Comments on: Gigantic Telescopic Tower Crane

By: JOn

JOn — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:34:37 +0000

As if the Democrats aren’t.

By: jsk

jsk — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:34:28 +0000

There was some discussion regarding the origin of this crane. It is de facto a Grove crane, which is an American company. However Grove bought the crane production of German Krupp at mid-90s and all engineering of Grove GMK cranes is originally German. I think the crane discussed here has same background as it has a Mercedes Benz diesel and other features common with the German product line. Cheers and happy holidays!

By: DanielS

DanielS — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:52:22 +0000

Very Cool Crane!
I’m almost more impressed by the responses that a post about crane’s generated.
These are time’s to be made an example of. Inventiveness will be the saving grace of this generation, I just wish that a lot of you obviously smart people, would put this effort into a new product or avenue of interest, instead of feeding the trolls.

Being a contractor, I’m always impressed by some of the feats of engineering that it takes to get the job done. I just doesn’t seem like it would have a large enough base to be lifting heavy loads that tall, but obviously it does! Very Cool!

Oh and @ fk,
Caps lock still looks like childish yelling, if you want to be taken seriously, display it.

By: craneguy

craneguy — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:06:43 +0000

If you think the GTK-1100 is big, you should check out Manitowoc’s new 31000 crawler. It arrives at the jobsite on about 90 trailers and requires two assist cranes to assemble. It can lift 33 times more than the GTK – 2,535 US tons.

By: Wingnut - the Tshirt Up Guy

Wingnut - the Tshirt Up Guy — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:09:53 +0000

Heh, this is a funny thread. Cool crane.

And @FK USA isn’t communist… we’re on the brink of being socialist (a step in the direction of communism) thanks to the recent bailout(nationalization?) of the banks by the government… and the health care/tax plan Obama has talked about.

I may be wrong here as I’m just a stupid USAer… but shouldn’t you be a little worried about the USA going into a depression? I’m fairly sure if our economy fails it isn’t going to be very good for the rest of the world… Especially because in our death throws we might freak out and do something stupid… like invade Iran :P

By: enough said

enough said — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:49:27 +0000

you’re right. its awesome that it takes multiple cranes to put together one. it shows how it takes other resources to make this crane come together. you must imagine that whoever designed this must be making bank not only off the main crane but extra cranes. its really a engineering and financial feat :)

By: fk

fk — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:33:04 +0000

U.S.A ONE OF THE BIGGEST COMMUNIST COUNTRIES , WITH POLICE AND ARMY , AND NOW WITH NO FUTURE , BECAUSE OF RICH ALWAYS HUNGRY FOR MONEY DEVILS AND HOLLYWOOD DRUG ZOO WITH THOSE WHO DO ANYTHING TO BE POPULAR (MY FRIEND ADOPTED BABY AND NOBODY CARES WHY )ETC ETC … , BUT SOON THIS GOT TO STOP.

By: HATE@EMAIL.COM

HATE@EMAIL.COM — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:29:32 +0000

The US Government has betrayed the american people (and the world). Republicans and rich capitalists are guilty of treason. America isn’t number one in much of anything. And we won’t be again unless there are miracles.

By: Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:28:44 +0000

Awesome, let’s go attack someone else, not the Jews this time? Oh well anyone else will work just as well.

By: Ry

Ry — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:28:03 +0000

Wow, what a bunch of pricks, all of you. hurray for flaming people online yay! Aren’t we all just so smart and so much better then X! I know, let’s go beat up people who are different now, I’ll go grab Hitler you guys get started and we’ll be there in a minute.