cranes
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Monster Machines: The World’s Biggest Hammerhead Crane Can Lift An Entire 747
Many of today’s seafaring megastructures would be nigh on impossible to build without the lifting assistance provided by dockside cranes. As we continue to build ever-bigger systems we’ll need ever bigger cranes, like the gigantic hammerhead from Kone.
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Monster Machines: The 71m Tall, 4600-Tonne Crane That Builds Aircraft Carriers
Aircraft carriers are, how to say, big. Building them is a lot easier if you have a really, really big crane. Meet Big Blue. She’s the largest crane in the western hemisphere, and she’s hard at work piecing together the new Ford-class aircraft carriers in Newport News, Virginia.
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$4000 Crane Lamp Is A 1:50 Scale Model Of The Real Thing
Standing nearly 2m tall, the Crane Lamp by former Lego designer Charlie Davidson is supposedly a scale model of the largest crawler crane in the world. The huge crane portion of the lamp sits by the wall and hoists up a glass-tube light sculpture over the centre of the room.
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World’s Tallest Mobile Crane Is Also World’s Strongest
The blades of the world’s biggest wind turbine don’t just sprout from the impeller like leaves. And at 364 tons, you’ll need a pretty hefty crane – like the Liebherr LTM 11200-9.1. It’s is strong enough to lift three of them simultaneously.