I liked the technique of adding the stationary counter weights to extend the lifted cranes across the canal by lowering the boom without swinging it around. Most of the crane crashes, shown on youtube, happen while swinging around, and/or, lowering the boom, with a load, and not enough counter weights.
Always rewarding to complete a heavy lift job when things are carefully planned and executed with equipment with proper capacity and a crew that knows what they're doing. Well done.
I can’t imagine the pressure on those boom pivot bearings. They don’t move much, but any play do to wear would be disastrous. Manitowoc sure knows how to build a boom section.
Who else thought of the Stonehenge scene from "This is Spinal Tap" when they saw '240" of boom'? 😝 Very cool video. People don't realize how much work goes into just preparing for a job. The big crane takes multiple truckloads for counterweights, boom sections and pads for support.
Very cool video but not sure who added the caption showing the 190,000 weight for that stripped down 120 ton Liebherr. They are over 80,000 lbs off because an LTM1100 rolls down the road at under 110,000 lbs with no counterweight like that was when lifted.
Liebherr has a crane that uses a similar sized crane as the one lifted over the canal as part of its counter weight. It's also needed to assemble the crane.
@@thrillchaser9492 I knew there was an extention you could put on the back, see this video of a model version... th-cam.com/video/GpRWf2-_-pY/w-d-xo.html But that Transi lift... 😲
Something else about this being so costly.... the power companies have to make projects as expensive as hell, so they can go to the public service commissions and get rate increases! That’s the way big utilities work.
Why the lift across a river, is there not any other way to get equipment to that spot, i the one that is seeing this for the first time , looks like a commercial for the crane 🏗 nice job, thanks BigAl California.
Like to know what CWT was used for lifting the drilling rig ? Crane boom 240' appears to be about 45 deg. angle when lowering the drill. If so, using the boom as the hypotenuse of a right triangle and taking the Sin of 45 deg (.707) we can multiply 240' by .707=170' rounded off. Using a radius of 170' x 130,000 lb= 22,100,000 lb moment of force. If the center of CWT is 40' to rear of crane center-- 22,100,000/40' = 552,500 lbs CWT. !!! Not sure of the exact numbers or measurements actually used on this job. I worked around cranes on big jobs years ago but never anything like this. Hats off to these professionals.
It's hard to believe the first piece of equipment weighed 130,000 pounds (65 tons). It didn't look very big. And what's with the racket accompanying the video? It would have been better without it.
Like many folks here, I was curious about why they didn't drive the little crane across a bridge as an obvious cost savings. Well, there wasn't one big enough! See the research here! docs.google.com/document/d/1DVClAwAL3Hj1YFBczi2XFPnAriRSEmQxcOi68dTx3aQ/edit?usp=sharing Short version: they're landing the little crane and transmission line tower on an island between a river and a canal. Transmission line is going in approximately here: 29°38'34.96" N 98°03'06.18" W
This is really good lifting and nice riggings planing the crawler crane setup is amazing appreciated, but why they are not crossing that mobile telescopic crane by that bridge?
If only there was a bridge nearby.... Or better still, erect the pole on the other side of the river. Just a few suggestions from a TH-cam comment section expert
They cut out the tricky parts in the last vid, standing it up vertical (without swing) and landing it perfectly over the bolt holes. I guess the operator didnt want us to see the inaccuracies.
TNT is one of the BEST crane companies not only in Texas but the USA alone, most of our work is done in refineries or plants. Extensive lift plans, each rigger is Advanced Gold Plus NCCER certified. Most crane fails or at least 85% are over seas from clowns that don’t know the difference in a choker or basket hitch and couldn’t calculate a lid to save they’re life.
Some bridge Mats could probably over just been overlaid on the existing bridge. Mammoet does it all the time. That said the crane works fine. Have actually picked way more weight than that with an 18000.
@@kristoffMR ummm no not at all. Mammoet almost took my arm in 2016. Mammoet shockloaded the lr11350 on the same job with 22ton on the hook 300ft from center pin. Watched them hang the Derrick boom of the demag 3800 on the same job as well. Had their cantilever beam explode on us this February during prelift checks. Mammoet is just another crane and rigging company. They are far from the best.
Been several years ago for me, but used to be around pier rigs a lot, and they all used kellies. Typically two or three telescoping sections. Since they don't use drill pipe, just the telescoping kelly, there is no real advantage to a top drive system.
