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Lampson International
When Lampson International is called on to help build power plants, stadiums, and wind towers, replace refinery components, or work on bridges, dams, offshore oil platforms and infrastructure projects, it calls on its fleet of Transi-Lift crawler cranes.
Built by the Kennewick, Washington company for its own projects and for rent to other heavy lifting companies, the high-capacity crawlers range up to 3,000 USt. The wide-ranging application of the company’s largest crawler carnes has included:
A Lampson Transi-Lift LTL-2600, with 400’ of main boom and a 20’ jib was on site at the Plant Vogtle power plant in Georgia for over three years. It was used to replace steam generators, make top head lifts, place containment building rings, and set conical roof modules.
A Lampson Transi-Lift LTL-1100 with 380’ of boom and 1,600 kips of counterweight was utilized for setting spans during the Duportail Bridge Project in Washington State. The largest girder was 175’ in length and weighed 228,000 lbs. with rigging. The longest reach was 320’.
A Lampson Transi-Lift LTL-1100 was used to lift a completed Rebar cage into position at the Kennecott Mine in Utah. The LTL-1100 was also required to load out, ship to site and assemble a CK-1000 lift crane, a Manitowoc 14000 lift crane and the Lampson Transi-Lift LTL-1100. The total lifted load was close to 400-USt and the equipment was on site and ready for the project within 20 days.
Buckner HeavyLift Cranes
Buckner HeavyLift Cranes, an East Graham, North Carolina provider of services to the heavy commercial and industrial markets, has put its fleet of Liebherr crawler cranes to work on some of the largest projects around the country. Among them are the following:
To lift a steel, retractable roof structure over Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, the largest tennis facility in the world, Buckner deployed Liebherr LR 11000/P 1300 and Liebherr 1600/2 crawlers.
To set tanks and vessels for an A-3 Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in St. Louis, Mississippi, including a 415,000-lb. pick, Buckner utilized its Liebherr LR 1600/2 SDWBW crawler with a 197′ main boom and a 118′ luffing jib.
Deep South Crane & Rigging
At Deep South Crane & Rigging, headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Terex-Demag 1760T and 1400T crawlers have served on a variety of projects, including:
The replacement of double-rail bridge trusses, each weighing 800,000 lbs. along a railroad line that crosses the Tug Fork River at Hatfield Bottom near Matewan, West Virginia required crane set up in a residential yard near a local interstate, and the ability to walk with the load due to the site layout along the river. Deep South's team used their 1,760-USt Terex-Demag CC-8800-1 crawler crane with its 375’ boom operating in an SSL/LSL Configuration and Tele-Superlift mode. The crawler crane with 1,583 kips of Tele-Superlift counterweight with a 98.4’ superlift radius facilitated an easier float and minimized downtime for counterweight adjustment.
Using a 1,400-USt Demag CC-6800, Deep South set 12 components at a mining facility in Michigan over the course of five months. The components ranged in weight from 85,000 to 100,000 lbs. The project included lifting an ore bin hopper, which weighed 100,000 lbs. and was set at a 282' radius.
Deep South was contracted to provide turnkey services that included transport, barging, and setting four towers at a Gulf Coast refinery. The towers weighed in at 142,000, 316,000, 485,000, and 1,162,000 lbs. The largest of the towers was lifted into its final position by a 1,760-ton Terex-Demag CC-8800-1 with 257’ of boom and 970 kips of super-lift counterweight.
In St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, Deep South completed a lift project in support of a major refinery upgrade. The lifts included a 435,000-lb. depentanizer that measured 146' long, 19' wide and 19' 6" tall; an 880,000-lb. depentanizer that measured 166' long, 23' 4" tall and 22' 8" wide, and a 670,000-lb. deisobutanizer that measured 221' long, 20' tall and 23' wide. The vessels were set using a 1,760-USt Terex CC8800- crawler crane.
At a refinery adjacent to a narrow and heavily trafficked canal measuring only 125’ wide in northern Illinois, Deep South lifted and set a 750,000-lb. reactor with a 1,760-USt Demag CC8000-1 crawler crane. With a traditional end roll off impossible, the company used the crane to perform a side roll off maneuver.
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Seth Skydel is a writer with 38 years of experience covering the trucking, utility, construction, and related markets.
