As a 45 year retired crane operator, today’s crane technology is amazing, the eighth wonder of the world compared to what I started out on. Although I have run only a 300 ton rig, only an experienced crane operator can appreciate the capabilities of today’s machines and the people responsible for the operation of them.
Probably the best video on TH-cam about larger cranes and how they are made, run and used. I don´t care if it´s regarded as an ad for a certain manufacturer. Thank you, WELT Documentary! :-)
This is one of the best of these videos. Hugely informative and entertaining. If I had seen this 30 years ago I would have considered it as a career. Impressive machines!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Nah this documentary was quite underwhelming imo. Why are there three different voices speaking and why are they using film music lol? Way too dramatic and not enough information.
I've always loved cranes when we would visit my Grandparents in Brooklyn we passed Bay Crane and see the big cranes in the yard next to the water I'd be facisnated they're so cool.
WHAT is going on with the music? Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, The Matrix … nevermind the odd music choice, doesn’t it cost tons of money to use them?
Lmfaooo yoo im watching this like this the third time their bringing up that they gotta remove the roof wen are they gonna take it down already n im like did he really say so called weather roof n as I'm writing this comment he goes and these parts are moved on these so-called rotating platforms lmfaooo this guy is "so-called" the narrator of this documentary
I couldn't agree more with this "so-called" comment. The "so-called" documentary is "so-called" interesting but "so-called" annoying. Is it "so-called" or is that what it is?!🤣
LOVE TO WATCH DOCUMENTARY LIKE THIS. BEACUS I DRIVE A 17 METRE TELESCOPE HANDLER FORKLIFT. USE TO BE DRIVE 360 .ITS KIND OF FORKLIFT + CRANE. LOVE IT !!!
Unless you have a woman who loves cranes too... ConExpo for the 7th time coming up in March !!! Them boys got lucky to go to the Liebherr Factory in Germany... not many Americans get sent there... usually we just get a week long commission on new cranes in the States unless it's a specialty crane size like a new LR Model or 800 ton and above .. I'll stick to my 400 ton Hydro...lol
Interesting job, i have been doing it in some years on the small and big cranes, not as big as this one. Lots of responsibilities, lots of stress. Long days, and it is going to be like this almost every day, and sometimes in weekend. It is a very good job for the people who has no family (life) to take care of. Good salary, but you dont have actually time to spend the money.
@@Penguin_of_Death ....mind you, the Tadano is just a cheaper version of the Liebherr, so - technically - it's still an ad for Liebherr, who probably sponsored all or part of the documentary anyway.
"You take the left, I'll take the right, it's all the same to me" lol If he doesn't know the difference between left and right, could be some interesting times ahead as a crane operator.
Interesting especially since "free documentaries" channel has same start, figure its all one production company doing the doco's and spreading them out as seen this place already just not to in depth stuff
I just spent 20 hours over the weekend,watching a massive Sarens crane installing rd bridge sections on a project in s Wales in the u.k , lots if wasted time issues, but also a pleasure to witness.
They offer a lot of big cranes. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have real interest in other crane types cranes like smaller tower cranes - here others like Potain offer much better hardware than Liebherr, with a faster winch and a higher jib in the same class, zinc coated instead of painted.
Definition of bolt 1a: a lightning stroke also : THUNDERBOLT b: a shaft or missile designed to be shot from a crossbow or catapult especially : a short stout usually blunt-headed arrow 2a: a wood or metal bar or rod used to fasten a door b: the part of a lock that is shot or withdrawn by the key 3: a metal rod or pin for fastening objects together that usually has a head at one end and a screw thread at the other and is secured by a nut 4: a roll of cloth or wallpaper of specified length 5: a metal cylinder that drives the cartridge into the chamber of a firearm, locks the breech, and usually contains the firing pin and extractor 6a: a block of timber to be sawed or cut b: a short round section of a log So NO. A bolt does not necessarily needs to be threaded...
