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All terrains for all people
15 December, 2006
100t (110 US ton) all terrain cranes form the backbone of the industry. With at least two more 100 tonners launching at Bauma next year from Grove and Terex-Demag, the class will continue to dominate mobile rental fleets, reports Will North

Doha's do-it-yourself tower crane
14 December, 2006
Gordon Stewart, chairman of the tower cranes committee for Standards Australia, recently travelled to Doha, Qatar, and found an interesting, if alarming, tower crane. He reports what he found

Rise of the rising tower
11 December, 2006
While Grove calls its GTK 1100 telescoping mobile crane concept - whose prototype will be on show at Bauma - a brand new type of crane, it might be more accurate to say it is extending an old idea. As Heinz-Gert Kessel reports, this concept has been used before to bring extra height to conventional cranes operating at their limits

Dressing up for the holidays
04 December, 2006
My wife thinks that I should run a competition for the best holiday crane decorations. And I can understand the appeal: tower cranes are so visible above a construction site, and such plain, stark structures, that the addition of lights or a Christmas tree brightens them up.

Bauer supports Canada drilling
16 November, 2006
Canadian drilling firm NUNA Drilling FALC used purpose-built Bauer drilling rigs to make large-diameter boreholes for the exploration of diamond deposits in the north of Canada.

The floating container crane concept
13 November, 2006
A container crane mounted on a pontoon could double the rate of unloading the largest container ships, according to Jan van Beemen of port engineering consultancy Royal Haskoning and B. A. Pielage from the Delft University of Technology

The numbers game
10 November, 2006
There is a debate going on in the USA about whether those people taking a standardised crane operator certification test should be able to use calculators.

The government's view
24 October, 2006
Miami-Dade county commissioner Audrey Edmonson set up the workgroup six months ago. She speaks to Will Dalrymple about what she thinks is going wrong in construction in the area, and what the government can do about it.

Boom group
24 October, 2006
After a high-profile accident in the city of Miami six months ago, county commissioner Audrey Edmonson set up a crane workgroup from the crane industry to recommend safety improvements, reports Will Dalrymple

Threading steel
23 October, 2006
Strand jacks can offer a flexible way to move the largest of loads, from sections of bridges to entire oil rigs. Although, like winches, strand jacks pull a wire rope to lift, the comparisons end there. William North looks at their uses and examines trends in the market.

$3.1m settlement in crane death suit
28 September, 2006
The family of Emilio Talavera, who was killed by a collapsing crane jib in 2000 at a Mitchell Gas Services plant near Bridgeport, Texas, have received a $3.1m settlement of their claim against Maxim crane rental, Pro-Quip and others. The family’s suit claimed that Maxim (then operating as Anthony Crane Rental) had failed to inspect and maintain the crane properly, and had improperly modified it prior to the accident, a claim supported by a 2001 OSHA report. The payment was delayed until August because of Maxim’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

UK training providers split in row over qualifications
27 September, 2006
The UK training provider NPORS (National Plant Operators Registration Scheme) has resigned from the country’s leading certification scheme, the CPCS (Construction Plant Certification Scheme) amid acrimony over the validity of the programme’s link to formal qualifications.

Cranes to spare
26 September, 2006
As Western manufacturers quote new crane delivery times of a year or more, China's second-largest maker of truck cranes, Puyuan, has cranes to spare. Now that Chinese producers have caught up with domestic demand, Puyuan is looking outside China for truck crane buyers, reports Stuart Anderson

Knowledge is power
26 September, 2006
William North examines remote controls with graphic displays, and finds they vastly improve an operator’s knowledge of lift conditions, and their power to control a crane efficiently.

Showtime in China (again!)
17 September, 2006
Six months after the launch of challenger Conexpo Asia, Bauma China returns with the European contingent of Western exhibitors

A three-point safety plan
24 July, 2006
Soeren Jansen is the managing director of Danish crane rental company BMS, and shared his views of safety at the Crane Safety 2006 conference in London in June.

Faymonville Euromax
21 July, 2006
Faymonville is launching a prototype of a new 7.6t tare weight semi-trailer.

SLIs in the real world
19 July, 2006
The Crane Safety & Management 2006 conference in London included a session hosted by Stuart Anderson, president of Chortsey Barr Associates, based on his article in the May issue of Cranes Today ‘The missing SLIs mystery’ (pp 18-21), regarding how many of the indicator systems installed in the 70s, 80s & 90s are still functional.

Tired tyres
19 July, 2006
With lead times as long as six weeks for a set of spares, all-terrain crane operators need to be more careful than ever to care for their tyres, reports Will Dalrymple

Rigging right
12 July, 2006
Rigging's contribution to half of all crane-related accidents put it at centre stage at the Crane Safety 2006 conference. Phil Bishop reports