AGL Torrens Island B3 Air Rotor Lift

MAX Cranes was awarded 'Lift of the Year' at the 2019 Crane Industry Council of Australia (CICA) awards night in the Hunter Valley NSW.
The awards, sponsored by Cranes and Lifting reward lifting excellence, and this entry featured a complicated lift during the exchange of air rotors at Torrens Island power station.

[@proletariatbourgeoisie9929]

It's fascinating how the Y Guying system causes the boom to deflect backwards under load, like a lattice crane. When you think about it, it's very similar to a lattice crane at that point because you add gantries and pendants. cool stuff.

[@peterblackmore7560]

Yay - the first LTM 11200 9.1 in Australia! Congratulations Max Crane

[@dietrich-7]

I work with lockwood cranes. I've never seen you lads put this bad boy together before till now.
Worked with you lads in Port Pirie at the smelter. Great lads to work with.

[@dji127]

Awesome video, Very impressive crane and work by the team

[@jamesmeadow4812]

Looking good alan 👍👍👍

[@simonmaney3438]

Thanks for the lift details. Couldn't an 11200 lift 60t with a luffing jib from outside the structure?

[@Tgiles13]

Long story short, crane wouldnt have the capacity for it.. look at the diagram in the video, do a quick calculation on what their radius would be then have a look at the load charts that are freely available online for any crane

[@simonmaney3438]

@@Tgiles13 Sure. I looked at the charts but was curious about luffing jib which I couldn't find. I have no idea what an ATC with jib can handle. Suspect a crawler could manage it but not practical.

[@AlMcpherson79]

@@simonmaney3438 There's two basic types for the 11200 - a fixed fly jib which is basically just a lattice length extension, but can be offset up to 40 degrees with twin hydraulic luffing rams, then there's the luffing fly jib which has two a-frames with pendant bars running tip to a-frame of the fly jib with, depending on lengths, intermediate pendant connections to maintain straightness of the boom, and the second a-frame then connected to a hoist-rope sheave unit, which provides rope-based luffing of the luffing jib. The luffing fly jib has to be "piked" in assembly/disassembly to get it flat on the ground - that is, from assembly, the main boom is luffed up to eighty degrees whilst allowing the luffing system to be taught but, as the boom rises, the tip of the fly jib remains on the ground via a wheeled dolly unit that comes so far back until the crane can handle the weight of the fly jib I personally don't know the "fly jib tip departs the ground" angle for the main boom.

[@simonmaney3438]

@@AlMcpherson79 Thanks for the detailed reply.

[@sergiowestlopez]

Wow. Ya