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Stroppymonkey
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Fair beast for 1400mm width.
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craig
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Would that of been the same, that became Grayston White and Sparrow?Russ has grown up in the crane game and at one time ran them up to 200 tonners .. sold his order book/customer contact list to Gordon Sparrow after their two year moratorium expired, after they'd sold out two years previously. He too had a two year 'hiatus' imposed and he sold all but a few of his machines, which he had out the day the two years was up... he thought he could make a spider pay and tried for nigh on a year, but the demand just wasn't there
The took over a firm with a local branch, Scott Greenham.
craig
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Graystons, J D Whites and Sparrows amalgamated/took each other over to form that group and swallowed a few smaller outfits along the way - pretty sure Greenhams were amongst them, later rebranded as GWS with new blue livery - didn't last long in that incarnation and got swallowed up again, by from memory Ainscough. Gordon Sparrow jnr. has operated several fleets along the way .. he too got swallowed with a two or three year moratorium on going again .. started again and bought Russ in one of the re-starts ... still operating AFAIK
can't recall what happened to Hewdens after they became Hewden Stuart, but operated successfully for several years before getting swallowed by a bigger group, after ending up in the tish financially -- seem to recall Acrow owning them at one time before offloading them, when it hit the fan in '08 .... crane game has always been pretty nepotistic
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6feetdown
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By what I was told a few years ago hewden on the tool hire at least were shafted by a 'fast' company. I was told an ex fast director went to work for them invested 1.5 mill in lighting (a lot at the time) nobody could understand why at the time, then same director went back to the fast companyGraystons, J D Whites and Sparrows amalgamated/took each other over to form that group and swallowed a few smaller outfits along the way - pretty sure Greenhams were amongst them, later rebranded as GWS with new blue livery - didn't last long in that incarnation and got swallowed up again, by from memory Ainscough. Gordon Sparrow jnr. has operated several fleets along the way .. he too got swallowed with a two or three year moratorium on going again .. started again and bought Russ in one of the re-starts ... still operating AFAIK
can't recall what happened to Hewdens after they became Hewden Stuart, but operated successfully for several years before getting swallowed by a bigger group, after ending up in the tish financially -- seem to recall Acrow owning them at one time before offloading them, when it hit the fan in '08 .... crane game has always been pretty nepotistic
Bucket on wheels
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It seems they have picked up a chunk more of the old collapsed bridge pillar
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
just had a quick look and it's already slewed round out of sight
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Stroppymonkey
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Watch this reel
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
fair play ...... whole lot of luck and a good bit of judgement .. presumably that's on a boat
Bucket on wheels
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Here is a machine in the process of breaking up the concrete lump, the remains of the bridge pillar that overturned and that they hoisted up from the river the day before
Bucket on wheels
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There is something going on 
concrete pump truck has arrived
and the scaffold house is ready to be covered with tarpaulin
so that they can fix the old iron rivet built Bridges
unaffected by what King Winter comes up with ⛈🌦🌬❄
concrete pump truck has arrived
and the scaffold house is ready to be covered with tarpaulin
so that they can fix the old iron rivet built Bridges
unaffected by what King Winter comes up with ⛈🌦🌬❄
Lancs Lad
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Impressive stuff them lads. Fair cracked on.There is something going on
concrete pump truck has arrived
and the scaffold house is ready to be covered with tarpaulin
so that they can fix the old iron rivet built Bridges
unaffected by what King Winter comes up with ⛈🌦🌬❄
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Imagine that over here...still be setting site cabins up
Bucket on wheels
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The casting has started
and the tent grows
and the tent grows
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
see they've built a wall between the crane and where they were breaking up the old bridge pier Frank
started on the roof too
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
fair play, they're cracking on sheeting that
Bucket on wheels
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Shrapnel protection for crew and the crane I would assume
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
all the one side wall and best part of half the roof clad ..... must be on bonus
Quattromike
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it'll be too cold to work slowly
Bucket on wheels
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