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  2. VB-10,000 (ship) - Wikipedia

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    VB-10,000 is a heavy-lift twin-gantry catamaran consisting of two truss space frames atop two barges. The design was derived from Versabar's earlier VB-4000 (aka Bottom Feeder ), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which was developed to clear debris from toppled oil drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico .

  3. Irving Equipment - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Gantry crane - Wikipedia

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    Side-view of Super-PostPanamax portainer crane at the APM Terminal in the Port of Rotterdam. A gantry crane is a crane built atop a gantry, which is a structure used to straddle an object or workspace. They can range from enormous "full" gantry cranes, capable of lifting some of the heaviest loads in the world, to small shop cranes, used for ...

  5. Jib (crane) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. New York City crane collapse – live: 12 injured after 16 ...

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    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 ...

  7. Crane (machine) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane - Wikipedia

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    Originally a Sikorsky Aircraft product, the type certificate and manufacturing rights were purchased from them by Erickson Air-Crane in 1992. Since that time, Erickson Air-Crane has become the manufacturer and world's largest operator of S-64 Aircranes and has made over 1,350 changes to the airframe, instrumentation, and payload capabilities of the helicopter.

  9. Mobile crane - Wikipedia

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    In 1959 crane expert R.H.Neal, hydraulics specialist F.Taylor, and design director Bob Lester, integrated all three and modernized cranes. The Coles Hydra Speedcrane appeared in 1962, further modified with the 10-ton fully telescopic hydraulic boom in 1966, followed in 1968 by the 30-ton "Husky" military versions with four-wheel drive .