This week we look at a self-retracting lifeline from Werner Fall Protection and a truck-mounted crane from Iowa Mold Tooling. Click to begin the slide show.
Related Links: Ford F-150 Will Go Aluminum in 2015 Fleet Owners Stand To Gain From V-6 Pickups Design and engineering teams at Ford Motor Co. have taken what might be thought of as a radically conservative approach to the new 2015 Ford F-150. Aside from a new grille and headlights, the latest F-150 looks familiar. The revolutionary step is the switch from steel to what Ford calls "military grade" aluminum in the body, cab and bed.The payoff is 700 lb in weight savings, which contribute to more efficient braking, towing and increased payload capabilities, topping out at a hefty 3,300
Photo by Jeff Rubenstone/ENR The 1850SJ can go up to 185 ft and has controls almost identical to JLG's smaller boom lifts. Related Links: Overturns and Falls Lead Aerial-Work-Platform Deaths JLG Rolls Out Record-Breaking Boom Lift On JLG's new proving grounds and expanded training center at its headquarters in McConnellsburg, Pa., an 1850SJ Ultra Boom slowly rises to its full 185-ft platform height. The lift is operated via a control panel that is nearly identical to JLG's more common 60-ft boom lifts. Often used in place of scaffolding or ladders, aerial work platforms are now reaching heights typically associated with
Photo courtesy GM The 2015 Chevrolet Colorado (shown) and GMC Canyon rejoin the small-pickup segment. Photo courtesy GM Among the standard features are a super-quiet cabin and such useful options as a 4G hotspot. Related Links: 2015 Chevrolet Colorado Reboots To Capture Small-Truck Buyers Why Contractors Are Buying Pickup Trucks Like it is 1985 Driving the new 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon small pickups reveals that General Motors has put to good use its three years away from this segment.These models have grown substantially in every direction, making them 5.5 in. taller, 6.7 in. wider and 20 in. longer
Photo by Tudor Van Hampton for ENR Concrete is the most produced building material and accounts for up to 10% of industrial CO2 emissions annually. Related Links: Concrete Goes To College MIT News: How To Make Stronger, Greener Cement Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found that portland cement can be manipulated to form stronger concrete that also poses less harm to the environment.More than 20 billion tonnes of portland-cement concrete are produced globally each year, and cement production accounts for 5% to 10% of the world's industrial carbon-dioxide emissions.“If we are to produce a better concrete that
Courtesy Jeffreys Bay Wind Farm South Africa requires a fleet of modern cranes to meet wind-project demands, experts say. Related Links: Nigeria Cement Makers Grapple With New Regulations Wind Developers Active Across African Continent South Africa's construction of renewable-energy capacity and coal powerplants has created new opportunities for heavy-equipment suppliers, especially crane companies, after the government recently approved 64 new projects, valued at $14 billion.South Africa is constructing 3,916 MW of new renewable-energy capacity under the country’s 20-year energy plan, the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme. Also, in Medupi and Kusile, the country is constructing two $18.8-billion coal-fired
Photo courtesy Genie/Terex Corp. Falls are the leading cause of death in construction, OSHA says. Related Links: IPAF's Accident Database IPAF Expands in North America Overturns and falls from height were the two leading causes of aerial-work-platform fatalities globally in the first half of the year, according to new data from the International Powered Access Federation.The data, which U.K.-based IPAF has collected since 2012, each year consistently point to machine overturns and falls from height as the two leading causes of death among people working on or near lifts, with electrocution, entrapment and mechanical failure taking up the balance. In the
Related Links: Left Coast Lifter Arrives at Tappan Zee Bridge New Tappan Zee Bridge Passes Milestone With Pile Cap Installation With just a few feet to spare, the Left Coast Lifter successful squeezed under the 60-year-old Tappan Zee Bridge on Oct. 8 as crews positioned it to begin building a replacement structure.The $50-million floating crane, with a lifting capacity of 1,750 metric tons, was ballasted with about 2.5 million gallons of water inside its roughly 400-ft-long, 100-ft-wide barge, so it could draft deep enough to clear the bridge. Prior to the move, the crane was upgraded with fresh wire rope
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