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Gaz - Congrats on the family addition.
How many LTM1750's do Ainscough have?
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Gaz wrote:seems like ages since i posted but hope these make up for it a little.
Yes they do  Never enough LG 1550 pics. BTW is this the ex Weldex crane from 2009, the third to last ever built?
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Gaz,
Do you know if ainscough are sending the carnage for a windfarm near ashbourne in Derbyshire?
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Hi Gaz,
Great set of photos and doubtless your daughter is keeping you busy also!
Paul R
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Of all the crane hire companies in the world, this IS the best looking fleet going. Great shots inside the Liebherr boom, after being inside a Grove GMK-6275 for comparison, Liebherr IS a BETTER design! Thanks for all the great images! Ap40
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Great pics Gaz, thanks for sharing them 
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Tim Clamp wrote:Gaz - Congrats on the family addition.
How many LTM1750's do Ainscough have? Only one for now as far as I know. Victor Pay wrote:Yes they do Never enough LG 1550 pics. BTW is this the ex Weldex crane from 2009, the third to last ever built? Yes I believe it is. Who had the last one? Paul R
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I thought the Weldex unit was the very last one.
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No, after the Weldex unit came one for KR Wind and the last one was for Kronschnabel & Franke.
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Lets bring this thread out off the archives and revive it a little. I know i have not posted or really played a part in the forum for a long while but truth being told I was told to stop by a member of our management team, hence the reason the Ainscough signature at the bottom of my profile was removed, i was doing no harm but someone got above there station I think so anyway this person has now left the company so i figured I can continue. I will however point out that everything i put up on here is my opinion and does not represent Ainscough in anyway. Were have i been the past 9-10 months, well about everywhere. As you can imagine the birth of my daughter has had a massive impact on the way i go about things, i tend to actually have time off now cos going home to her is what I love the most. I bought a house with my girlfriend around christmas and moved us all in, as well as my little girl I have inherited Sarah's (my girlfriend) other daughter, a step daughter so to speak. She's 5 so between Sarah, a 1 year old and a 5 year old i'm pretty well much overwhelmed with love! Anyway enough about the family. Cranes. I eventually got my own machine earlier in the year, a LTM1500 8.1 ran on that for about 3 months when I got the news James Jacks LTM1750 was coming down from scotland to be based in Ainscough heavy cranes yard in Leyland, I put my name down to do on it and surely enough i succeeded and have never been happier. The LTM1750 is cracking crane, I'm busy and get a bit of variety of work, not as much as the 5's but enough to keep me happy. As you can imagine though a lot of my work is with wind farms at which the crane excels at...between my time with the LG1550 and my currant machine i've been throwing turbines up by the dozen! So anyway, here is a mass amount of pictures, LTM1750, what I have come to call the yellow machine.    A few of the 500 I went on for a short while.         Can get quite tight for space putting these things together!  And what happens when the carrier engine blows up!!!! you use the crane to get it out.....carring out its own heart transplant  Quite a lump  LG1550 My last lift with the LG1550 before I went on my own machine.  This was a great job, removing a blade from a 7MW turbine prototype at Methil, 63m radius and 100m up, 70m + 77m.  LG really does make the 5's look small!  If you like big cranes Methil was the place to be at the beginning of 2014  And finally, a few pictures of what I now call the Green machine, My LTM1750         The 2 girls 1st time in a crane, my 1 year old Eira and step daughter Arwen. future crane drivers, who knows?!  I do like going up in a basket to enjoy the view.  Another turbine up!  For those who remember me of old this LTM1150 is the very crane I picked up new back in 2009, It was my rigging crane.  The 'Green machine'  Well that will do for now, thanks for looking. Gaz
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Good job you are back at the dark side Gaz….and a pox on that tosser who ratted on you, (I hope his balls backpeddle up his arse and blow his head off).
Very happy to see things are well with you and the larger family(if you thought you paid out for models just wait til those girls get older, I have two grown up girls(and a boy) and they cost…I just had one get married..effen ouch, (but they are also fantastic and do look after their old man well)…so I perfectly understand where you are…it's nice isn't it?
Love that JJ crane also…surprised one of their smaller ones hasn't popped up as a model over the years. The pics were a great start to the day also.
Cheers
Gaz from Down under.
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Great to see you back on the forum Gaz and congrats on the family and move.
Some cracking pictures there and I hope I get to see a 1750 one of these days. I saw the Schot 1750 working on a windfarm off the A1 a while back but never had the time to stop. Looked magnificent though!
All the best,
Paul R
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Welcome back stranger, fantastic set of photos to start with hope you can keep it up. Glad to see you have got on the 1750 what a machine, saw it at Vertical days a couple of years ago all brand new and shiny. Great news about the family it's amazing how they concentrate the mind and like Gaz from down under says they cost more and more each year, but us Dads dont mind as they are our little girls always  Just wait till they ask you for some Louboutin shoes at £500 a pair  Keep safe all the best Steve.
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is the james jack rig your in leased or bare rented to ainscough? like maybe they didnt have the work for it and your outfit did so they can still make some money with it? just curious
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Gaz wrote:LG1550 This was a great job, removing a blade from a 7MW turbine prototype at Methil, 63m radius and 100m up, 70m + 77m. LG really does make the 5's look small! Impressive set up for an LG 1550, that you don't see very often Only a little short of the max with SDWB, 77+84
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WELCOME BACK, MISSED YOUR EXCELLENT PICS
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DumpsterToy wrote:WELCOME BACK, MISSED YOUR EXCELLENT PICS Ditto... 
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Awesome Gaz, Very Jealous of you and your job  And I am glad for you and your family. All the best.
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