Lifting Notes — Crane Buying Guides & Maintenance

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Practical notes from twenty years of selling and servicing lifting equipment.

Most buyers specify by tonnage. Tonnage is the wrong starting point. Start with load, radius and ground bearing pressure instead.

Track wear and slew ring backlash cost more to fix than most buyers budget. Here is the inspection order we use on our own yard.

Configuration, radius measurement and the difference between on-outriggers and on-tyres duty. Get these wrong and the LMI will not save you.

The crossover is usually somewhere around floor seven and month four. Here is how to work out where it sits for your project.

A maintenance contract looks like an expense until you price a week of an idle crane against a contract penalty. The arithmetic is not close.

Broken wires per lay length, core protrusion and diameter reduction. Three measurements that decide whether a rope stays in service.