The massive cost getting that larger crain in to site and constructing it and the cost of hire per day and the cost of hire for smaller crain not to mention any other costs of this job you would have thought it was be cheaper to erect a small temporary bridge
Adding the costs for having a suitable temporary bridge engineered, fabricated, installed, disassebled and removed PLUSS the fines for overrunning the time schedule; possible not.
there's a dozen ways to do this easier, safer, cheaper. but those things were ignored when someone decided money must be spent. so every now and again you'll see these outrageously ridiculous lifts and moves happening that don't need to be. government, big businesses, taxes, politicians..... ya know. those people
I’m pretty sure they meant to say it was a little more than 240 inches of boom. That’s only 20 feet of boom. I’m willing to bet the tracks on the main crane are that long.
Lol no it doesn't Its a 120ton crane and thats only with full counterweight at like 10ft radius. Crane probably weighs about half without ballast. Ballast is 31ton alone but they didn't fly it with ballast
@@kylevanwinkle2081 Ok I don't know that much about cranes but I was thinking there was no way that crane weighs 120 tons with or without ballast. I still can't believe that mobile crane can lift 120 tons. But I guess maybe it can.
@@electrolytics that little 120 we had 2 of them set up to move a 51ton vessel off a trailer. And each was maxed out 120ton isn't really realistic capacity. They dont even ship the cranes out with 120ton lift blocks because they will never lift 120ton except in super specific conditions. The average 100ton cran ships with a 70-80ton lift block for instance. Most ive picked with a 100ton i think was like 40ish ton and it had to be right up on it. The crawler crane lifting the smaller crane can be setup to be incredibly strong and quite far distances. Especially with the added ballast tray like they have. Ive actually made my biggest lift with a similar crane tailing a 1000t crane that was lifting 510ton so at start the tailing crane was holding 255ton and lost weight as the larger crane stood the tower up. Cranes are such simple machines that can do incredibly complex tasks as long as they are set up correctly and load charts are followed
@@kylevanwinkle2081 Thanks for the info. I've driven trucks for 18 years and worked on the railroad as a switchman. I know my weights pretty good. That's what I initially thought....there's no way that vehicle itself weighs 120 tons. Then I thought maybe 120 tons means it's lifting capacity..but I thought that was a little steep too.
@@electrolytics some of the crane designed require the crane to be heavier than the load others not so much. Its all about leverage. I've worked with cranes where the boom its self was 500t and to stand the boom up off the ground you needed 1200ton of ballast on top of the cranes base weight itself. We made a pick at 394ft of 250t with a 2500t crane and iirc we had 1300tons of auxiliary ballast and 250ton of main ballast to reach that far using the 450ft boom. This put the boom angle as a fairly low degree meaning the leverage the crane had was low thus the high ballast weight. Look up deep south crane or mammoet they do some extremely heavy lifting and have some of the largest cranes in the world. We sub contract both companies out fairly regularly. We use tnt sometimes as well.
I’m a little confused as to why they needed to put the counterweights on after turning rather than just hooking onto the load with the boom extended to where it needed to be to reach across the canal. I’m not an expert by any means but it seems like removing and attaching the weights each time would be a pain.
There's a troll living under it who charges an exuberant toll for anything larger than itself to cross because it was teased for being small as a child and has insecurity issues.
@@CarrotCaptain do you know how much that crane is worth moving in there? Well over a million. It takes 65 tractor trailer loads. permits a week to set up and a week to tear down
If not a new bridge they could of just got a temp bridge put in. They can hold the weight of that road crane. We have them at work and drove over those temp briges before.
I liked the technique of adding the stationary counter weights to extend the lifted cranes across the canal by lowering the boom without swinging it around. Most of the crane crashes, shown on youtube, happen while swinging around, and/or, lowering the boom, with a load, and not enough counter weights.
National Geographic: Here you can see a mother showing her child how to cross rivers.
Nice operating skills , smooth low and slow, I was privileged with operating the first 18000 built.
How many of these are built? I expect not too many!
Thanx for the compliment I appreciate you
Always rewarding to complete a heavy lift job when things are carefully planned and executed with equipment with proper capacity and a crew that knows what they're doing. Well done.
I can’t imagine the pressure on those boom pivot bearings. They don’t move much, but any play do to wear would be disastrous. Manitowoc sure knows how to build a boom section.
Why the whacko noise? Let’s hear the natural sounds.
Agreed. The music had to be muted here
whir whir whir whir whir
Drone footage.
give them a thumbs down and report for he music- this is not as described--- must use mute
Agreed! That racket sucks!
Nice to see the man standing on counter weight boom to add extra weight.
Without him it would've tipped.
He brought the necessary balance
Fantastic video 📹 clip looking in from Ireland 🇮🇪
Who else thought of the Stonehenge scene from "This is Spinal Tap" when they saw '240" of boom'? 😝
Very cool video. People don't realize how much work goes into just preparing for a job. The big crane takes multiple truckloads for counterweights, boom sections and pads for support.
