Something you don't see every day.

[Tunatyme]

I was just on a Job where this crane was being used. You want to talk about HUGE. Its hard to think that you have to drive it to swing the boom, and thats with 1.6 million pound lift 100' in the air.

[Fishwagon]

My Stepfather was a salesman for Williams Crane. He says the guy that first came up with the idea of the double boom (or whatever it is) was an operator, and tractor trailer driver. He kept going to different owners with the idea, but no one wanted to back him. Somehow he got the financial backing, and started his own company producing them. They were revolutionary in the nineties, and the guy made an absolute fortune. He actually rented the cranes to the same companies where the owners didnt believe in his idea!!! He was the only one making them for a while, so when someone needed something huge lifted, they had to come to him. He even sent a picture of his crane lifting the largest model of another crane off the ground, to the owner of the company (I dunno which one), who had sent him away before...Pretty funny stuff.

[Sweet Caroline]

I am still on this job. That crane is a beast. I was around when they had a smaller one in Marcus Hook.

[BobEver]

I am still on this job....

Where is this?

Thanks.

[Tunatyme]

Its in Philadelphia PA

[Sweet Caroline]

Nothing to see now, that rig is pretty much all cleaned up. This crane takes 3-4 weeks just to put together. The manufacture of the crane is Lampson, http://www.lampsoncrane.com/Web%202003.swf. Just look at the stats in the upper left hand corner of the first picture. The boom on this crane was large enoungh to drive a tractor trailer through it.

[algdog]

I wouldn't want to be sitting in one of those porta jons