Really enjoyed those pics Gaz.

Excellent pictures again Gaz. I can only imagine what it felt like to be there on site with both of those big cranes!

Thanks again,

Paul R

Been a while since i've posted in this topic, reason being is i was using my photobucket limit up too quickly so only going to post some of my better jobs. This one was not too bad, de-rigging our CC2800 at Farringdon station with a LTM1500, reason the 500 was used is the crawler was down a hole and it all had to be done from the road above.

Tool for the job, LTM1500 on 105t of ballast and operating on half riggers.


47m main boom. No superlift as it would hit the building behind.




















Job well done, CC2800 has got a quiet few months now before its off on another long term hire.

Enjoy
Gaz

Excellent Gaz! I was starting to wonder when we'd see some more pics and these are really very good indeed.

Paul R

Todays job was another 1st for me, undressing the 500 so to speak. Had to remove the superlift, take out the 4 sections of the 84m boom and replace it with the 50m boom.





Its quite difficult for me to take some good shots of the action as obviously I have to drive the crane while to good stuff it happening.


50m section came from up north, as for north as our friends in Scotland


To remove the boom tele out section 3 with 4,5 & 6 in it, total weight of 22t


Then tele section 2 out 46% and release the tele ram and retract it back into the boom. then release the main pin once my crane had the full weight of the sections.


then just put the 1 section in to replace the 4 that have been removed.


84m boom and superlift stored in the corner of our yard till monday, when I get to put it back together.


Thanks for looking

Gaz

Its going into Farringdon station where it was rigged to do the crawler last weekend, because of the building behind the superlift cannot be used and it did not have the duties on the 84m boom so hey presto 50m boom it is.

My mate just sent me this picture, a rare action shot of me actually lifting, i'm not always behind the camera you know!



Gaz

Ainscough owns James Jack (the green section) strange to see a green section going in though.... thats gotta look funny from a distance

Very interesting!

Ian

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Hey gaz,

You wernt up at Kings Mill hospital in Mansfield, Notts last thurs or fri were you? There was a crane like yours taking the cabins down from the new build hospital.

Joe

Sorry not looked at this thread for a while, so many questions.

Joe, no mate been a while since i've got that for north.

Sam, not yet mate, it went away friday night and will not be back till tuesday when i've got to swop the booms again.

Sabian_2, We have very high axle loads here in the uk with no restrictions at all on axle spacing allowing the heavy machines to run with the superlifts and long boom on board. Means also the smaller machines run with most or all of there counterweight. As you say it is quite handy at the end of the day when you just drop the weights on the deck and put the boom in the rest and your alway home . The 500 runs at a road weights of about 130t, the superlift weights 13.3t and the 4 boom sections 22t, the 1 section that was put back in was 7.5t.

Dewoc, It does not look funny while its tele'd in....a lot of companies have different coloured boom head, in fact if you ignored the sign writing it looks a bit like a william whytes 500. When it is tele'd out i'm sure it would be a different story.

Paul, If we keep shouting i'm sure we can get a LTM1500 eventually....hopefully YYC will take up the slack....as for the CC/TC2800 I'll keep dreaming.

Gaz