Worsley WA

Louwai (Bryan) · #1 10-12-2010, 05:05 PM

Had to slip over to Worsley, south of Perth, this week.

While there I took these photos. Seems that the "small" crane was in a position where they couldn't drive it out.

The "small" crane being lifted is a 75t capacity crane. Physically about the size of a bus.

The large crane doing the lifting is a 750t capacity crane.

marki · #2 10-12-2010, 07:28 PM

You should have seen some of the monsters cranes around when we first built the Worsely plant in the early 80's.....1000+ tonne lifting capacity. The biggest land crane I ever saw was on the burrup (karratha) being the gotwald which could lift 2500 tonne when mounted to a concrete ring. Funny thing was it got to the burrup a bit early with its 3 crane drivers, 6 semis full of spares and 12 full time riggers and spent the first week lifting scaffold planks (20kg) one by one

. Not to worry though it only cost $1800 an hour back then

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Mark