"The Reed & Reed team provided outstanding support and guidance throughout the entire process of planning and executing the lift,” said Dennis Masse, area manager of service trades at Bath Iron Works. The equipment is very reliable and capable, and we get great support from Manitowoc to help make our applications work for our clients.” “They are the workhorse cranes for wind turbine assembly. “We’ve been very pleased with our Manitowoc cranes,” said Mark Buckbee, director of the bridge and marine division at Reed & Reed. Reed & Reed has a regular stream of work for its 16000s, mostly for the construction of wind turbines. It chose the Manitowoc 16000s, the largest capacity cranes in Reed & Reed’s fleet, because the lift required two matching cranes for uniformity and simplicity. The company has been working with Bath Iron Works since 1928, when it was founded. Woolwich, ME.-based contractor Reed & Reed oversaw the lift, which included renting the cranes to Bath Iron Works and supplying their operators. The completed vessel weighed nearly 14,330 USt. Finally, the cranes lowered the 155 ft long by 60 ft tall deckhouse onto the ship’s hull. Twelve nylon straps held the deckhouse while the barge was moved out from underneath it and the ship, which weighed 13,228 USt, was floated into place underneath. The deckhouse was lifted from a barge to 89 ft in the air and held in place for three hours. The crawler crane features a 315 ft boom – though, for this lift it was rigged for 157 ft – an EPIC control system and a closed-loop hydraulic circuit system, which enables independent, variable-speed operation of the swing, load hoist, boom hoist and travel functions.
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The two Manitowoc 16000s were setup to lift at their full capacity, requiring the use of MAX-ER attachments, boosting their capacities to 440 USt.
The deckhouse contained the ship’s bridge, command center and battle room. Along with two of the company’s 331 USt capacity gantry cranes, the two Manitowoc crawlers lifted a 992 USt deckhouse off of a barge and set it on the hull of the ship. The lift was part of a project to construct the Navy’s next-generation DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer warship. This past December, Bath Iron Works broke its own heaviest lift record using two Manitowoc 16000 crawler cranes to pick nearly 1,000 USt - more than double the weight previously lifted by the shipyard. Manitowoc Crawler Cranes Perform Record-Breaking Lift Crane Company: Manitowocīath Iron Works, ME.-based company and a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation has been building warships for the U.S.
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