Video was great, didn't care for the music.
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Hell I thought it was dope...
Started air guitaring and head banging like it was the 90s
Very cool video but not sure who added the caption showing the 190,000 weight for that stripped down 120 ton Liebherr. They are over 80,000 lbs off because an LTM1100 rolls down the road at under 110,000 lbs with no counterweight like that was when lifted.
I would have loved to see them haul in that crawler crane, set it up, and then break it down. I bet that they used that mobile crane.
Thats crazy seeing a crane lift another crane lol. Good lift buddy!
Check out liebherr open house crane lifting crane. You'll be very impressed.
The crane is magnificently intense
Liebherr has a crane that uses a similar sized crane as the one lifted over the canal as part of its counter weight. It's also needed to assemble the crane.
Who's here after seeing that big blue beast being built at SpaceXs Starship construction site?
There is even a bigger version of this crane...look up transi- lift..made by lampson
@@thrillchaser9492 I knew there was an extention you could put on the back, see this video of a model version...
th-cam.com/video/GpRWf2-_-pY/w-d-xo.html
But that Transi lift... 😲
@Bill Williams whoops slip of the tongue, I was not aware of that incident, sorry if it caused offence, I know people died.
I think SpaceX has the bigger version of it.
@@simonquvang6073 bigger than what....lmao
Something else about this being so costly.... the power companies have to make projects as expensive as hell, so they can go to the public service commissions and get rate increases! That’s the way big utilities work.
Thomas Sellers so, so true,
I bet Big Billy Bunter standing on the counterweights stopped that massive crane from toppling over, looked hellish expensive operation.
Would have been nice to see them build the crawler crane
I helped weld a lot of the parts when I worked for Cranes and if you think that's huge look up the 39000
I helped weld alot of crane booms while I was working at Manitowoc cranes
Pity about=the background noise,making it unwatchable with out turning off
Cool vid my boy Eli in the 120 good job TnT .
Why the lift across a river, is there not any other way to get equipment to that spot, i the one that is seeing this for the first time , looks like a commercial for the crane 🏗 nice job, thanks BigAl California.
Thank goodness for the mute function
Simply impressive.
Like to know what CWT was used for lifting the drilling rig ? Crane boom 240' appears to be about 45 deg. angle when lowering the drill. If so, using the boom as the hypotenuse of a right triangle and taking the Sin of 45 deg (.707) we can multiply 240' by .707=170' rounded off. Using a radius of 170' x 130,000 lb= 22,100,000 lb moment of force. If the center of CWT is 40' to rear of crane center-- 22,100,000/40' = 552,500 lbs CWT. !!! Not sure of the exact numbers or measurements actually used on this job. I worked around cranes on big jobs years ago but never anything like this. Hats off to these professionals.
0:43 We need more weight on the back. Jimmy get up there!!!
lol That's what I was thinking too!!!
Music is overkill
It's hard to believe the first piece of equipment weighed 130,000 pounds (65 tons). It didn't look very big. And what's with the racket accompanying the video? It would have been better without it.
Like many folks here, I was curious about why they didn't drive the little crane across a bridge as an obvious cost savings. Well, there wasn't one big enough!
See the research here! docs.google.com/document/d/1DVClAwAL3Hj1YFBczi2XFPnAriRSEmQxcOi68dTx3aQ/edit?usp=sharing
Short version: they're landing the little crane and transmission line tower on an island between a river and a canal. Transmission line is going in approximately here: 29°38'34.96" N 98°03'06.18" W
Question why could u haul it across the bridge with a semi 🤔
Are you asking why the tower could be hauled across?
Was the yellow crane a Liebherr?
Fantastic video.
I'd like to see how they got the big red crane out there
Totally awesome and satisfying 👍🏾👍🏾
Nice job
Does the big crane have a cab for an operator to sit? Or is it operated remotely?
1:48
When iron workers are in charge of rigging and lifting smooth all the way
I still can't believe that little drilling rig weighed 130000!
I'm also impressed to see the little kid rig weighed 130000!
This is really good lifting and nice riggings planing the crawler crane setup is amazing appreciated, but why they are not crossing that mobile telescopic crane by that bridge?
It must’ve been over the weight limit.
A Sikorsky sky crane would’ve done the job of putting up those poles. But this was pretty cool.
240 inches of boom. Nice but it looked like more.
🤣👍🏻🤣👍🏻
Awesome operation. Let you off with the slightly unclean music edits
They should of turned the music off and went fishing otherwise good video.
