New OSHA Crane Laws Will Effect Everyone in Construction

If you haven’t heard already there will be new Federal OSHA Laws concerning cranes coming into effect on November 8, 2010. The laws are in place to ensure jobsite safety and are the responsibility of all parties involved with using the crane…the crane company, the contractor that hires the crane, and the General Contractor. The [...]

Potain Tower Crane Setting Up and Breaking Down

Recently, under the threat of a possible hurricane, we had to break down both of our Potain HDT 80 Tower Cranes on the corner of Chapel and High Streets in New Haven, CT. It gave us an opportunity to catch the process in action. The video is time elapsed, but the entire process takes only [...]

Our 275 Ton Crane Setting a Conspan Bridge in Oxford, CT

The video above and the pictures below are of a job we did in Oxford, CT for Surplus Construction. Surplus was building a bridge over a small brook and needed just about all of the picking capacity of our 275 Ton Grove All Terrain Crane. The precast sections weighed 60,000 pounds a piece and were [...]