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| Kevin Robbins posted |
Roy Baird This has the weight of the parts of the crane... https://www.bigge.com/.../Manitowoc-31000-Preliminary... [It also has some assembly diagrams.] A typical weight is 5.5 million pounds. (source)
Testing the crane has more photos
(Update: A Science Channel episode on the building of the stadium. They were supposed to show another episode of Mega Machines on the 31000 itself the same night. But they didn't.)
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| Brandon Storie posted A year ago today, the 31000 stood tall for the first time outside of Manitowoc. |
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| Nate Ramsden posted |
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| Comment on above posting. [Note the mats to help spread the weight on the ground.] |
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| Brandon Storie posted Old news now but this photo of Chunjos 31000 and 18000 was in Cranes today mag. |
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| Ben Stalvey shared the South Korea project [The comments discuss the sale of a 31000. It is not clear to my if it was this one imported back to the USA or the Maxim crane below that help build two stadiums.] |
Ben Stalvey posted two photos with the comment: "It's Manitowocs Mega Drum for the massive 31000."
This is probably not a 31000, but it is certainly a big ring crane.
2013 For Sale for $22m. There are a lot of nice pictures of it working at a refinery. And some of it disassembled. I wonder if this is the one that went to Korea.
An animation of how it is assembled. Unfortunately, it doesn't show them coming off a truck trailer so I still don't have a good feel for what size loads are being carried on the highway. It obviously has a lot of hydraulic rams that are only used just for assembly.
The 31000 is done helping to build the new Atlanta Falcons stadium, so we will probably be seeing pictures of it being dismantled, starting with its tip. It takes 130 truck loads to haul the crane. (Update: Ray Little It took 138 yo get it out of the Falcons Stadium, mostly permitted loads too. (source))
But first, some context. Here is a video about the trusses it raised for the new Atlantic Falcon's stadium. It makes me glad that I did not work in an industry that started each day with a "hay-ra-ra be safe" meeting. I hate meetings where everyone already knows what is being said. Where you can practically predict the next platitude that is coming out of the guys mouth. This time-lapse video is more interesting.
Tony Reis posted six photos with the comment: "She's coming apart." It will take 120 truckloads to haul the crane to the storage yard. The booms come apart in lengths that fit on regular length flatbed trucks. And each counterweight is a smallish, albeit heavy, truckload. It looks like the parts for the booms and the counterweights are on their way.
Andy Johnson posted four pictures:
Tony Reis posted 13 photos with the comment: "About to wrap it up," The yellow cranes in the stadium are no toys.
Tony Reis 15 shifts and over 130 loads it is done!
Brandon Storie has an album of 235 photos of the 31000's first job from assembly, to building, to disassembly. One tidbit I picked up from the picture comments is that the ring on the crawler platform is 40 feet. I include some overviews below to provide some context.
This photo sequence posted by Ray Little shows some different pieces and how they fit on a flatbed trailer.
Ray Little posted
The 31000 in Korea must have done its job and now it is for sale. I'm including 18 of the 27 images because I'm not sure the link is permanent. And because it shows it was building a plant and not a stadium.
Ben Stalvey posted six photos with the comment: "The massive 31000 Manitowoc. Manitowoc largest crane 2,535 tons. Picture are thanks to member Ray Little"
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| Steve Meadows posted Atlanta stadium Ben Stalvey The big bad 31000 Tony Reis It is in Atlanta during the build Joe Jenkins was there Barry Garret was over the build. 2,125,000lbs in counterweight in series 5 as the picture shows. On that job 262' of main 118' of luff. [It can lift over 5 million pounds, but only 2 were made before the 2008 recession. And one is in Korea. The machinery to make more no longer exists.] |
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| JJ Novak posted Holy moly..what's this? Jeff Lesley 31000 Ryan Ramage Whats the capacity on it? Dan O'Neal 2535 tons |
This is probably not a 31000, but it is certainly a big ring crane.
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| Steve Meadows posted Here's another good on of the 31000 making a 1,100,000# pick [Lots of counterweights because they are shoved out about just half the possible distance.] |
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| Iron Jim posted It's been an awesome experience to work with and next to this beautiful crane. |
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The 31000 is done helping to build the new Atlanta Falcons stadium, so we will probably be seeing pictures of it being dismantled, starting with its tip. It takes 130 truck loads to haul the crane. (Update: Ray Little It took 138 yo get it out of the Falcons Stadium, mostly permitted loads too. (source))
But first, some context. Here is a video about the trusses it raised for the new Atlantic Falcon's stadium. It makes me glad that I did not work in an industry that started each day with a "hay-ra-ra be safe" meeting. I hate meetings where everyone already knows what is being said. Where you can practically predict the next platitude that is coming out of the guys mouth. This time-lapse video is more interesting.