@@Guds777 I accept your alternative definitions but in this case the term "bolt" does not apply to a pin designed and used to connect crane Jib (not "boom)" sections .
waite so please show universal evidence to support this? From my experience there are different terms used for the same thing depending on where you are and who you talk to.
waite simple engineering terms where you are. Go elsewhere and I can assure you there will be other simple engineering terms. The use of the English language is not identical everywhere around the world. Different areas use different terms to mean the same thing and in some cases different engineering specialties use different terms for substantially the same thing.
Holy crap, I feel terrible for Hans Zimmer. I thought his career was going really well I didn’t realise he had resorted to writing scores for low rent crane documentaries.
Bob Eden the Germans they call them bolts, I’m not sure why but I’ve worked with many in assembling cranes, I used to be confused but eventually got used to it
The crane tipping over at 1:13 might have been the one in South America which tipped over because the slave driver didn't want to waste time laying down wooden mats which the crane was supposed to spread the weight of the crane on. The log in the computer was disconnected. Like a black box in a plane ,it can be analyzed to see if the crane was overloaded. No I was wrong. It's in Italy. 27:23 they show it again. But it seems like they overrode the computer. When the computer detects something outside of the crane's operating parameters it would only allow the crane to lower the load.
Why is everything "so called"... It's like saying "This is, supposedly, called a jib". Does the narrator not trust the person who wrote his script? "These are called outriggers.. I guess.. If you want to believe that.. I personally don't..".
We got a Brand New National Boom Truck on the Job and the Operator pulled the out Riggers UP while the BOOM was still Extended on the side of the Truck.....YEA THE OPERATOR IS NOW KNOWN AS FLIPPER....FLIPPER WAS FIRED IMMEDIATELY.
I like Liebherr better than Manitowoc/Grove/National/Potain anyway, and I prefer all terrain mobile cranes rather that truck mounted mobile cranes/"Boom trucks", but use whatever kind of crane suits your application. Also, that sounds like an incompetent operator! (Obviously) How much did the crane cost? (Besides way too much!)
Ha! I couldn’t believe my eyes when i saw those electronic Crane cards, for that state of the art gigantic lifting monster, were kept in a tatty cardboard box someone could sit on and squash! and not a foam lined aluminium/hard plastic one. 😂
Exploring the limits of physics, Wow I thought this was about cranes but it appears to be also about the LHC at CERN. Maybe you over egged it a little there.
If I had to order a super expensive mega crane. I'd have it painted in some strange colour. Like extremely offensive pink, or bright neon green. Just to annoy people.
More like they stole Hans Zimmer's soundtrack for Dark Knight Rises. Unless they're not making any money off of these videos, in which case, usage of this copyrighted material is a matter of "fair use" or something, they sought permission to use this music.
37:00 Anyone ever heard of a camera that is mounted at the top of the boom and directed by the crane operator to assist in giving first hand information where otherwise the operator can't see? Really???
yep...and as soon as the weather turns sour (snow, sleet, freezing rain etc) you see dick f**k all on the camera monitor. Much better to stick to verbal commands via radio.
Biden was suppose to show him, then suddenly a blank look came over his face as he wandered off with a little kid, a ball gag, & a gallon jug of lube, right before falling down the basement stairs.
Mr. Narrator you have it all wrong! Those parts of the crane are called; the jibs; the pullies; and pins; not bolts, or ‘so called’ anything else, if you don’t know the name ask someone who does know it
considering that the new 5-axle all-terrain mobile crane (Demag/Grove 550XLD_ which we just recently delivered from Massachusetts to Newfoundland & Labrador had a customs invoice value of ,U$ 1,350,000, it wouldn't surprise me that this Liebherr Crawler crane checks-in at about 3 Mio Euros (and the small Tadano probably cost about 500.000 Euros when new. That explains the hourly rates these crane-operators charge these days (in Canada a mid-size mobile crane operator charges about C$1,500/hr (calculated from/to the operator's home-terminal)
probably, because the average viewer is not familiar with these components and would maybe misunderstand the meaning of the true terminology. But, I agree with you (and most of the other commenters) that the narrator definitely overdid it.
