ALL Crane Rental Provides the Muscle on Power Plant Lift

Enlarge Image All Crane Rental provided the equipment for this lift at a power plant.

February 20, 2008 • The right cranes can do the heavy lifting, even in difficult spots. But it takes seasoned crane experts to figure out exactly how to will get the job done. The general contractor for a power plant in Masontown, Pa., recently called on ALL Crane Rental of Pennsylvania to help it with a heavy lifting application. The power plant had an outage and needed ALL to help it re-tube a major boiler to restore power at the plant.

The job required lifting the old boiler parts out of the plant and lowering the new ones. But the complication was that the only location to place the 500-ton Liebherr model LTM1400-7.1 hydraulic truck crane for access to the boiler was in a tight space: a deep hole immediately adjacent to the building. It took nine months of planning and more than a week to assemble the crane, which had a 186-foot boom and 151-foot luffing jib. A 130-ton RT crane was brought in to assist with the crane's assembly, and the jib had to be landed onto a fifth-floor level of the building and assembled there. A Y-guy boom suspension superlift attachment provided extra capacity.

 

The difficult lift finally took place in October 2007.

 

ALL Crane Rental of Pennsylvania is a member of the ALL Family of Companies. Since 1964, the ALL family of companies has grown to become one of the largest crane and equipment rental companies in North America. The company offers its fleet of cranes, aerial work platforms, boom trucks, material handlers, and other lift equipment from strategic locations throughout the U.S. and Canada, providing rental, sales, service, and jobsite analysis.