New Zealand based contractor Fulton Hogan has taken delivery of the first 120 tonne Tadano Mantis GTC-1200 telescopic crawler crane to arrive in the country.

The new crane has gone straight to work on the Waimea Community Dam project being built by the Fulton Hogan/Taylors Joint Venture. The $105.9 million project is aimed at resolvin..

Truck mounted lift fire
A telescopic boom truck type work platform caught fire on Thursday when it contacted power lines in Waco, Texas.

The platform was brought done once the power was disconnected but is a complete write off

A big crawler crane owned by Buckner Heavylift Cranes overturned at a wind farm in Sioux Falls, South Dakota earlier this week.

The crane, a recently delivered 1,000 tonne LR11000 - was working on the Prevailing Wind Park construction site for sPower near the town of Tripp in Hutchinson Country.

The..

A five axle All Terrain crane overturned (25/09/2019) yesterday while working alongside an electrical substation in Melbourne, Australia.

Superior Cranes, Inc., Rockingham, N.C., recently purchased the 1,375 USt (1,250 t) capacity class Demag CC 6800-1 crawler crane for its operations in the United States. With few crawler cranes in this class size operating in North America, the acquisition gives the company an advantage with lifting opportunities requiring specialized high-lift ..