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

Bob

Bob

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2 sections of gull-wing bridge bought in on barge today from Belgium
 

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Bob

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The Demag crane at the Lowestoft gull wing bridge is finished and being dismantled weights off etc
 

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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
how's this for a beast of a machine from a few years back -- this is one crane

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and here's another more recent two part-er
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sadly I have failed to find a pic of either fully rigged

did however find a decent pic of a Coles Victor 10 ton-er ....... my first mobile crane ... was a good old tool and somewhere I have some paper pix of mine
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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Picture above shows 3 high 🤔
but not being carried Stu .... masts don't have enough height to lift the third onto the top of the other two and it's only good for 30t carry capacity
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
gotten to 30 min.s in and have to say I am impressed at the little fella's ingenuity ...
must be E Asia somewhere, where you can pick up all the bits so far used, real cheap and off the shelf, at the local market, from what I've seen of @Gecko 's shopping expeditions :giggle:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
fair play to the lad ..... that was some ingenious build .. think he might want to uprate his lacing cables for the boom, if he's planning on lifting anything heavy and his tailweight rack looked a little under-spec.ed, but on the whole there were some stokes of genius in some of the ways he utilised what he had ... sadly he has no idea of Akerman linkages on the steering, but his MO for it was very clever :love:
a great find Frank
anyone notice the other toys in the background ... presumably previous projects :cool:
 
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