We need a crane thread ....... so here it is

[V8Druid]

and to start it off .. this is an interesting story

" Saving a bit of crane history "

Saving a bit of crane history

UK-based Crowland Cranes has completed and delivered a fully restored six tonne Hydrocon Highlander mobile lattice boom crane

vertikal.net

Hydrocon Highlander 6t

my first telescopic seat was a Hydrocon Clansman 15t, for a local engineering co. and my first truck mount tele. that I owned, was a Hydrocon Huntsman 15t (paper pix some where) ... the Clansman had an extra 20ft of manually positioned stick .. the Huntsman was a full tele. 60 footer ... both great machines and'd lift like ****

my first truck mounted was a 'strut jibbed' 10t Coles Victor, 6x4, with an AEC lump that never failed, 5sp Dai Brown box, with a PTO driven DC generator which ran the electric motors that powered all the crane functions ... another great lifter - 6t FOW and 10 on jacks ... could carry 105ft of jib and was a work of art assembling it ... again .. paper pix somewhere.

 

[Lancs Lad]

and to start it off .. this is an interesting story

" Saving a bit of crane history "

Saving a bit of crane history

UK-based Crowland Cranes has completed and delivered a fully restored six tonne Hydrocon Highlander mobile lattice boom crane

vertikal.net

Hydrocon Highlander 6t
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my first telescopic seat was a Hydrocon Clansman 15t, for a local engineering co. and my first truck mount tele. that I owned, was a Hydrocon Huntsman 15t (paper pix some where) ... the Clansman had an extra 20ft of manually positioned stick .. the Huntsman was a full tele. 60 footer ... both great machines and'd lift like ****

my first truck mounted was a 'strut jibbed' 10t Coles Victor, 6x4, with an AEC lump that never failed, 5sp Dai Brown box, with a PTO driven DC generator which ran the electric motors that powered all the crane functions ... another great lifter - 6t FOW and 10 on jacks ... could carry 105ft of jib and was a work of art assembling it ... again .. paper pix somewhere.

Credit for restoring that. Let's see it set up though

 

[Conor]

Can’t say I’ve ever been all that interested in cranes for whatever reason. Have had the chance over the years to work with/alongside some impressive bits of kit. Here’s a few big crawlers I’ve come across.

 

[Lancs Lad]

Looks the makings of a good thread. For me I only done a bit of slinging. It's the silence when your a long way out and the load glides up into the air that's cool remember helping some mates on a roof job years ago with a big emsleys 300t. Wish I had pics. Did a whole steel roof in one lift purlins the lot. First time they'd done it they reckoned. Had a monster spreader bar with block and tackle at each end. Aussie lads came over to run the job. Dropped onto the studs perfectly. Awesome to watch

 

[maz]

Does this count? Its closest thing I’ve had to a crane

 

[V8Druid]

Credit for restoring that. Let's see it set up though

don't see any pendant ropes in the sections though ... they're there with it when it's in the 'as found' state

 

[V8Druid]

Does this count? Its closest thing I’ve had to a crane

it's a crane .. a swing jib crane and lifts on a rope and winch

 

[V8Druid]

Looks the makings of a good thread. For me I only done a bit of slinging. It's the silence when your a long way out and the load glides up into the air that's cool remember helping some mates on a roof job years ago with a big emsleys 300t. Wish I had pics. Did a whole steel roof in one lift purlins the lot. First time they'd done it they reckoned. Had a monster spreader bar with block and tackle at each end. Aussie lads came over to run the job. Dropped onto the studs perfectly. Awesome to watch

I've lifted a few complete roofs onto houses once, built on the floor, beside the houses ... IIRC was a Barrat site ... new idea for them back in the late 80,s/early 90,s can't recall which .. used a TMS300 Grove, with 104ft of stick ..... and also did that forecourt canopy I put up a while ago

 

[Vinpetrol]

I worked on a duck on hire to Green Murphys mid 80s. They used a lot of mobile cranes as they did a lot of tunneling work . I worked with an old Irishboy who was driving a 22RB . He was a legend . He could tell stories that good I didn’t care wether they were true or not . Anyway he gave me a shot of the crane and showed me how it worked . It had a wooden cab . I can’t be certain but I think the engine was a big Dorman. I Wish I’d took more pictures back then.

 

[V8Druid]

I worked on a duck on hire to Green Murphys mid 80s. They used a lot of mobile cranes as they did a lot of tunneling work . I worked with an old Irishboy who was driving a 22RB . He was a legend . He could tell stories that good I didn’t care wether they were true or not . Anyway he gave me a shot of the crane and showed me how it worked . It had a wooden cab . I can’t be certain but I think the engine was a big Dorman. I Wish I’d took more pictures back then.

10RB was my first seat at 14 ... 3 lung Dorman - handle start ... motor was as tall as me .... IIRC was a 1932 m/c 6 pane front window (no glass) and a saddle ... Mc. No. ??107 was a lovely old thing - big (to me then) levers and pedals .. a right handful ..... would love to find it if its not been cut up

 

[Stroppymonkey]

I've lifted a few complete roofs onto houses once, built on the floor, beside the houses ... IIRC was a Barrat site ... new idea for them back in the late 80,s/early 90,s can't recall which .. used a TMS300 Grove, with 104ft of stick ..... and also did that forecourt canopy I put up a while ago

I was working on a westbury site in Okehampton in 2001/2002 and they were putting up the roofs whole, first time I’d ever seen it done.

 

[Conor]

Here’s a strange one I came across a Belarusian Motaz crane carrier which is based on a a scraper with a Tadano crane in the back. Doesn’t look to have done much work recently.

 

[V8Druid]

Here’s a strange one I came across a Belarusian Motaz crane carrier which is based on a a scraper with a Tadano crane in the back. Doesn’t look to have done much work recently.

now that is an unusual one Conor .... never seen one like that before
have seen 'em 'artic.' mounted, but that's a whole different level of RT machine

 

[6feetdown]

a few years ago I had to bolt the handrails on once we positioned the tanks

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Might be tiny but here is mine. 2006 Fassi on a 2018 IforLM105 Will lift 155kg at full 7m at 360circle. If I tweak the valves and weight the trailer then will lift about 300kg at full reach out the back. We use it for steel tanks which weigh 550-600kg and it will put them out over the end of the stabilisers or a bit further over the back if you weight the tow bar or trailer bed. Tows well and will carry about 1500kg on the bed.

 

[CPS]

Might be tiny but here is mine. 2006 Fassi on a 2018 IforLM105 Will lift 155kg at full 7m at 360circle. If I tweak the valves and weight the trailer then will lift about 300kg at full reach out the back. We use it for steel tanks which weigh 550-600kg and it will put them out over the end of the stabilisers or a bit further over the back if you weight the tow bar or trailer bed. Tows well and will carry about 1500kg on the bed.
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I would have loved something like that when I was working on the heavier machinery

 

[Lynchy]

Couple different rail mounted cranes

 

[Bob]

We had a Hydrocon similar to that at Wyatts in the hanger and what I remembered it was very easly to drive we all use to hop on it to lift parts off scapers dozers etc,not like the crawler cranes I have been on

 

[V8Druid]

View attachment 37207a few years ago I had to bolt the handrails on once we positioned the tanks

Malcolm Davies - Carmarthen ... he's grown in some order in the last 20 years ... got some impressive kit now .... could tell you a few stories about 'our Malc'

 

[Giles]

I was picking some stuff up from the yard next to this on sheepsbridge industrial estate Chesterfield