Had a great day today watching the new CC2800 go together 50m away from the crane i was driving, best thing is I was not surpossed to be there but a driver phoned in sick and i had to cover his crane.

while walking in i saw this, thinking great, i might get to see some of the loads go in (unknown to me at the time i was going to be working right next to it)



While walking up to site i saw this in the distance



I immediatly had to get a closer look





then i saw a few of the loads





I now, over the next few hours got to see our LTM1200 come in and put the tracks on





one for the dirt boys, a CAT dumper



Back to cranes , arrival of the LTM1200



Reeving up the big block



Lifting the tracks, 44.9t









Tracks on and she's mobile.



Tracks on down a ramp into postition.





While more wagons arrive



here's the crane i was driving, a LTM1030/2...baby crane!!!



200 sits at the top of the ramp and unloads wagons



Then reachs down to the CC with the base slab



and continues unloading!



And stacking weights





final picture is just before i left, just putting the 1st part of the back bast on and they where calling it a night.



unfortunatly i will not be back there tomorrow as i was covering another driver so i will not be able to get anymore......not a bad set of photo's though

Watch the olympic park webcams tomorrow and you might see a big blue boom go up

enjoy
Gaz

And they were not yours for a change . See if you can get any more pictures of Sarens new TC2800 and i'll get them up for you mate.

gutted i'm not back there tomorrow, whould have sold my Granny to be there when they pull that boom up.

Gaz

Lifting Scaffolding onto the bridge beams the CC2800 will be putting in, they scaffold the whole bridge out before they lift it over the river.

Gaz

If you look at the last picture the tower crane and Weldex crawlers you can see in the back ground are on the Veledrome site, its right on the northern edge of the park near the entrance.

Gaz

great pics Gaz,she looks really good,could seriously do with a 1/50 version

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Gaz...In the 6th pic... is that chain ..going throgh 2 lacing's and over a chord with no softner in the heel section?

Thats what it looks like ... bad JU JU...


Hell'uva nice unit ...great pic's ..

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Very nice pictures! It is my ambition one day to be on site when a large crawler gets built up like that. Would love to see the whole process for myself.

Paul R

That is one that someone should be looking at reproducing as a WSI model! It does look great.

Paul R

Fantastic set of pics gaz, did you get any work done yourself at all for the day?!!

Noel.

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Noel.

homer beat me to asking if you got any work done !!!!
nice pics gaz pity you won't be back