Liebherr is my favorite crane manufacturer, but I also like Tadano and Demag. ALE/Mammoet cranes are cool, but those are crazy gigantic specialty cranes.
This just glorified commercial for a couple European Companies crap. Other manufacturer's like Lampson here the USA had Lie bert had already built a gaints crawler cranes called Transy Lift s they two huge crawler assembly's the. Crane site on it travel with a picked load.
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With the soundtrack, i expected to see Captain Jack Sparrow standing atop of the biggest crane...
Joni Antonio - The Millennial Landlord he was, you missed him.
And how did you manage your desappointement ?
Lol sounds more like the dark knight sound track to me hahaha. Wait it might actually be the dark knight sound track. Wait it’s actually both.
"In the market as it were..." LOL!
I've got a jar of dirt
As a 45 year retired crane operator, today’s crane technology is amazing, the eighth wonder of the world compared to what I started out on. Although I have run only a 300 ton rig, only an experienced crane operator can appreciate the capabilities of today’s machines and the people responsible for the operation of them.
So called
Probably the best video on TH-cam about larger cranes and how they are made, run and used. I don´t care if it´s regarded as an ad for a certain manufacturer. Thank you, WELT Documentary! :-)
Cranes are the best !!!!!!!! This is why I love being an Operator LOL !!!!!!!
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This is one of the best of these videos. Hugely informative and entertaining. If I had seen this 30 years ago I would have considered it as a career. Impressive machines!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
No... it is nowhere near the best, or even considered quality.
Second that. Learned nothing
Nah this documentary was quite underwhelming imo. Why are there three different voices speaking and why are they using film music lol? Way too dramatic and not enough information.
I've always loved cranes when we would visit my Grandparents in Brooklyn we passed Bay Crane and see the big cranes in the yard next to the water I'd be facisnated they're so cool.
WHAT is going on with the music? Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, The Matrix … nevermind the odd music choice, doesn’t it cost tons of money to use them?
So-called crawler crane
So-called mobile crane
So-called weather protection roof x2
So-called hoist limit weight
So-called telescopic parts (five so-called telescopic parts)
So-called revolving platforms
So-called documentary
So-called documentary
“This is my ‘so-called’ wife.”
“These are my ‘so-called’ kids.”
“Together they are my ‘so-called’ family.”
Lmfaooo yoo im watching this like this the third time their bringing up that they gotta remove the roof wen are they gonna take it down already n im like did he really say so called weather roof n as I'm writing this comment he goes and these parts are moved on these so-called rotating platforms lmfaooo this guy is "so-called" the narrator of this documentary
I couldn't agree more with this "so-called" comment. The "so-called" documentary is "so-called" interesting but "so-called" annoying. Is it "so-called" or is that what it is?!🤣
LOVE TO WATCH DOCUMENTARY LIKE THIS. BEACUS I DRIVE A 17 METRE TELESCOPE HANDLER FORKLIFT. USE TO BE DRIVE 360 .ITS KIND OF FORKLIFT + CRANE. LOVE IT !!!
Being a crane operator is the best ever. Love my job and life...
...until your woman goes crazy and leaves you....
How did you get into that job?
The pay is amazing too right.
@@skullettrump3424 I suppose that depends on your definition of amazing.
Unless you have a woman who loves cranes too... ConExpo for the 7th time coming up in March !!!
Them boys got lucky to go to the Liebherr Factory in Germany... not many Americans get sent there... usually we just get a week long commission on new cranes in the States unless it's a specialty crane size like a new LR Model or 800 ton and above .. I'll stick to my 400 ton Hydro...lol
Interesting job, i have been doing it in some years on the small and big cranes, not as big as this one.
Lots of responsibilities, lots of stress. Long days, and it is going to be like this almost every day, and sometimes in weekend. It is a very good job for the people who has no family (life) to take care of.
Good salary, but you dont have actually time to spend the money.
Speaking the truth.
This so called documentary was pretty good
this was a giant liebherr commercial, but these things ive always been curious about.
So you missed the Tadano crane then..?
@@Penguin_of_Death ....mind you, the Tadano is just a cheaper version of the Liebherr, so - technically - it's still an ad for Liebherr, who probably sponsored all or part of the documentary anyway.
