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With a lifting capacity of 3,600 [5] to 4,000 tons, [6] a total boom length of 144 meters [3] and a total gross weight of 5,350 tons. [3] The XGC88000 crawler crane became the largest tracked mobile crane in the world, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] beating out the previous record holder, the Liebherr LR 13000 when it officially came into production in 2013.
A simple crane. A counterweight is a weight that, by applying an opposite force, provides balance and stability of a mechanical system. [1] The purpose of a counterweight is to make lifting the load faster and more efficient, which saves energy and causes less wear and tear on the lifting machine.
Weeks 533 is a 500-short-ton (454 t) capacity Clyde Iron Works model 52 barge-mounted crane which is the largest revolving floating crane on the East Coast of the United States. [1] It was originally ordered for bridge construction and has since been used in several notable heavy lifts.
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.
Some new cranes have a 120-tonne load capacity, enabling them to lift up to four 20-foot (6.1 m) or two 40-foot (12 m) containers. Cranes capable of lifting six 20-foot containers have also been designed. Post-Panamax cranes weigh approximately 800–900 tonnes, while the newer-generation super-post-Panamax cranes can weigh 1,600–2,000 tonnes.
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The Lampson LTL-2600 or Transilift 2600 is a super-heavy mobile crane.With an ultimate load capability of over 2,600 short tons-force (2,400,000 kg f), it is among the largest land-based mobile crawler cranes in existence in terms of capacity. [4]