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These photos were taken from the M2 Motorway bridge in Kent, UK, during the construction of a large concrete bridge that will carry the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) over the River Medway between the Channel Tunnnel and St Pancreas station in central London. My company were the specialist piling contractor on the bridge and we installed sheet pile cofferdams for about 17 of the bridge piers. The largest piers were the 2 main circular structures in the river. We constructed temporary jetties, one on each river bank, to allow the crane to get alongside the pier location. The cofferdam in the photos is 22m diameter and was formed using 20m long LX32 sheet piles. They were driven by a remote control Giken G3 hydraulic pile press. When the cofferdam was complete it was filled with stone ballast. This allowed auger boring piling rigs to travel onto the stone to drive the 40m long concrete piled foundations.  Not sure about the crane model, but is was an American with a lifting capacity of around 250 tonnes.      While the large circular cofferdams are being constructed, piled foundations are being installed on the river bank within sheet pile cofferdams that we installed previously.  regards, Tony
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Thanks for the pics. Always good to see an American in action. And a pretty impressive selection of "cranage" there! 
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Hi Tony Thanks for the posting the pic's. I am pretty sure it's not an American. Shape of the cabin is not right same for the counterweight. This type of boomstops was only used on the 10320 which it is defenite not. The a frame is different from the American style and some more signs tell me it's not an american. To me it seems more like a british crane mayby one of the bigger nck's or an R&B. think you are pretty close with the lifting capacity. would be intresting if someone could indentify it. Nice looking crane and some good pic's anyway Eef
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Eef
the small black and white crane in question looks very similar to that of a NCK Rapier Andes C41.
Its a little too difficult to confirm from the photograph.
Marcus
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Hi Marcus You might be right about that. But the one one i am talking about is main subject in this post the big yellow one. That does not seems like an american to me. But having a look at the two other black and white one's i am pretty sure the bigger one of those two is an american. Even think it's an 7260 only the boom tip makes doubt a little so that seems like 2 almost sure are indentified now only the big yellow one is left ??? sorry for the confusion that i created Eef
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The yellow crawler on the trestle looks like a Bucyrus (B-E or R-B) machine.
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eef7260 wrote:Hi Tony
Thanks for the posting the pic's.
I am pretty sure it's not an American.
Shape of the cabin is not right same for the counterweight.
This type of boomstops was only used on the 10320 which it is defenite not.
The a frame is different from the American style
and some more signs tell me it's not an american.
To me it seems more like a british crane
mayby one of the bigger nck's or an R&B.
think you are pretty close with the lifting capacity.
would be intresting if someone could indentify it.
Nice looking crane and some good pic's anyway
Eef
Eef, You may be correct. We constructed 2 jetties, one on each side of the river, and I know for a fact that one of the cranes was an American. Maybe it was the crane on the opposite river bank, but I don't have any pics of it. Tony
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JHart wrote:The yellow crawler on the trestle looks like a Bucyrus (B-E or R-B) machine. It could be an RB crane. I've looked at the original high-res scans for any detail on the ballast blocks but there's nothing much to see. Tony
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The 2 black cranes were the support cranes for the bored concrete piling work. The smaller crane is an NCK C41 Andes. I think the larger crane is an NCK Eiger.
Tony
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