by admin | Nov 1, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News
This startling sight shows one of the largest cranes in Britain at the time, all 200 tons of it, on Glasgow’s Buchanan Street hoisting an escalator into position at a major shop refit at McDonald’s Wylie and Lochhead. Press reports of the time tell of the...
by admin | Oct 31, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Equipment Rental News
Santa is back at Manchester town hall – after being hoisted up by a John Sutch Cranes Mobile All Terrain. In a matter of minutes, the six-ton St Nicholas – who is affectionately known among Mancunians as Zippy – was lifted from Albert Square onto a...
by admin | Oct 31, 2016 | Manufacturer News, Mining News
Caterpillar is adding the new AD22 Underground Truck to its hard rock mining product line. The 22.0-tonne-payload (24.2-ton-payload) articulated dump truck is the smallest in the Cat® product line, yet it is designed to deliver the productive performance and...
by admin | Oct 31, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos
When Edwin Fendig III realizedthe local Sea Tow company in Geogria did not have the equipment needed to pull a sunken shrimp boat from Brunswick’s East River, the easy part was finding someone who did. All he had to do was get on the phone with the Sea Tow franchise’s...
by admin | Oct 31, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Manufacturer News
In Michigan, Bucks Crane Inc. drops a giant Pumkin weighing 1,200 pounds with a Grove TMS700E telescopic truck crane. The giant pumpkin that sat outside the market all season was lifted high into the air by a the crane, and then dropped to the ground, to the delight...
by admin | Oct 30, 2016 | Ports & Terminals
Gone – possibly for good – are the last of the State Ports Authority’s towering blue-and-white container-ship cranes that, like spindly sentries, stood guard for decades along the harbor at the Columbus Street Terminal. They hadn’t done much...
by admin | Oct 29, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Manufacturer News
Islamabad—World’s 5th largest construction machinery company, Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co. Ltd. (XCMG), formally launched business operations in Pakistan at a serene launching ceremony. The launching ceremony was attended by almost all the major public and...
by admin | Oct 28, 2016 | Manufacturer News
Vojenskè lesy a statky CR (VLS) has recently purchased three wheel loaders PL 195, through Manatech CZ S.r.o., the Palazzani Dealer for Czech Republic. The state-owned forestry Company is based in Prague and it is engaged in forest management, hunting, as well as...
by admin | Oct 28, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Manufacturer News
TOKYO — Hitachi Construction Machinery will downsize its plant in China that manufactures midsize and large hydraulic shovels in order to improve the profitability of the operation. The Hitachi group company Thursday announced plans to close the No. 2 factory at...
by admin | Oct 28, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment Rental News
A 180-ton All Terrain Demag AC 435 mobile crane with a 100-foot of boom supplied by Oldham Crane Service, Inc. towered over Amazon Creek in west Eugene as it swung the latest piece of the $100 million west Eugene EmX project into place. John Oldham, whose family...
