The man, who was a carpenter's helper, was killed on Jan. 30, 2006, while assisting the crane operator in removing pins that secured the lattice boom's 40-foot center section to the base boom section.

To reach the required hub height of 538 feet the contractor used a Terex Superlift 3800 lattice boom crawler crane equipped with a full Boom Booster configuration, including a Flex Frame and Split ...

National Crane’s NBT45 truck-mounted crane can reach up to 142 feet with its five-section boom. When equipped with a 55-foot boom extension, the combination provides a lifting tip height of 204 feet ...

The new Link-Belt RTC-80130 Series II 130-ton rough-terrain crane is the largest rough-terrain Link-Belt has ever produced, it says. The new crane uses a five-section, 162-foot formed boom that is ...

Side view shows the three interconnected boom sections of the fully assembled and operational “proof-of-concept” CompoTech/RTI carbon fiber composite telescopic crane. Photo Credit, all images: ...

The Scharrel community wind farm at Saterland’s Ostermoor bog in Germany needed to install wind turbines that reach a hub height of almost 489 feet – the largest models of the E-101 series. For the ...

New tower crane concepts for wind turbine installation. Part one of an epic series written by ICST special correspondent and global tower crane authority Heinz-Gert Kessel At the beginning of tower ...

The market for lattice-boom crawler cranes is divided into to sections, according one industry expert. The market for lattice-boom crawler cranes is divided into two sections, according to Keith ...