[Pavel314[_2_]]

There's a construction project going on next to my office. They recently used a big yellow moveable crane to construct a fixed tower crane, picture at

http://s1346.photobucket.com/user/pa...g.html?filters[user]=136208277&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0

What's the advantage of the fixed tower crane over the moveable one? I suppose it's because it can lift and lower things anywhere in the site without needing wide open spaces to get close enough, but thought someone here may have a better answer.

Paul

[Don Phillipson[_3_]]

"Pavel314" wrote in message
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There's a construction project going on next to my office. They recently
used a big yellow moveable crane to construct a fixed tower crane, picture
at

http://s1346.photobucket.com/user/pa...g.html?filters[user]=136208277&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0

What's the advantage of the fixed tower crane over the moveable one?

Better power to weight ratio seems the chief benefit, and might mean
lower operating costs as well.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

[Arthur Conan Doyle]

Pavel314 wrote:

There's a construction project going on next to my office. They recently used a big yellow moveable crane to construct a fixed tower crane, picture at

http://s1346.photobucket.com/user/pa...g.html?filters[user]=136208277&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0

What's the advantage of the fixed tower crane over the moveable one? I suppose it's because it can lift and lower things anywhere in the site
without needing wide open spaces to get close enough, but thought someone here may have a better answer.

The reach, load rating and the fact that most tower cranes can build themselves
up much higher than a mobile crane.