For interested parties, this is a top shelf presentation. Excellent.
I had to watch dark knight after this documentary. They should have used a different soundtrack.
The supports on a mobile crane are called "Outriggers".
"You take the left, I'll take the right, it's all the same to me" lol
If he doesn't know the difference between left and right, could be some interesting times ahead as a crane operator.
that made me chuckle
Interesting especially since "free documentaries" channel has same start, figure its all one production company doing the doco's and spreading them out as seen this place already just not to in depth stuff
I just spent 20 hours over the weekend,watching a massive Sarens crane installing rd bridge sections on a project in s Wales in the u.k , lots if wasted time issues, but also a pleasure to witness.
Everything in the industrial world is "hurry up and wait".
They should have given us some info on the power plants for the mega cranes.
Why does the narrator overuse the word ‘so-called’?! This seems to be a theme in all of his/these videos.
Agreed, it's a crane on crawler tracks, there is no "so-called" about it
also but wait theres a problem, a common use in these videos
@David F that's two words LOL
This awesome. Love the cranes. Thank for that
the most amazing part of this video was being able to clear Rage Against The Machine for the soundtrack...
A very uplifting video.
I only admire your people because you're not evil...evil is what I respect
"A crane operators major characteristics.......(physical fitness)....LMFAO, they must not have got that memo!
Scotty...Lol.....The operators I've been around just sit on their ASS ALL DAY LONG
S lit HEY ITS HARDER THEN IT LOOKS 😂😂 im also someone who sits on his fat ass all day
@@juskillz5229 least you admit it jus lol
That's a long Liebherr advertisement!
They offer a lot of big cranes. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have real interest in other crane types cranes like smaller tower cranes - here others like Potain offer much better hardware than Liebherr, with a faster winch and a higher jib in the same class, zinc coated instead of painted.
This is awesome
Eddie wailed that car with a tree branch! 😂😂😂
I wish there's a documentary on bigger cranes like the LR 13000 or the ALE SK10000
The Craneplaces must be compacted!!!!!!!!!!
Best job in construction industry is crane operator
"Bolt" = Pin. "Bolt Extractor" = Pin Jack. Bolts are fasteners and are threaded.
Definition of bolt
1a: a lightning stroke
also : THUNDERBOLT
b: a shaft or missile designed to be shot from a crossbow or catapult
especially : a short stout usually blunt-headed arrow
2a: a wood or metal bar or rod used to fasten a door
b: the part of a lock that is shot or withdrawn by the key
3: a metal rod or pin for fastening objects together that usually has a head at one end and a screw thread at the other and is secured by a nut
4: a roll of cloth or wallpaper of specified length
5: a metal cylinder that drives the cartridge into the chamber of a firearm, locks the breech, and usually contains the firing pin and extractor
6a: a block of timber to be sawed or cut
b: a short round section of a log
So NO. A bolt does not necessarily needs to be threaded...
@@Guds777 I accept your alternative definitions but in this case the term "bolt" does not apply to a pin designed and used to connect crane Jib (not "boom)" sections .
waite so please show universal evidence to support this? From my experience there are different terms used for the same thing depending on where you are and who you talk to.
@@benmac7315 Simple Engineering terms understood by a first year apprentice.
waite simple engineering terms where you are. Go elsewhere and I can assure you there will be other simple engineering terms. The use of the English language is not identical everywhere around the world. Different areas use different terms to mean the same thing and in some cases different engineering specialties use different terms for substantially the same thing.
Nice documentary. Thanks. Also, i learned that having it down to the centimeter, weren't accurate enough. We need it down to the meter. :-D
I like this video
I lake This is. Good con Cratuletion🌄🌍🎆
Holy crap, I feel terrible for Hans Zimmer. I thought his career was going really well I didn’t realise he had resorted to writing scores for low rent crane documentaries.
Legos ... You date yourself , young one. Erector set is more accurate , for us older guys.
I was always a Meccano guy myself.
