These are notes that I am writing to help me learn our industrial history. They are my best understanding, but that does not mean they are a correct understanding.
Nolan Pierce posted
Picked up from the Lexington factory, time to make the 1300 mile trip home! Michael BlackWhere do you need a 3 axle dolly with a 86100? Nolan PierceNorth Dakota. I keep 18,500 lbs in the dollyJim BellCwt. trailer
Nick BarbWhat size machine is this? Just never seen a 4 axle with a dolly before?Nolan Pierce100 T
The company started in 1874 with an invention by William Ewart in Belle Plaine, IA, that allowed drive chains in harvesters to be easily fixed in the field rather than waste valuable harvest season time taking the harvester back to the barn to be fixed. [History]
He formed companies that not only made the Link-Belt, but new machines to use his new drive chain invention. "Around the turn of the decade, these fledgling Link-Belt companies developed the ancestor of today's Link-Belt construction equipment ... the first wide-gauge, steam-powered, coal-handling clamshell crane." In 1936, it introduced power hydraulic controls, later known as "Speed-O-Matic." In 1967, it merged with FMC Corporation, and in 1988 it joined forces with Sumitomo Heavy Industries. In 1998 the excavator business was spun off as the LBX Company and today's Link-Belt Cranes is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Heavy Industries with their headquarters in Lexington, KY. [History]
Their factory has rather modern looking buildings.
Some truck cranes are optimized for efficient travel on highways between projects. These cranes can take advantage of good surfaces at the work site such as a parking lot when Downers Grove High School installed new air handling equipment. Other truck cranes are optimized for dealing with rough ground conditions at the construction site. Then they seem to have hybrid designs that offer various compromises between using smooth roads and rough construction sites. And they also make crawler track cranes.
(new window) "Link-Belt 248 HSL 200 ton (181.44 mt) lattice crawler crane and 248 H5 lift 135 ft. (41.1 m), 120,000 lb. (54 431 kg) bulb-T bridge beams 120 ft. (36.5 m) into the air for a bridge overpass in Phil Campbell, Alabama for Wright Brothers Construction, Inc."
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