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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.
Lodbrok is a floating crane, in the harbor of Ystad 2020. A crane vessel, crane ship, crane barge, or floating crane is a ship with a crane specialized in lifting heavy loads, typically exceeding 1,500 t (1,476 long tons; 1,653 short tons) for modern ships. The largest crane vessels are used for offshore construction. [1]
The crane barge was built by Kelso Marine in Galveston, Texas [6] [7] for Sun Shipbuilding in 1972 at a cost of nearly $5 million. [2] [8] At the time, it was the largest crane ship in the world. [8] The crane was initially able to lift 800 short tons (710 long tons; 730 t), and so was named Sun 800. [9]
1600 ton maximum lift capacity sheerleg Taklift 7 of Smit International. A floating sheerleg (also: shearleg) is a floating water vessel with a crane built on shear legs. Unlike other types of crane vessel, it is not capable of rotating its crane independently of its hull. There is a huge variety in sheerleg capacity.
Greco-Roman Trispastos ("Three-pulley-crane"), a simple crane type (150 kg load) A crane for lifting heavy loads was developed by the Ancient Greeks in the late 6th century BC. [7] The archaeological record shows that no later than c. 515 BC distinctive cuttings for both lifting tongs and lewis irons begin to appear on stone blocks of Greek ...
Tatra T815 8x8 crane with low cab Manually controlled mechanical Tatra transmission [ 4 ] which is mounted directly on the auxiliary transmission case, and which, therefore, is an integrated part of the chassis with 10 or 14 gears with two auxiliary gears.
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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. A hoist, the lifting component of a crane, travels along the bridge.