80tn crane lifting chart8/8/2023 ![]() Jim met us on site on Saturday Morning and gave me the chance to see Opportunity to chat with Jim Deas of OM Heavy Lifting. ![]() Jeanette and I were visiting a friend in Dundee last week, so I took the ![]() Received the following message from George Brown regarding the old Sparrowġ000-tonne Gottwald now fully refurbished as a 1500-tonne capacity dockside crane. Modification’s the crane is still working as a dockside crane at Dundee port in Scotland Sparrows purchased their Gottwald 1000 tonne Capacity crane in 1980, after many updates and Sparrows’ original cranes were all ex-war department apart one new Coles Crane arrived a few daysĪfter I joined the company, the largest crane was 10 tons capacity. Heavy lifting at that time was done either using Jack up Frames or Gin Poles.Ĭrane Hire was in its infancy at that time and Sparrows were one of the very first to operate a few Sparrows had a 5-ton capacity Michigan truck crane there working for one of the This brought back memories of my early days in 1957 working as a crane operator for Sparrows Crane Hire at the Lower Bristol Road, Bath.Īt that time (1957) the building of the first reactor at Hinckley was in progress, ![]() I was reading about Sarens crane “Big Carl” working at Hinckley Point, capable of liftingĥ000-Tonnes.
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