Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA-based heavy civil construction company Zenith Tech, part of the Walbec Group, used a Tadano GTC-2000 crawler crane to help rebuild a pedestrian/bike bridge on the Glacial Drumlin State Trail, Wisconsin USA. The bridge was across an old railroad bed over Rock Lake, near Lake Mills.
“The piers were failing, so we essentially built new ones,” explains construction manager Steve Firari. A key challenge was finding a crane large enough to do the work needed yet small enough to get in here due to the size of the access trail.
An added challenge was that the crane could not go on the bridge.
“It had to have the ability to walk the approximately quarter mile (400 m) on the path and stay out of the tree canopy,” explains Firari. “Once at the site, it had to be able to sit in one spot and have enough reach, capacity and power to pick up the beams, swing them at about a 144-foot (44 m) radius, and then drive them into the ground. The Tadano GTC-2000 was the ideal choice with its mobility, tracks, boom and everything else considered.”
The crane’s low ground pressure also made it well suited to working on the ecologically sensitive site.
Zenith Tech rented the crane from Reynolds Equipment, which is the Tadano dealer for the state of Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.