Three Modulift spreader beams were used in a one-over-two configuration beneath the hook of a 350t capacity mobile crane to remove the historic Castle Way footbridge in Southampton, UK last month (September). Lifting and height safety specialist TackleStore Ltd T/A SafetyLiftinGear.com supplied the beams—a MOD 70 and two MOD 12s—alongside slings and shackles. The company […]
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Aug
Aug
Icelandic crane rental company DS Lausnir provided lifting and rigging gear, including a frame made of Modulift beams, to lift a 45t boat into water for the first time at a harbour in Hafnarfjörður on the southwest coast of the country, about 10km south of Reykjavík. Lausnir chose a 250t capacity Grove GMK 5250 (a 2016 model) from […]
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Jun
Jun
Below-the-hook equipment manufacturer Modulift and Siemens Heat Transfer Technology B.V. combined forces to design a special rig for lifting modules that weighed nearly 200t a piece. Modulift sent two rigs for on- and off-load in Korea and Thailand respectively—a total of 16 no. 34t capacity MOD 34 beams in addition to slings, shackles, tie-plates, and […]
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Mar
Mar
Baltic mobile crane rental company Strele Logistics supplied lifting and rigging equipment, including a Modulift spreader beam, as a 49t chimney was installed at a biological waste treatment facility in Kaunas, Lithuania last month (February). Strele accepted a scope of work to load the 35m-long, 2.75m-diameter pipe where it was manufactured at Enerstena Group’s facility, […]
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Dec
Dec
Modulift provided a custom lifting beam, slings and shackles as specialist pipeline contractor Stockton Drilling completed multiple lifts of a 28t, 18m-long tunnel boring machine (TBM) that was working subsea at the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm / Direct Pipe Landfalls (BOWL) project at Portgordon, Scotland. The BOWL project is one of the largest private investments ever […]
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Oct
Oct
A modular spreader frame was centre stage at Pinewood Studios recently as FLG Services, a lifting equipment hire specialist, provided a solution to lift a four-wheel drive vehicle for a top-secret filming project at the iconic location. The Modulift CMOD modular spreader frame was used beneath the hook of a mobile crane as the approx. […]
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Oct
Oct
A Modulift spreader combined with a 45m-long beam attached to a gantry and a crawler crane as 750t monopiles were tandem lifted from pontoons onto land in Cuxhaven on Germany’s North Sea coast. Schmidbauer GmbH & Co. KG was challenged by Cuxport GmbH to develop a solution for lifting the monopiles, bound for the Nordsee […]
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Jul
Jul
Spanish crane rental company Gruas Deca S.A. has rigged a mobile crane with a one-over-two below-the-hook solution from Modulift to replace roof sections at Estadio Municipal de Balaídos, the stadium of La Liga football club Celta Vigo. The 650t Terex Demag crane with 60m telescopic boom was used with a MOD 110H and two MOD […]