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| Brandon Storie posted 31000 aux tip, good for 220t! Dustin McGovney All that line laying in the mud... Roy Walters I hauled that Tip that went to Korea 3 years ago. When I was called to ask if I'd haul the boom tip to Houston to load on a ship, I laughed, & said we don't haul boom section!! Then they told me what it was, I'd show you a pic on my trl but lost 40 pics in a old phone. The 31000 is beyond huge! [The line pull is 55 ton.] |
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| Iron Jim commented on the above posting |
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| 1: But this crane is so big that even the boom parts are tall and wide. Note that in the distance a yellow crane is holding a detached piece of the boom. And the people look like ants. It looks like the boom is twice as high as a man and three times wide. 12x18 feet is certainly and oversize width. And if they don't have some sort of well flatbed trailer, 12' can be an oversize height. |
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| 2: Now they are down to disassembling the "guts." |
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| 3: again, notice how the yellow crane is helping to take pieces off the 31000 |
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Tony Reis 15 shifts and over 130 loads it is done!
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| From Brandon Storie's Photo Album Booms are being built. |
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| From Brandon Storie's Photo Album Buid is finished and the booms have been raised. |
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| From Brandon Storie's Photo Album Here is a better view of that 668.7 ton roof truss module. I wonder how many truck loads of parts are needed to assemble a module. |
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| From Brandon Storie's Photo Album Her first big lift! |
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| From Brandon Storie's Photo Album |
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| From Brandon Storie's Photo Album Operators read out shows VPC (Variable Position Control) is extended 75 feet to balance 680.4 tons at 1345 feet. Another comment indicated 924 tons of counterweight has been installed. |
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| Roger Krueger posted Photo of Ken O'Leary Manitowoc Training Instructor in front of the 31000 in the Old Manitowoc Crane yard a few years ago. |
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David Kinder posted seven photos. According to the comments, this is the one that was in South Korea or Vietnam. It is now in pieces in a Texas yard and for sale for $22 million. I think the other one that was built is still in pieces in an Atlanta yard. Like the Airbus 380, companies kept building their product line bigger until they built them too big to be economical.
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| Steve Robinson posted Found this one tonight on the web Manitowoc 3100 boom up undergoing testing. To give you an idea of the huge size that’s a manitowoc 2250 300 ton crane in the background. [I assume that 3100 is a typo and it should be 31000.] |
Ben Stalvey posted two photos with the comment: "Chunjos 31000 I had received these pictures sometime ago."
Ben StalveyGroup Admin For those unfamiliar with the 31000. It's Manitowocs largest crane ever made lift capacity of 2,535. Only 2 have ever been made.
David Holman posted seven photos with the comment: "I got to see this beast up close and personal yesterday!!! What an amazing machine !!!"
Steven-Cathy Knier-Zigmunt Built most of the boom on that crane. It picks up 5.5 million pounds.
Steven-Cathy Knier-Zigmunt The luffing jib picks up if I remember correctly 2.5 million pounds.
Ben StalveyGroup Admin For those unfamiliar with the 31000. It's Manitowocs largest crane ever made lift capacity of 2,535. Only 2 have ever been made.
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Roger Krueger posted
Someone was interested in seeing the last 21000 next to the 31000.
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| Brandon Storie commented on a posting Beside a 21000 [He also added Roger's photo above as a comment.] |
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| Ray Little commented on a posting |
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| Mike Cline posted Me in front of the 31000. First one ready for test. |
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| Brandon Storie commented on Mike's posting [I wish I could see how many axles are in the back. It always struck me that the crawler tracks were too big to fit on a regular low-boy. Brandon added other comments showing how other components fit on the 120-140 truckloads.] |
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| Brandon Storie commented on Mike's posting [Lifting a piece of a 700+ foot roof truss for the new stadium in Atlanta. The triangles at the top of the falsework are jacks that will be lowered after the truss is built so that the falework can then be lowered.] |
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| Brandy Williams Smith posted Charlie Page Just found that one of those takes over 200 trucks to deliver on site! Brandon StorieBrandon is an administrator in this group. 2535 ton capacity |
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| Brandon Storie commented on Brandy's posting |
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| Roger Krueger posted Found this 31000 drawing online. |
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| Ben Stalvey posted Hows this for a lift with a 31000 Steve Khail Looks like a containment ring for a nuclear plant. [The comments talk about the lift being so high because it had to go over the foreground tower crane.] |
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| A Korean? name posted Manitowoc 31000 and mammoet 5000tons left the reactor in ulsan korea! Patrick Conway What’s the weight of the reactor.천우진 3200tons Randall Kyson Sirbaugh You know it's a big lift when a 31000 is your tail crane [My thought also, when the 31000 is your little crane, you have a big lift.] Sander Loomeijer I had the luch to see the Mammoet PTC 200DS in real , and i can tell you its BIG https://www.mammoet.com/.../ptc.../datasheet-ptc-200-ds.pdf [The Mammoet breaks down into pieces so that it can be shipped in 196 containers.] |
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| Ben Stalvey shared Wow just look at how small the Manitowoc 31000 looks now... Ben Stalvey: I see a 18000 on site also. Jim Browne: TWIN luffer? That's gotta be the new PTC. [Platform Twin-ring Containerised [simscrane]] Bobby Daniels: And that's not the largest PTC, they just announced Nov. 21 [2020] the 6000 ton. John Dixon: That Mammoet crane was at Petersburg Indiana awhile ago. It's definitely big. I'm thinking it took like 156 trucks for the configuration they had set up |
Steven-Cathy Knier-Zigmunt Built most of the boom on that crane. It picks up 5.5 million pounds.
