LR11000

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.