The cranes for the NY Wheel have finally arrived in Brooklyn, where they will be partially assembled, and then shipped to Staten Island to the site. To get the job done, Mammoet is using their Liebherr LR11350, LR1600, and LR1300. Check back for more progress on this massive job.
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Caught this new Cat 349 on a sewer project along with a few other machines. I've been wanting to get pictures/video of a sewer job for awhile but there just isn't many around where I live. I would love to get some pictures from this job but it is on the opposite side of Staten Island from me. I was looking back at some of my old pictures and came across this picture. It is actually a screenshot from a video which is why there is motion blur in the cars. I like this shot because it shows that even when theres a 600 ton crane setup in the street, you can't stop traffic in NYC. The street itself that it was set up on was closed but it stuck out into Church St., which is a main thoroughfare, so they had to have flagmen and a bunch of barriers blocking it. 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.
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