Its fun when running a dragline and you are at the edge of your limits and you get the bucket up and out of the cut and swinging and feel it get lite in the behind then set back down over the corner. Makes ya ease up on that next bucket a little, reminds you your getting a little greedy with those buckets lol
Do you have any experience/insight on operating crawler cranes on a barge? What are the similarities and differences with cranes on land, etc..? Given the cranes arriving at the Key Bridge I think it would be a very cool video to do right about now. Thanks for your great information!!
Unfortunately no. Or maybe fortunately no, I've never ran on a barge. I do know that those ops can be pretty complicated. I've read some barge charts for the Manitowocs that I've run and I do know they often have auto ballasting on most barges. The cranes do have to be chained down with enough chains to hold the capacity of the crane and also have brackets that hold the crane in place. The next time I get down to the gulf I'll see if I can make a video. Thanks.
Nice practical explanation of the stability theory.
Thank you for the insight.
Love all this information!!! Thank you.
Its fun when running a dragline and you are at the edge of your limits and you get the bucket up and out of the cut and swinging and feel it get lite in the behind then set back down over the corner. Makes ya ease up on that next bucket a little, reminds you your getting a little greedy with those buckets lol
Do you have any experience/insight on operating crawler cranes on a barge? What are the similarities and differences with cranes on land, etc..? Given the cranes arriving at the Key Bridge I think it would be a very cool video to do right about now. Thanks for your great information!!
Unfortunately no. Or maybe fortunately no, I've never ran on a barge. I do know that those ops can be pretty complicated. I've read some barge charts for the Manitowocs that I've run and I do know they often have auto ballasting on most barges. The cranes do have to be chained down with enough chains to hold the capacity of the crane and also have brackets that hold the crane in place. The next time I get down to the gulf I'll see if I can make a video. Thanks.