Two of W O Grubb’s five new Grove TMS800Es at work.
Michelle Grubb, marketing and equipment manager, told Cranes Today, “Our fleet currently consists of approximately 175 mobile cranes (RTs, truck cranes, ATs, boomtrucks and industrial carry decks) and roughly 40 crawler cranes. Our largest mobile crane is a 550 US ton Grove GMK7550, and our largest crawlers are the Liebherr LR1400s.
“Purchasing decisions are really a question of availability – who has the cranes we want, at the right time and price. We have cranes from Liebherr, Manitowoc, Terex-Demag, Terex-American, Grove, Link-Belt, Tadano and National Boom.”
A Liebherr LR1400/2, a Link-Belt LS248H, and a Hitachi CX2000 on a W O Grubb steel erection job at Philip Morris’ Research and Technology Center in Richmond, Virginia.
The company has expanded its reach far beyond its roots as a steel erector. As Grubb explained, “We’ve seen a recent increase in the overall amount of large crawler work, which consists of everything from windmill and large industrial work to bridges, parking decks and commercial work. We have plenty of work close to our base in Virginia, and Maryland. We occasionally go further with the larger cranes, where the customer is prepared to pay the transport costs.”