A whole lot of people knew what the heck they were doing .
nice filming
If only there was a bridge nearby....
Or better still, erect the pole on the other side of the river. Just a few suggestions from a TH-cam comment section expert
They cut out the tricky parts in the last vid, standing it up vertical (without swing) and landing it perfectly over the bolt holes. I guess the operator didnt want us to see the inaccuracies.
Like you could do any better
@@Thebassguru84 that matters?
After watching many YT crane fails, I almost expected it to land in the water!
TNT is one of the BEST crane companies not only in Texas but the USA alone, most of our work is done in refineries or plants. Extensive lift plans, each rigger is Advanced Gold Plus NCCER certified. Most crane fails or at least 85% are over seas from clowns that don’t know the difference in a choker or basket hitch and couldn’t calculate a lid to save they’re life.
@@kennethpigg8782 Yes most accidents are caused they rarely just happen.
To those who a baffled...
The crane is 120tons. Judging by the looks of the bridge nearby, I think it can only hold up to ~40tons.
Some bridge Mats could probably over just been overlaid on the existing bridge. Mammoet does it all the time.
That said the crane works fine. Have actually picked way more weight than that with an 18000.
mammoet is also superior to all crane/ rigging companies out there!
@@kristoffMR ummm no not at all. Mammoet almost took my arm in 2016. Mammoet shockloaded the lr11350 on the same job with 22ton on the hook 300ft from center pin. Watched them hang the Derrick boom of the demag 3800 on the same job as well.
Had their cantilever beam explode on us this February during prelift checks.
Mammoet is just another crane and rigging company. They are far from the best.
@@kristoffMR No. Good outfit, but just one of many. All use competent, professional people who are serious about the work they perform.
Ótimo trabalho em equipe😁
I think I would have used 2 smaller hydro's and drove over the bridge? Perhaps a little cheaper! Impressive regardless!!
why did you not just carry it over the bridge, the first one. Seen crane jobs go tits up with only four anchors lifting a crane.
Kept load low then waited till he boomed out to attach more counter weight.
Well, really he kept his load radius tight until he attached more counter weight.
I'm surprised the drill rig uses a kelly bar, I thought top drives were the standard in self propelled rigs
Been several years ago for me, but used to be around pier rigs a lot, and they all used kellies. Typically two or three telescoping sections. Since they don't use drill pipe, just the telescoping kelly, there is no real advantage to a top drive system.
All a bit OTT.. There was a bridge nearby,, that could have been strengthened / load spread, at a fraction of the cost ?
TNT Crane operators still all working nonunion?
Came for the heavy lifting
Left bc of the terrible music. Absolutely obnoxious.
It is so hard to mute...
Poor you ! LOL mute it ...like i do everytime i don't wanna ear something !!!
The massive cost getting that larger crain in to site and constructing it and the cost of hire per day and the cost of hire for smaller crain not to mention any other costs of this job you would have thought it was be cheaper to erect a small temporary bridge
Adding the costs for having a suitable temporary bridge engineered, fabricated, installed, disassebled and removed PLUSS the fines for overrunning the time schedule; possible not.
why is power bill so high every time???
Obviously the architect has shares in the crane company
Got to be a island no other way across
Forget the music!!
It would have cost less and took less time to build a temporary bridge.
All that just stack a monopole. I wanna see what the crane bill was for that tower owner after all that lol
Why do they pick up the smaller crane so far away instead of closer to the water so the red crane doesn't have to turn 180 degrees?
Everything is being driven in on crane mats. Both cranes.
Wouldn’t using a small barge have been more feasible?
Not a chance, you'd have to use a big one and get it there somehow. Sometimes you just gotta lash out to to get stuff done.
there's a dozen ways to do this easier, safer, cheaper. but those things were ignored when someone decided money must be spent. so every now and again you'll see these outrageously ridiculous lifts and moves happening that don't need to be. government, big businesses, taxes, politicians..... ya know. those people
You know there’s a bridge like right there
That would make a boring video.
The crane might be over the weight limit that the bridge can handle
I’m pretty sure they meant to say it was a little more than 240 inches of boom. That’s only 20 feet of boom. I’m willing to bet the tracks on the main crane are that long.
The tracks on that crane are 80k lbs a track. I've hauled them and set the 18000 up before on wind mill projects.
240 feet of boom.
working with maxilift !!
240 inch of boom nice
That mobile crane weighs 120 tons?
Lol no it doesn't
Its a 120ton crane and thats only with full counterweight at like 10ft radius.
