News Release
Manitowoc 18000 makes impressive lifts on lock in upstate New York
12/7/2016
A massive project to transport power plant components through the Erie Canal is underway in Schenectady, New York, and a Manitowoc 18000 crawler crane is at the center of the action.
In September, a team of engineers and local union contractors erected the 660 USt crane—equipped with 120 ft of boom—near the end of a bulkhead on Erie Canal Lock 8. Since then, the crane has been lifting 260 USt generators, 197.5 USt turbines and 142.5 USt rotors onto barges for transport to Albany, New York, where the parts are then shipped to various power plants around the world.
Lomma Crane & Rigging rented the Manitowoc 18000 to the contracting team. A sales representative for the South Kearny, New Jersey-based equipment company said that the crawler crane was chosen for its capacity and compact footprint, which enabled contractors to make the lifts from a custom-built crane pad that was engineered by Lomma to fit on the limited real estate of the bulkhead.
The crane will continue to make similar lifts into 2017, helping contractors to move equipment through the Mohawk River section of the Erie Canal that would otherwise be immovable by truck or rail.
The Manitowoc Company, Inc. (“Manitowoc”) was founded in 1902 and has over a 117-year tradition of providing high-quality products and support services that are tailored to customers’ needs. Its 2019 net sales were approximately $1.83 billion. Manitowoc is one of the world's leading providers of engineered lifting solutions. Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Manitowoc designs, manufactures, markets and supports comprehensive product lines of mobile telescopic cranes, tower cranes, lattice-boom crawler cranes, boom trucks and industrial cranes under the Grove, Potain, Manitowoc, National Crane, Shuttlelift and Manitowoc Crane Care brand names.