One Heckuva Crane!

[BravoXray]

I like the Liebherr video of a crane picking up a crane, picking up a crane, picking up a crane, about 5 cranes. Thats a lot of engineering.

I saw that video and a lot of others with BIG Liebherr cranes. Yeah, Liebherr makes some big ones.

 

[tallyho8]

Watching the huge cranes lifting these massive sections of bridge up into place over the Mississippi river was amazing.

 

[TheMan419]

They used one like the one on the right side of the picture a couple of years ago when they set the prefab concrete bridge beams for the overpass on the new bypass in Goshen. The beams were 165 feet long and weighed about 114 tons. The crane had the same wings on the boom and was a 250 ton Liebherr. There was a Grove that handled one end of the beams and the Liebherr handled the other end.

They are rebuilding a bridge on US20/31 in South Bend near my house. I'll have to grab some crane pictures next time I am over that way. There is one pretty big one there, but does not have the wings.

 

[blee03]

I was looking for something entirely different and stumbled on this picture:

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New $1 million Doty Bridge project on Coalwood Grade completed in Alger County

The new 130-foot bridge over the North Branch of Stutts Creek replaces a temporary bridge in place since 2000 over a former railroad trestle.

www.uppermichiganssource.com

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Snowmobiled over that bridge a few times this past winter!

 

[BravoXray]

SpaceX's Liebherr LR11000 nicknamed "Cranezilla."