So i figure there are quite a few aussies on this forum so we should have our own general topic.

Ive been told by one of the sarens bosses that there is a twin boom crane coming to west aus for the barrow island project.
Its going to be put on a massive barge to lift in the caisson's that leightons are making in henderson for new $900m lng jetty they are making on barrow island.
They are gonna weigh around 1000t in hearing,maybe a 8800 twin?

yea i dunno,its a joint venture with leighton and siapem and just looking at their page,they have some serious gear!

http://www.saipem.it/site/Home/Activities/artCatVessels.1964.1.500.5.1.html

Lainy i see sarens have a yard at Yatala .Queensland
They also have 2 cranes at Manitowoc's yard Wacol as well.

And i have heard Mammoet have a heap of cranes coming in to the land downunder



Jason

Mammoet will have lots of cranes on pluto and pluto 2 and barrow island

Thousands of low-skilled construction workers on the massive Gorgon LNG project will each earn about $150,000 a year under a deal which will set a new WA wages benchmark.

Construction union boss Kevin Reynolds said Gorgon tradesmen would become the industry's highest-earning workers in WA and would be on par with the best paid in Australia.

Calculations by the Master Builders Association show the union agreement with contractor Thiess would deliver wages of nearly $3000 a week, including allowances, to semi-skilled employees such as concrete workers and labourers.

Separate calculations by the Australian Mines and Metals Association show qualified tradesmen such as excavators would get at least $160,000 annually.

The Thiess agreement signed last month will cover thousands of workers building the accommodation village on Barrow Island off the Pilbara coast. The Chevron project's total workforce will swell to up to 10,000 during peak construction of the $43 billion gas plant.

Mr Reynolds, secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, said: "I think it's probably equal to any of the best paying construction jobs in Australia and is the most lucrative in WA.

"They are getting the big money because they will be working very long hours in some of the harshest conditions in the world."

MBA industrial spokesman Kim Richardson, who calculated the $150,000 salary based on an expected 70-hour week, said the deal would have a serious impact on commercial and residential construction.

Mr Richardson said metropolitan employers would be unable to match the wages paid by mining and resources contractors.

This would drain the city of tradesmen, forcing a blow-out in local building times and putting pressure on prices.

AMMA spokesman Geoff Bull said the project offered slightly higher remuneration through better site allowances and leave arrangements compared with other resource projects because of its remoteness and quarantine requirements.

Under the Thiess agreement, employees would get a nine-day break every 26 days, as well as four to five weeks of annual leave.

The agreement, also signed by the Australian Workers Union, includes an arrangement called "Special Gorgon Leave" which provides an extra 34 hours paid leave, or 3½ days, for every 26 days that is worked without industrial action or other disruptions.

The deal provides superannuation in addition to the salary.

Mr Reynolds said Gorgon would replace Pluto and Cape Preston as the best-paying jobs in WA.

Mining giant Woodside recently claimed Pluto LNG project workers earned at least $140,000 annually, though several tradesmen disputed this with claims of lower pay.

That project has been plagued by a dispute over "motelling", under which workers are given a different accommodation unit each work cycle instead of having a permanent unit.

GC1 may know the answer to this. Lets see if he chimes in.

Geltlemen as far as I know Trans-lift (Universal Cranes) is no-longer part of the Sarens group. But i would love to see some of the large Sarens and Mammoet Equipment comeover to the East Coast for a little while.
I live down the hill from the Singleton, Boom Logistics yard and yesterday they had a LTM 1250 with Luffer set up but they were folding her up and if i wasn't at work i wouldve got some decent pics, when i spotted it i was hoping it was a new LTM1350 but no luck. Up there they also have and old Demag 300t (AC900) i think.
A friend of mine was working on the Bulga Coal Dragline shutdown/tub replacement and got to work with the Boom LTM 1400.
Love to see a LTM11200 over here to.

I cant see why you guys need cranes

being upside down ...i figure chains and binders would be all you need ///

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Lima 70T,

Didn't you guy just get power last week..

Main Land Joke... hehe

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GC1,

Think they would have worked out Power Quicker having Two Heads an all


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