Crane probably weighs about half without ballast. Ballast is 31ton alone but they didn't fly it with ballast
@@kylevanwinkle2081 Ok I don't know that much about cranes but I was thinking there was no way that crane weighs 120 tons with or without ballast.
I still can't believe that mobile crane can lift 120 tons. But I guess maybe it can.
@@electrolytics that little 120 we had 2 of them set up to move a 51ton vessel off a trailer. And each was maxed out 120ton isn't really realistic capacity. They dont even ship the cranes out with 120ton lift blocks because they will never lift 120ton except in super specific conditions. The average 100ton cran ships with a 70-80ton lift block for instance. Most ive picked with a 100ton i think was like 40ish ton and it had to be right up on it.
The crawler crane lifting the smaller crane can be setup to be incredibly strong and quite far distances. Especially with the added ballast tray like they have. Ive actually made my biggest lift with a similar crane tailing a 1000t crane that was lifting 510ton so at start the tailing crane was holding 255ton and lost weight as the larger crane stood the tower up.
Cranes are such simple machines that can do incredibly complex tasks as long as they are set up correctly and load charts are followed
@@kylevanwinkle2081 Thanks for the info. I've driven trucks for 18 years and worked on the railroad as a switchman.
I know my weights pretty good.
That's what I initially thought....there's no way that vehicle itself weighs 120 tons.
Then I thought maybe 120 tons means it's lifting capacity..but I thought that was a little steep too.
@@electrolytics some of the crane designed require the crane to be heavier than the load others not so much. Its all about leverage. I've worked with cranes where the boom its self was 500t and to stand the boom up off the ground you needed 1200ton of ballast on top of the cranes base weight itself.
We made a pick at 394ft of 250t with a 2500t crane and iirc we had 1300tons of auxiliary ballast and 250ton of main ballast to reach that far using the 450ft boom. This put the boom angle as a fairly low degree meaning the leverage the crane had was low thus the high ballast weight.
Look up deep south crane or mammoet they do some extremely heavy lifting and have some of the largest cranes in the world. We sub contract both companies out fairly regularly. We use tnt sometimes as well.
Ok brother
Who else started headbanging low key on the rif?
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Muito bom trabalho
you're telling me that 120 couldnt drive across the bridge?
I’m a little confused as to why they needed to put the counterweights on after turning rather than just hooking onto the load with the boom extended to where it needed to be to reach across the canal. I’m not an expert by any means but it seems like removing and attaching the weights each time would be a pain.
I'd be scared watching the Luffing down, experts
Scared? What the hell for?
So uh, why not just drive over that causeway?
Would of been cheaper to MGOB the bridge, they milked this one.
The bridge is probably not even designed for 40 tons.
Well said Mark
And now serving SpaceX' new highbay.
great joB TNT
They should have called the Navy Seabees they'd had that thing up without any Crane.
What does the guy on the back do?
@@johnrauner2515 wow alrighty then
I think they meant 240 feet of jib, not 240 inches! BobUK
They dont have any jib on that crane.
Yeah we all know that
@@simonchant761 well if the guy is going to correct the video he should at least be correct himself
Isn't there a bridge 100m behind??
It's all too heavy for the bridge. You missed the whole point.....fool
Horrible choice to add the music. Have to watch this video muted.
Hoffe der Kranplatz ist verdichtet!
240 inches of boom huh?
Hey boys. We could of just used the bridge!
Did anyone point out to them the bridge 50 mtrs away?
There's a troll living under it who charges an exuberant toll for anything larger than itself to cross because it was teased for being small as a child and has insecurity issues.
Nommy ohhhh makes sense
Better than Pijneman in Alphen aan de Rijn
Sadly they didn't see the bridge
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WHY PLAY THAT ANNOING SOUND MADE ON A KEYBOARD??? IT`S DISGUSTING AND WAY TOO LOUD
LET US HEAR THE SOUNDS FROM WHAT WE SEE: NOT THAT AMATEUR "MUSIC"
For how much it was to rent that crane and set up and mobilisation. They could of built a new bridge 10x over.
No way man. Bridges are expensive.
@@CarrotCaptain do you know how much that crane is worth moving in there? Well over a million. It takes 65 tractor trailer loads. permits a week to set up and a week to tear down
If not a new bridge they could of just got a temp bridge put in. They can hold the weight of that road crane. We have them at work and drove over those temp briges before.
@@dzlf2504 A temp bridge might of been cheaper. I assume someone competent ran the numbers.
Maybe they should use those cranes to build a better bridge while they're at it. Just sayin :)
I'm down with the music, f the haters. Mute it bitches.
The outro got a little weak on me though. 🤘🤘🤘🤘
That 120 doesn't weight 190,000. Nice try though.