I'm seeing evidence that a mobile crane is not necessarily a
telescopic-boom crane. It might be carrying a self-erecting tower crane.
I didn't use the embedded version of this Liebherr MK-88 video because it was click bait. The contents is actually more interesting than the thumbnail. The man in the lower-left corner is the operator that is using a remote control to control the crane.
The next day I came across a reference to "Potains."
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Chas Burger posted
The girlfriend took me to Chicago last weekend ...lots of potains around the city |
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From above picture |
I spotted two cranes in the above picture and they both seem to have the design of self-erecting tower cranes.
Potain was founded in La Clayett, France, in 1928. It is now a subsidiary of Manitowoc that makes tower cranes.
Update:
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Steven Xzin posted
Potain
Good lord at the amount of cable needed
Potain MDT128
Can you just imagine how much that thing sways when the wind picks up.
[If I hadn't already read the above posting, I would not have known that the comment was referring to the tower crane. I'm frustrated that none of the comments indicate where this bridge is being built.] |
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Josh Karras commented on the above posting. |
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John W. Coke posted
[This must be what it looks like when it is "folded up" for transport.] |
Brandon Storie
posted three photos with the comment: "
Whole lotta engineering in these things."
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Brandon Storie posted nine more comments with the comment: "
Pretty nifty, no cab though, all R/C."
8t, can pick 3000lbs at 164ft
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James Wakefield
posted six photos with the comment: "
The Manitowoc S-282. Not the biggest or baddest around but she gets the job done and is in and out quick fast and in a hurry."
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ALL posted
In the past few years, very few cities in America have seen more tower crane construction than Chicago. The current king of the landscape, a Potain MD 485 tower crane, was provided and erected by Central Contractors Service, Inc., a member of the ALL Family of Companies. See the press release below to learn more about this thousand-foot tall crane.
[They used steel rope lengths of 1500', 1850' and 2850'.]
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ALL Erection and Crane Rental posted
An impressive photo capture of 5 tower cranes standing tall above the buildings of downtown Chicago's West Loop; one of the cities fastest-growing neighborhoods. These tower cranes, in addition to a large portion of the many other cranes found throughout downtown Chicago, are supplied by Illinois based Central Contractors Service, a member of the ALL Family of Companies. |
There are some Potain cranes working on the Tappan Zee Bridge.
Video of Grove GTK1100 being set up, doing work such as building a windmill, and coming down.
There is currently (Summer 2017)
a crane erected just a few blocks from where I live.
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