craneporn

craneporn is a collection of photographs of cranes

Nov 22nd, 2009 @ 4:49 pm

Liebherr LR1280, Model:

Blood, sweat and tears! That is what it costed me to build this crawler crane model (1:50) in Mammoet colors. I am used to making the mobile crane models, but these crawlers are a world on it’s own, all the reeving work is amazing!

Making details in 1:50 I am glad this is stuff isn’t as fragile in real life.

Fully erect it’s about 1,8m high.

In real life this is a medium crawler crane with a lifting capacity of 280tons and an operational weight of 224,4 tons!

Nov 19th, 2009 @ 8:30 am

Overhead crane detail BW

Nov 15th, 2009 @ 10:06 pm

Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1 McNallys Crane :

max. lifting capacity: 1200 t at 2,5 m radius

Telescopic boom:18.3 m - 100 m
Lattice jib :6.5 m - 126 m

Carrier engine/output: Liebherr, 8-cylinder, turbo-Diesel, 500 kW

Crane engine/output: Liebherr, 6-cylinder, turbo-Diesel, 240 kW

Drive/steering: 18 x 8 x 18
Travel speed: 75 km/h
Operational weight: 96 t

Total counterweight: 202 t

Pictures from Bartelsdorf, Germany © December 2008 Tony Zech