classic crawler cranes lattice boom rope excavators, the most used, versatile and widespread models.

[barracane]

classic crawler cranes lattice boom rope excavators, the most used, versatile and widespread models.
with your permission, I would like to open this discussion on the models and brands of the most popular and versatile crawler cable cranes since they would be the ancestors and grandmothers of today's cranes, excavators, drills, pile drivers and material handling, since due to their versatility they were used both with the hook and block to lift and load considerable loads and weights, both in the construction and demolition sector, and by attaching to the block special accessories and devices such as buckets to set them up for use as an excavator and dredge to dredge waterways, rivers and port areas for maritime work such as pontoons to position rocks and create reefs by applying powerful magnets and magnets to move scrap metal, such as drills and pile drivers by mounting special hammers, other applications I can't think of thanks.

Lorain L790 100 Ton Crawler Crane

La Ruston-Bucyrus 22-RB

LINK-BELT LS-108​

Link Belt LS 78LC​

LINK BELT LS 68

GRU LINK BELT LS78​

LINK-BELT

 

[barracane]

Shield Bantam C-350 Dragline​

better dragline??

american dragline-

399-BC​

Koehring 305 Crawler Dragline Crane​

 

[V8Druid]

bull dog clip on completely wrong in that last pic ..
dead tail out of the pear wedge should be looped back on itself and the U bolt on the final portion of the cable to bite into it

never EVER put the clamp on the dead end of a cable/steel rope -- it'll pull through the clamp --- the U bites into the rope

 

[barracane]

https://www.ropetechnology.com/downloads/brochures/bro_wire-rope-end-connections.pdf

american dragline crane? is better?'

Wrecking Ball?'​

Bucyrus Erie 71-B dragline

Northwest 180D dragline​

 

[Old Operator]

I think Link Belt machines were made in Italy under licence? Pretty sure all the USA makers have ceased to trade apart from Link Belt who still make a 16t hydraulic 360 backhoe. Bucyrus USA still exist as part of Cat but do not build construction sized machines only large walking draglines.
A lot of UK & USA Draglines on this Netherlands Company archive, including Unit - a maker I had never heard of before

haukes

 

[barracane]

alcuni modelli e marchi classici e iconici

Demolizione con palle da demolizione​

palla da demolizione migliore

 

[Old Operator]

These demolition balls or drop balls were very dangerous, particularly when the drag rope was not connected. The ball could come back & hit the jib or even cab of the crane! Thus only old cranes near the end of their lives were used in this way. The idea sort of worked on Victorian brick buildings but much less well on concrete postwar stuff. That said I remember a 19 RB & ball making no headway on some huge chimney bases in the ground. We brought an early Montabert hyd hammer in on a Priestman Beaver Cub, along with a 3C to dig trenches alongside the foundations & handle the broken rubble. Problem solved! Many 'clever alecs' came to laugh & see us fail at it - they had a shock. Would have been the first hammer available locally
The modern way is machines like this high reach - much safer. Says Liebherr as it was in a file with loaders but is a Hitachi, has also a short mass excavation boom

 

[barracane]

SENNEBOGEN 6300