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It was built in 1917 by Sir William Arrol & Co. [1] It was rated to lift 150 tonnes (150 long tons; 170 short tons), and is a category A listed structure. [1] [2] Apart from an adjacent derelict mobile Smith Rodley, it is the only crane left in the dock after the yards were cleared for redevelopment. [3] The crane was used for the fitting out ...
Titan Clydebank, more commonly known as the Titan Crane is a 150-foot-high (46 m) cantilever crane at Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was designed to be used in the lifting of heavy equipment, such as engines and boilers, during the fitting-out of battleships and ocean liners at the John Brown & Company shipyard.
Upon completion, the shorter arm was tested to lift 200 tonnes (200 long tons; 220 short tons) at a radius of 72 feet 2 inches (22.00 m) and the longer arm could lift 50 tonnes (49 long tons; 55 short tons) at a radius of 139 feet 5 inches (42.49 m). [1] Railway tracks running beneath the crane allowed material to be moved from the workshops.
Equipment rental was first developed in Anglo-Saxon countries. It emerged in the UK after the First World War and has now become a multi-billion euro business providing a wide range of construction and industrial equipment for customers globally.The American Rental Association was founded as early as 1955, [1] and the first waves of consolidation took place in the 1970s in North America ...
The "hammerhead", or giant cantilever, crane is a fixed-jib crane consisting of a steel-braced tower on which revolves a large, horizontal, double cantilever; the forward part of this cantilever or jib carries the lifting trolley, the jib is extended backwards in order to form a support for the machinery and counterbalancing weight. In addition ...
Such was the case for a Gainesville investment property owner named Gina who turned to Dave Ramsey for advice when a tree removal company dropped a crane on her investment home. Don't miss
The floating barge-crane, originally named Marine Boss, was built for Murphy Pacific Marine.The barge was assembled by Zidell Explorations from scrapped ship steel in Oregon [2] in 1966 and fitted in San Francisco with a heavy 500-ton revolving crane made by Clyde Iron Works [3] to perform the heavy girder and deck-section lifts for construction of the 1967 San Mateo-Hayward Bridge.
The crane can lift 1,000 tons of debris, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Friday. But “one of the challenges is that the Key Bridge, which sits on top of the vessel right now, that weight is ...