Incredible Video: Watch An Immense Liebherr Crane Lift A 756,000lb Generator 360 Feet Into The Air And Position It With Precision


Incredible Video: Watch An Immense Liebherr Crane Lift A 756,000lb Generator 360 Feet Into The Air And Position It With Precision

We’ve showed you big before here on BangShift but this is big on a scale that we may have never broached in nearly 15,000 stories on the site. This is big in a mind boggling way. This is big in every possible dimension. From height, to width, to weight, to scope, this video of a Liebherr LR 11350 crawler crane lifting the massive generator portion of a huge windmill into place will make you appreciate both the machine and the job it was doing when filmed. The object it is lifting weights three quarters of a million pounds. The height it is lifting it is 360 feet in the air. There’s 350 tons of counterweight hung off the back of the crane to keep things happy when the machine is loaded. Oh, and there’s one dude with his hands on the joystick in the operator’s chair. Think he gets paid well? WE DO!

This is a nicely done three minute video that is short on flashy effects, music, and dash but long on the things that you are looking for. Killer camera angles, lots of quick snippets that revolve around positioning the piece to be lifted and what it actually looks like hanging there hundreds of feet in the air. The thing that impressed us the most about this whole operation was watching the huge crane crawl slowly and steadily into place with the generator suspended over its massive support column. Maybe we shouldn’t be impressed with that but the fact that this thing has the stones to move itself and over a million pounds just in the weight on the boom and the counter weight is pretty amazing right? That’s 700 tons not counting the weight of the actual crane itself!

Simpletons we may be, but the feats that engineers are able to accomplish by doing the math will always amaze us. Absolutely flipping awesome.

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE THIS PRECISION BEHEMOTH LIEBHERR CRANE IN ACTION – STUNNING VIDEO


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3 thoughts on “Incredible Video: Watch An Immense Liebherr Crane Lift A 756,000lb Generator 360 Feet Into The Air And Position It With Precision

  1. 383Duster

    Damn…………glad this wasn’t one of those “hey watch this ginormous crane with a 238 million ton payload” crash into the harbor. Awesome…

  2. Fiatdude

    Mammoet just did a lift in SoCal at one of the refineries — 1,200,000 pounds — got to work on it — crane took 3 months to build — did nine lifts — and 3 months to disassemble was a nice job — — This machine has about 5 times of the capacity of the one in the video — for a sense of perspective the shackles on the top spreader bar are almost 6′ tall —

    http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/ss306/Fiatdude/20140506_170353_zpstl4fclql.jpg

    http://i586.photobucket.com/albums/ss306/Fiatdude/20140507_120918_zpsyfp3vjaq.jpg

    Use to be able to embed photos — can just do links now — sorry

  3. D Scott

    260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tons of coking coal and 300 tons of iron ore then the manufacturing process and all the transportation to get the parts to the site and assemble it. That turbine could spin until its rotor blades fall off and it will never produce more energy than it took to build it. And the greenies want to take our cars away

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