Steven-Cathy Knier-Zigmunt The luffing jib picks up if I remember correctly 2.5 million pounds.
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| Heavy Lift Productions posted The manitowoc 31000 What's your thoughts on this crane? Only been on 3 jobs in 10 plus years was this a failed design? Was it over engineered for what is does? This is where manitowoc failed in the large crawler market. They should have taken the much more successful mlc650 and should have designed a 1000 ton crawler to compete with the lr11000 from liebherr. Thoughts? Kevin Gauthier: Dane Mcleroy where was this crane, what jobs has it been on? Michael Steed: Kevin Gauthier put the roof on Mercedes dome in Atlanta,then the rangers new stadium in Arlington, now its in Phoenix sitting right off 17 you can't miss it. Rogelio Terrones: Sabine Pass project I believe. Golden Pass LNG. Seen it. Curt Noyes: Used it in Oak Creek Wisconsin in 2006-7. Building of Elm Road Generation Station. [But the design wasn't unveiled until 2009. I wonder if he saw a 21000.] Corey Stewart: I worked a tunnel project in DC and we almost used this crane to lower the TBM down to where the tunnel started. The only reason we didn’t was because of the logistics and massive footprint that comes with this crane…. I can’t imagine how many trucks it takes to build this machine. [176] We ended up using a crane company from Ohio that came and built a mobile gantry with strand jacks to do the lift. Bryan Sonia: Maxim wants good money for it and will not budge. If they would work with customers and get jobs, rather then the extreme long term rentals, crane would stay busy. Quantity over quality. And it wouldn’t rot away sitting in the yard for months or years at a time. I don’t see people complaining about the cost of an lr11000, 11350 or even 13000. [To summarize some coments: the crane is currently in "txmc phoenix."] Jason Holder: We used this crane at TSMC and just crawling it we would have to shut down roads. Charlie Williams: that’s at the chip plant in phoenix az. David Lane: I think the logistics of moving this machine compared to a 11000, 12500, or 13000 liebherr or the 12600, 8800 demag is where it will not be as successful. Plus rumor has it the vpc ctwt created some space issues that the lr11000 did not have. Also, manitowoc is absolutely blasting their parts prices out the roof. And this will cause problems down the line. Riley Anderson: The 31000 that went to South Korea seems to have had a good amount of work. Saying the one here in the US has only had 3 jobs is a little unfair. It took a while for it to get its first job, but all the jobs it’s had have been pretty long term jobs. |
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| Machinery Planet posted Big Red Model 31000 |
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Ray Little posted 30 photos of the Atlanta disassembly and a link to a video about the 31000.
An article that talks about this and other large cranes.
Ben Stalvey posted six photos. The posting has a lot of interesting comments so it is worth clicking the link and seeing if you can see it in a closed group.
Ben Stalvey posted photos as comments.
A 1:48 video about the 31000 that helped build the Mercedes-Benz Stadium. (source)
An announcement of Science Channel shows on the 31000 and its use has some photos in the comments.
A close-up video that I think has the other 31000 in the test yard. He pans by the counterweights and other 31000, then spends too much time on a face. But you can pause the pan. (source)
Lots of photos while it was being tested
TruckTrend article describes the two Cummins engines and the hydraulics and includes 6 photos.
Brandon Storie shared an album of 172 photos of a tour of the Manatowoc, WI factory when the parts for a 31000 were still in the yard.
Brandon Storie posted 23 photos of the cranes working at various sites starting with the test yard..
A 1:48 Facebook video: "Watch: Big Red" (source)
A video of photos that include people so you can get a feel for the scale of the thing.
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Ray Little posted 30 photos of the Atlanta disassembly and a link to a video about the 31000.
An article that talks about this and other large cranes.
Ben Stalvey posted six photos. The posting has a lot of interesting comments so it is worth clicking the link and seeing if you can see it in a closed group.
Ben Stalvey posted photos as comments.
A 1:48 video about the 31000 that helped build the Mercedes-Benz Stadium. (source)
An announcement of Science Channel shows on the 31000 and its use has some photos in the comments.
A close-up video that I think has the other 31000 in the test yard. He pans by the counterweights and other 31000, then spends too much time on a face. But you can pause the pan. (source)
Lots of photos while it was being tested
TruckTrend article describes the two Cummins engines and the hydraulics and includes 6 photos.
Brandon Storie shared an album of 172 photos of a tour of the Manatowoc, WI factory when the parts for a 31000 were still in the yard.
Brandon Storie posted 23 photos of the cranes working at various sites starting with the test yard..
A 1:48 Facebook video: "Watch: Big Red" (source)
A video of photos that include people so you can get a feel for the scale of the thing.
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