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High-profile Cranes in the Port of Bremerhaven. There are two common types of container handling gantry crane: high profile, where the boom is hinged at the waterside of the crane structure and lifted in the air to clear the ships for navigation, and low profile, where the boom is shuttled toward and over the ship to allow the trolley to load and discharge containers.
A jib or jib arm is the horizontal or near-horizontal beam used in many types of crane to support the load clear of the main support. [1] [2] An archaic spelling is gib. [3] Usually jib arms are attached to a vertical mast or tower or sometimes to an inclined boom.
Irving Equipment is a member of the Crane Rental Association of Canada [3] as one of the many companies involved with its formation, [4] with the 2008–2009 Chairman being Irving Equipment's Roger Cyr. Kyle Jardine of Irving Equipment currently sits on the 2010–2011 CRAC Board of Directors.
Not the first crane accident for city, or equipment owner. 08:45, AP. The crane is owned by the New York Crane & Equipment Corp., one of the city’s most widely used crane providers, officials said.
Taisun, the world's strongest gantry crane, at Yantai Raffles Shipyard, Yantai, China. Full gantry cranes (where the load remains beneath the gantry structure, supported from a beam) are well suited to lifting massive objects such as ships' engines, as the entire structure can resist the torque created by the load, and counterweights are generally not required.
A telescopic mobile crane with truss luffing jib. A telescopic crane has a boom that consists of a number of tubes fitted one inside the other. A hydraulic cylinder or other powered mechanism extends or retracts the tubes to increase or decrease the total length of the boom. These types of booms are often used for short term construction ...
At today’s crane fire and collapse at 550 Tenth Avenue, the #FDNY Command Tactical Unit operated drones to provide crucial real-time data that helped direct fire operations. The CTU used their ...
A crane on top of a high-rise building fell to the ground as a 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked the Philippines on Friday, 17 November. This video shows the construction equipment collapsing on top ...