Big crane lifting big satellite
01-12-2006, 03:25 PM
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Big crane lifting big radar antenna
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I just got some pics of a lift we made several months ago that I thought might interest some of yall. If you look close at the base of the crane you can see a Grove cherrypicker to get an idea of its size. There is also a manlift on the barge. This lift was 2200 tons plus 1300 tons of rigging. It is rated for over 12000 tons.
[/IMG] I just got some pics of a lift we made several months ago that I thought might interest some of yall. If you look close at the base of the crane you can see a Grove cherrypicker to get an idea of its size. There is also a manlift on the barge. This lift was 2200 tons plus 1300 tons of rigging. It is rated for over 12000 tons.
01-12-2006, 05:25 PM
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Holy smokes.....12000 ton? Has to be a portal crane, can't see anything that big moving on crawlers.
Biggest rig I ever worked with was Deep South's TC 24000, and that thing's only good for 1300 ton. It's a portal crane, but I've seen 'em move it on jeeps. We picked a reactor off the top of a stacked cat cracker.
Had 2 of Lampson's TL-1000's back to back on either side of a pipe rack, picking a convection bundle off the top of a heater on one side and the cyclones out of a reactor on the other. That was fun.
3500 ton is an impressive pick.....what radius? Does that crane swing?
Biggest rig I ever worked with was Deep South's TC 24000, and that thing's only good for 1300 ton. It's a portal crane, but I've seen 'em move it on jeeps. We picked a reactor off the top of a stacked cat cracker.
Had 2 of Lampson's TL-1000's back to back on either side of a pipe rack, picking a convection bundle off the top of a heater on one side and the cyclones out of a reactor on the other. That was fun.
3500 ton is an impressive pick.....what radius? Does that crane swing?
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Hate to tell you, but (according to the title of the thread) that ain't no satellite......
It'll be able to track space targets, but there isn't anything on earth that would be able to lift that puppy into orbit.
We were talking about that radar at work just the other day.....
It'll be able to track space targets, but there isn't anything on earth that would be able to lift that puppy into orbit.
We were talking about that radar at work just the other day.....
01-12-2006, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by bulabula
Hate to tell you, but (according to the title of the thread) that ain't no satellite......
It'll be able to track space targets, but there isn't anything on earth that would be able to lift that puppy into orbit.
We were talking about that radar at work just the other day.....
It'll be able to track space targets, but there isn't anything on earth that would be able to lift that puppy into orbit.
We were talking about that radar at work just the other day.....
LOL
I might work for someone who knows a little about that radar
Check this out: Raytheon SBX-1 Radar
OR
More Pics Here
The second link has some good info on it too.
~Rob
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01-12-2006, 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by bulabula
Hate to tell you, but (according to the title of the thread) that ain't no satellite......
It'll be able to track space targets, but there isn't anything on earth that would be able to lift that puppy into orbit.
We were talking about that radar at work just the other day.....
It'll be able to track space targets, but there isn't anything on earth that would be able to lift that puppy into orbit.
We were talking about that radar at work just the other day.....
01-12-2006, 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Cowhand
Holy smokes.....12000 ton? Has to be a portal crane, can't see anything that big moving on crawlers.
Biggest rig I ever worked with was Deep South's TC 24000, and that thing's only good for 1300 ton. It's a portal crane, but I've seen 'em move it on jeeps. We picked a reactor off the top of a stacked cat cracker.
Had 2 of Lampson's TL-1000's back to back on either side of a pipe rack, picking a convection bundle off the top of a heater on one side and the cyclones out of a reactor on the other. That was fun.
3500 ton is an impressive pick.....what radius? Does that crane swing?
Biggest rig I ever worked with was Deep South's TC 24000, and that thing's only good for 1300 ton. It's a portal crane, but I've seen 'em move it on jeeps. We picked a reactor off the top of a stacked cat cracker.
Had 2 of Lampson's TL-1000's back to back on either side of a pipe rack, picking a convection bundle off the top of a heater on one side and the cyclones out of a reactor on the other. That was fun.
3500 ton is an impressive pick.....what radius? Does that crane swing?
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Originally Posted by hotdram
Nope, it's headed to Adak Alaska.
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The whole assembly (the antenna at the top of this thread isn't the whole thing) was loaded onto M/V Blue Marlin, the same ship that brought home the USS Cole from Yemen.
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