Lego - they are already plural, it's just Lego
2:24 pirates of the Caribbean
I am from Germany and very proud of engineering in these machines. I would feel in safe hands with these gentlemen handling my large erection
10:50 this concept is insane
Medieval cities were built without cranes hard to imagine
No they had cranes
What POLARITY is the ROPE GREASE ????
At the company X-mas party, dancing with Debbie to, "No need to ask who's the crane operator."
Awesome but could have done without the crazy soundtrack.
v nice
It's not a bolt it is a clevis pin. A bolt has a screw thread, get it right mate, ask an engineer, hey?
Bob Eden the Germans they call them bolts, I’m not sure why but I’ve worked with many in assembling cranes, I used to be confused but eventually got used to it
A bolt with a thread is a screw.
@@benildoalexandre255 what ever works for you, hey?
@@julianreverse A bolt with a thread is closed by a nut hence "Nuts and Bolts" A screw has no nut!
Gotta love the "so called" narrator.
and his "so called" narration.
Of the "so called" documentary.
About the "so called" cranes.
Please tell me im not the only one that hears " the medallion calls" in this video
terrible editing. the transitions were too much. relax it’s not an action movie bro
Yep. These Doco's suck..
Amazing
Would like know……In What year was this documentary made?
Thanks
music is annoying and too loud
suddenly 007 music kicks in... what the......... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So how much did Lego pay that one guy. 3 times in 3 seconds. Impressive
The crane tipping over at 1:13 might have been the one in South America which tipped over because the slave driver didn't want to waste time laying down wooden mats which the crane was supposed to spread the weight of the crane on. The log in the computer was disconnected. Like a black box in a plane ,it can be analyzed to see if the crane was overloaded.
No I was wrong. It's in Italy. 27:23 they show it again. But it seems like they overrode the computer. When the computer detects something outside of the crane's operating parameters it would only allow the crane to lower the load.
So called
Seems more like Mecano than Lego to me.
*Meccano
Whose LR 13000 was being built?
Great video! However, the writing could use some work.
I love the “So Called” use of Rage Against The Machine on the soundtrack...
heard pirate of the Caribbean also haha
Why is everything "so called"... It's like saying "This is, supposedly, called a jib". Does the narrator not trust the person who wrote his script? "These are called outriggers.. I guess.. If you want to believe that.. I personally don't..".
Fish
The narrator has a good grasp of the obvious! Lol
The music in this video Sounds like theme music from pirates of the Caribbean lmao
We got a Brand New National Boom Truck on the Job and the Operator pulled the out Riggers UP while the BOOM was still Extended on the side of the Truck.....YEA THE OPERATOR IS NOW KNOWN AS FLIPPER....FLIPPER WAS FIRED IMMEDIATELY.
I like Liebherr better than Manitowoc/Grove/National/Potain anyway, and I prefer all terrain mobile cranes rather that truck mounted mobile cranes/"Boom trucks", but use whatever kind of crane suits your application.
Also, that sounds like an incompetent operator! (Obviously) How much did the crane cost? (Besides way too much!)
Hoist limit weight...in the states known as a ATB or Anti two block....
This isn't in the states though. You do know there are other countries out there...yes?
A2B
Why do I wanna watch Dark Knight Rises all of a sudden...
Is this from free documentary
Ha! I couldn’t believe my eyes when i saw those electronic Crane cards, for that state of the art gigantic lifting monster, were kept in a tatty cardboard box someone could sit on and squash! and not a foam lined aluminium/hard plastic one.
😂
3:30 before they even begin to get into the machine.
@~6:15 was that a person tossed out of the cab?
All this is kid's stuff compared to marine cranes -- on- and offshore.
Exploring the limits of physics, Wow I thought this was about cranes but it appears to be also about the LHC at CERN. Maybe you over egged it a little there.
Ahh the american official units of measurement. The football field
Football pitches, as in Soccer. Not an American football field.
Dude, he said "pitch" - i.e. proper 'football', not 'American football'
If I had to order a super expensive mega crane. I'd have it painted in some strange colour. Like extremely offensive pink, or bright neon green. Just to annoy people.
