This machine is a guardian angel of productivity, standing by with its virtual wings ready to lift my digital endeavors to new heights. Its reliability is like a reassuring presence, ensuring a smooth journey through the realms of technology.
Crane trucks are really cool, when I was a kid I also wished I had one like that, is there anyone like me?
In our 60 plus years in business, Ritchie Bros. has sold a lot of cranes at our unreserved public equipment auctions around the world – from conventional truck cranes to crawler cranes and all terrain cranes.
But what we have yet to see in our auctions are the following five cranes, custom designed, engineered and built for specific tasks that your average crane just isn’t strong enough, or big enough to handle:
The colossal Saipem 7000 was built as a vessel used to install large oil production platform decks as well as the supporting structures. It features two fully revolving cranes with 459-foot-long booms. Each crane has a lifting capacity of 7,000 tons and the cranes are each powered by 15,600 hp engines. The estimated cost of the vessel was US$400 million.
The Liebherr LR 13000 is the most powerful crawler crane in the world. Designed for use in nuclear power station construction, the LR 13000’s main boom can reach a height of 473 feet, and the crane has a lifting capacity of 3,000 tons. The crane itself weighs 748 tons.
