throughout central North Carolina. Click for more...

McCarthy Gets Physical in Colorado →

When the design/build team of Gerald H. Phipps Inc. of Denver, CO, and McCarthy of St. Louis, MO, won the $79.2-million bid to construct the Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion in Denver, they wasted no time in getting started. In fact, with a projected completion date of March 2001, it will have taken the team just over two years to build the 43,650-square-meter (485,000 sq. ft.) building. As Project Manager Jerry Willis explained, plans for the 1,400-room facility were first drawn in February 1999 and the groundbreaking came just three months later. Click for more...

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