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very lucky, awesome machine! wasnt this monsters first job to finish the milwaukee brewers stadium after Big Blue went down? that was the only other place i remember seeing this beast at.
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Two counter weight wagons ! That's amazing. TFS
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good shots, never seen one with a gantry like that before.
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cranedude07 wrote:very lucky, awesome machine!
wasnt this monsters first job to finish the milwaukee brewers stadium after Big Blue went down? that was the only other place i remember seeing this beast at. First job, I'm not sure. But it definitely picked up the slack. I know for a while this crane had a few record breaking lifts.  Thank you SO much for these pictures, Gaz! The 126 is my all time favorite crane, and there aren't too many pics of the beast around. I didn't know the next time there would be a sighting outside of kazakhstan. I know she was brought into Scheidam a few months back for some maintenance, but it sounds like everything is back and working!
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This crane worked on several jobs prior to coming accross the pond. The first project in the USA was at the Clark Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas AND then onto the Miller Field project to finish the heavy lifts after the tragic accident. A lift at the Clark Refinery was a record lift for a single body crawler crane at that time.
And to this day, crane 500 still serves the industry quite well - a tribute to the engineering and Demag.
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heavilift wrote:. A lift at the Clark Refinery was a record lift for a single body crawler crane at that time.
That's what I thought. A little over 1300 tons if I remember correctly.
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Thanks for sharing Gaz, that is a simple huge machine...
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Great pictures of a not very commonly seen crane, sure is different with that double ballast wagon like that
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Ekki matts stacked 3 high, Thats some base pad! Thanks for uploading Gaz. The cab is interesting, Is it side-on to the crane?
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heavilift wrote:
And to this day, crane 500 still serves the industry quite well - a tribute to the engineering and Demag.
Indeed - great post. I always enjoy seeing pics of the old dinosaurs...  http://forums.dhsdiecast.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=112486
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And I thought a CC 8800 was big, both in model (looks like not the same scale next to my LR 1300) and for real, I've been standing next to one... Amazing impressive crane this CC 12600. Thanks for the pictures, Gaz! 
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I'm lucky enough to see the top of this crane from my house for the last few months and have taken a run down to the site to take a few photos for members of MTW who have an interest in cranes. My main interest is trucks and I'm embarrassed to say I had to ask the type of crane it was but a few members put me right. Here are a few photos from edge if the yard   Over the last couple of weeks it has grown a little.  And my view from the house 
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 Nice picture of the whole crane, I managed to get a data sheet of the internet for it and on a 78m main boom, with maximum ballast it'll do 1600t @ 22m, to put that in perspective the CC8800 can do 1600t @ 10m. Gaz
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Gaz wrote:on a 78m main boom, with maximum ballast it'll do 1600t @ 22m, to put that in perspective the CC8800 can do 1600t @ 10m.
2 ballastwagons instead of 1, means twice the load moment
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So tempted to go and see this - only 30 mins in the car from where I live, and what a rare opportunity.
This is exactly where the ALE CC8800 was in 2011, right?
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If there was a crane like this 30 minutes away mate if be there every spare second I had!
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LatticeCraneMan wrote:Cool pics always liked the unique tall tailmast never recalled seeing on another large crane even the cc12000 often wondered why they went that design and retired it ? Nice to see her turn up again !
TFS
Chet I don't think it's been used on another Demag, but the LR13000 has a very similar mast  Neither of these cranes can operate without a rear derrick, unlike the CC8800
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Close but meant like the steel box structure of the 126 !
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