The biggest crane that I had seen was a Manitowoc 18000 at the World Trade Center site in the foundation around 90 feet below the street and that was for sure cool to see. Recently, I heard from my buddy Dave that a LR11000, which is a 1000 ton crawler, was being assembled or already assembled in Queens at the Arthur Ashe tennis stadium, which is right next to Citi field, the NY Mets stadium. In November me and my brother took a ride to see it and it was about halfway assembled, and since the site is heavily gated and you can't really see in from anywhere, it was hard to get some shots of it. Took a trip to the site today and got there at a perfect time, we got there at 12:30 and the workers were coming back from lunch and then they lifted this massive section to the new retractable roof they are putting up. The LR1600 set a similar section which weighed 125 tons so I am assuming that if they made the LR11000 lift it, it was around 150 tons, or even more. 

While on our way to a car show in Princeton NJ, we seen this land clearing job by surprise.  Looks like they were taking down some trees and widening the road, was a decent size job.  The wide undercarriage and the demolition grapple on this 345 make it look extra tuff! Something I don't see where I live so it's always cool to see these types of jobs

I think we all had enough of this winter already right? If you live in the North East, you definitely have had the unbearable temperatures and the massive amount of snowfall. With winter almost over, I can not wait for it to be shorts weather again.. Throwing this post back to November, when I took this shot, on the SIE of Scaramella's clean Granite doing asphalt work.

I met up with Richie (@ratchetdaytree) and Junior (@juniorsgram) at around 12am a few weeks ago at Atlantic Salt to talk and get some shots of their rigs. These guys have to get there this early and wait on the line that is already long, just to make 3 loads in the day. Both Junior and Richie's trucks are great looking rigs, and I never get to see them since they mainly do work in Long Island, so them hauling 15 minutes where I live, is definitely cool to see!