A few of my Tower Crane pictures.

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My first post so straight in with the pics. These of the Favcos that are being used on the pinnacle in the City of London


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And a comedil CTL400 on the shard tower


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And a few older shots of various cranes


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[Holger]

Wow the Favco and Comedil are very impressive. Thank you Neil!
How high is the white one on the last pic?

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Im not entirely sure. This crane was up on the 54 Lombard Street project in 1990. What I do remember is at the time it was the highest freestanding tower crane to have been erected in this country. I guess it also still is. The two green Potain luffers were originally erected on the Battersea power station site but were never put into operation due to the project being shelved.

Here are a few more of that crane

[modelman093]

[quote="topkit"] but the nice thing is you can back notch them on slew where as most others you can't,

Great pictures - please explain "back notch"!
Angus

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A couple more taken yesterday of these Favelle Favco cranes on the pinnacle project. There are now 4 in place. 2 will be external climbers and 2 internal climbers as this tower rises. Massive Tower Cranes.

[samk706]

great pics Neil

That white luffing tower crane in the back ground of pic 1 & 2 looks HUUUUUUGE!!!!!

sam

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That is the Heron Tower which is around 45 floors in height. That crane is a Comedil CTL400 and the one to the left in the picture below is slightly bigger still and is a CTL630.




Believe it or not the Favco's are building a 65 storey tower so you can imagine the height they will end up at.

[Jack]

Some incredible Pictures there, Thanks.