Kranplätze müssen verdichtet sein ! 😁
Ex"c"eptional spelling on Exceptional and Engineering at 2:19 but great video.
What about a camera 🎥 on the top of the krean ( see the vocabulary ).
Hans Zimmer made the sound track?
More like they stole Hans Zimmer's soundtrack for Dark Knight Rises. Unless they're not making any money off of these videos, in which case, usage of this copyrighted material is a matter of "fair use" or something, they sought permission to use this music.
37:00 Anyone ever heard of a camera that is mounted at the top of the boom and directed by the crane operator to assist in giving first hand information where otherwise the operator can't see? Really???
Yes...I've even seen cameras on fork lift carriages
yep...and as soon as the weather turns sour (snow, sleet, freezing rain etc) you see dick f**k all on the camera monitor. Much better to stick to verbal commands via radio.
A picture of these cranes next to a giant ‘U’ and Trump still couldn’t find Ukraine on a map
Biden was suppose to show him, then suddenly a blank look came over his face as he wandered off with a little kid, a ball gag, & a gallon jug of lube, right before falling down the basement stairs.
PIRATES soundtrack 28:00
2:15 "engineering"
"Exceptional" "Engineering"...
@@jeffgordon9549 Thank you! I'm looking at that and wondering if this some weird German spelling or something. LOL
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His German ass was eating that new seat in that new crawler lol. I shizer!!!
Two whole weeks training, that makes me feel a load safer. Incidentally we have a liebherer fridge freezer it's useless at lifting.
Two weeks with this crane but they've had way more training on other cranes.
thats why they cll it SWL safe wroking load; oh, did i smspell something?
@@johnhenninger1980 dude lay off the dope and get some sleep.
I hear the cranes are useless at freezing
Mr. Narrator you have it all wrong! Those parts of the crane are called; the jibs; the pullies; and pins; not bolts, or ‘so called’ anything else, if you don’t know the name ask someone who does know it
Awesome but commercial is too much irritating.!!!
A so called tumor I grew while listening to so called for the so called millionth time... WHY?
I noticed 2 min in
....I think this is so called psychological torture...
The most important aspect: KRANPLÄTZE MÜSSEN VERDICHTET SEIN!
Ehre!
How much $ does something like that cost
considering that the new 5-axle all-terrain mobile crane (Demag/Grove 550XLD_ which we just recently delivered from Massachusetts to Newfoundland & Labrador had a customs invoice value of ,U$ 1,350,000, it wouldn't surprise me that this Liebherr Crawler crane checks-in at about 3 Mio Euros (and the small Tadano probably cost about 500.000 Euros when new. That explains the hourly rates these crane-operators charge these days (in Canada a mid-size mobile crane operator charges about C$1,500/hr (calculated from/to the operator's home-terminal)
Why in these videos do they say " the so called ...", when that is the precise, technical name of the part?
probably, because the average viewer is not familiar with these components and would maybe misunderstand the meaning of the true terminology. But, I agree with you (and most of the other commenters) that the narrator definitely overdid it.
it's all good until computer goes crazy and only Liebbher has to come to fix it $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
The : so called, wonder what it's really called. 😱
I love how they steal music from every movie. 😂 I'm surprised they don't get screwed for copyrighting
Who was responsible for the music in this video tracks from both Pirates of the Caribbean and the Matrix.....
Is this an ad for liebherr??? Not that I mind, I do not own shares of liebherr -lol-
So you missed the Tadano crane then..?
Liebherr is my favorite crane manufacturer, but I also like Tadano and Demag. ALE/Mammoet cranes are cool, but those are crazy gigantic specialty cranes.
@WELTDocumentary Did you really license the Command and Conquer soundtrack? 43:25 Who even owns that?
Yes that's 👍 ok
This just glorified commercial for a couple European Companies crap. Other manufacturer's like Lampson here the USA had Lie bert had already built a gaints crawler cranes called Transy Lift s they two huge crawler assembly's the. Crane site on it travel with a picked load.
Construct o bots, generation X has been patiently waiting for you.