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The facilities at CAAA include more than 200 production buildings, a 72,000-square-foot (6,700 m 2) machine shop, roughly 1,800 storage buildings for both explosive and inert ammunition with a total capacity of 4,800,000 square feet (450,000 m 2), an 80-acre (320,000 m 2) demolition range and 40 acres (160,000 m 2) of ammunition burning grounds.
Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Indiana (5 C, 86 P) Pages in category "Manufacturing companies based in Indiana" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
Manitowoc Crane Care is the customer service branch of Manitowoc Cranes. Formed in 2000, [8] Crane Care provides customers with parts, service and technical support, technical publications, training, and EnCORE. The EnCORE program rebuilds and repairs run-down or damaged cranes. Manitowoc Crane Care operates in 15 countries at 22 locations.
A team of riggers design and install the lifting or rolling equipment needed to raise, roll, slide or lift objects such as heavy machinery, structural components, building materials, or large-scale fixtures with a crane, hoist or block and tackle. Rigging comes from rig, to set up or prepare.
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A crane hook and overhaul ball assembly. An overhaul hook ball, also known as an overhaul ball or headache ball, is a heavy weight that is attached to the end of a crane's cable, above the lifting hook. It is used to keep the cable under sufficient tension even when no load is attached.
A block and tackle [1] [2] or only tackle [3] is a system of two or more pulleys with a rope or cable threaded between them, usually used to lift heavy loads.. The pulleys are assembled to form blocks and then blocks are paired so that one is fixed and one moves with the load.
An insulating link is a device used on the hook of a crane to protect the crane operatives from the danger of electrocution should the crane come into contact with a power line. Insulating links are essentially robust insulators and prevent the flow of electricity from bare, suspended wires through cranes and into personnel working near the ...