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2. Gantry crane - Wikipedia

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   A gantry crane is a crane built atop a gantry, which is a structure used to straddle an object or workspace. They can range from enormous "full" gantry cranes, capable of lifting some of the heaviest loads in the world, to small shop cranes, used for tasks such as lifting automobile engines out of vehicles.

3. Overhead crane - Wikipedia

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   Gantry-style overhead cranes of the Hainaut quarry in Soignies, Belgium. An overhead crane, commonly called a bridge crane, is a type of crane found in industrial environments. An overhead crane consists of two parallel rails seated on longitudinal I-beams attached to opposite steel columns by means of brackets. The traveling bridge spans the gap.

4. National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators

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   The organization is run by a Board of Directors with a President, Vice-President, and 30 Commissioners from 10 industry groups. The Commissioners make up ten Exam Management Committees with the responsibility of monitoring written and practical certification examinations for mobile, tower, overhead, and articulating (loader or knuckle-boom) crane operators, digger derrick operators, crane ...

5. Hunter's Point crane - Wikipedia

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   A large trapezoidal frame was erected atop the gantry crane for the UGM-73 Poseidon missile test facility; the structural members were lifted by Marine Boss in 1967. [8] The addition of the frame brought the total height of the crane to nearly 500 feet (150 m). The crane dominates the landscape in the area, as it is easily visible from miles ...

6. Rubber tyred gantry crane - Wikipedia

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   A rubber tyred gantry crane (US: rubber tired gantry crane)/ RTG (crane), or sometimes transtainer, is a wheeled mobile gantry crane operated to ground or stack intermodal containers. Inbound containers are stored for future pickup by drayage trucks, and outbound are stored for future loading onto vessels. RTGs typically straddle multiple lanes ...

7. Taisun - Wikipedia

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   The Guinness World Records state that Taisun holds the world record for "heaviest weight lifted by crane", set on April 18, 2008 at 20,133 metric tonnes (44,385,667.25 lb) by lifting a barge, ballasted with water. [3] However, it was surpassed by the Honghai Crane when the new crane was completed in 2014, with a lift capacity at 22,000 tonnes. [5]

8. Wigan Springs Branch TMD - Wikipedia

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   The shed was fitted an electric wheel drop, overhead gantry cranes and illuminated inspection pits. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] In 1955 the "No 2" shed was re-roofed with a steel frame covered in corrugated iron sheeting.

9. Samson and Goliath (cranes) - Wikipedia

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   Each crane has a span of 140 metres (459 ft) and can lift loads of up to 840 tonnes to a height of 70 metres (230 ft). Their combined lifting capacity of almost 1,700 tonnes is one of the largest in the world. Prior to commissioning, the cranes were tested up to 1,000 tonnes, which bent the gantry downwards by over 30 centimetres (12 in).