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Mobile and Crawler Cranes: Illustrated History Books & Guides

Explore the best illustrated books on mobile cranes on wheels and tracks. Discover the history, models and evolution of mobile cranes with lattice and telescopic boom and tower cranes.

Turmdrehkrane: Über 100 Jahre auf Baustellen in aller Welt

Tower cranes are used everywhere, whether it's building a house, a skyscraper, a bridge or a power plant. They supply construction sites with iron, concrete or other building materials and have fascinating technology with incredible performance data. Load capacities of more than 300 tons and ranges of up to 100 meters are possible.

Stephan Bergerhoff, Heinz-Gert Kessel and Pius Meyer have taken a thorough look at the world of tower cranes. They document the past 100 years with numerous illustrations and technical drawings.

Product details

Author:Stephan Bergerhoff, Heinz-Gert Kessel, Pius Meyer
Details:166 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:510 b&w and color photos
Language:German
Publisher:Verlag Podszun (D, 2010)
ISBN:9783861335603
Book cover: Turmdrehkrane: Über 100 Jahre auf Baustellen in aller Welt | Podszun

Turmdrehkrane: Über 100 Jahre auf Baustellen in aller Welt

Language: German

Terex-Demag: Auto- und Raupenkrane

The mobile cranes are the stars of the technology scene. When they extend their supports, point their telescopic booms towards the sky and build their lattice masts to dizzying heights, people are amazed.
Michael Schauer presents the telescopic truck cranes with lifting capacities of 30 to 700 tons and lattice boom cranes with lifting capacities of 50 to 1600 tons, which work at heights of more than 200 m.

From the contents:

- Terex-Demag telescopic truck cranes AC 40, AC 40-1, AC 50-1, AC 55, AC 80-2, AC 100, AC 395, AC 120, AC 120 -1, AC 160-1, AC 200-1, AC 200-1 TP, AC 300, AC 1200, AC 350, AC 1300, AC 400, AC 1600, AC 500-1, AC 500-2, AC 650, AC 700

- Lattice boom truck cranes TC 2500, TC 2800, TC 2800-1, TC 8000, TC 3200

- Lattice boom crawler cranes CC 2200, CC 2800, CC 2800-1, CC 6800, CC 8800, CC 8800-1.

Product details

Author:Michael Schauer
Details:144 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:390 b&w and color photos
Language:German
Publisher:Verlag Podszun (D, 2009)
ISBN:9783861335139
Book cover: Terex-Demag: Auto- und Raupenkrane | Podszun

Terex-Demag: Auto- und Raupenkrane

Language: German

Spierings mobiele torenkranen

Anyone familiar with cranes and construction sites will notice that mobile tower cranes, especially from the Dutch brand Spierings, perform much lifting work today. Spierings is a national and international leader in this growing market. The Spierings folding crane, an impressive technical achievement, rests on a robust truck chassis.

The book is organized into five chapters, covering the history of Spierings, general aspects of mobile tower cranes, key components, assembly and disassembly, and different crane types. Richly illustrated, it provides a clear overview of the development of mobile tower cranes and Spierings' role in it.

Product details

Author:P.M. Mulder
Details:176 pages, 8.25 x 8.25 x 0.59 in (21 x 21 x 1.5 cm), paperback
Illustrations:extensively illustrated
Language:Dutch
Publisher:Uitgeverij de Alk B.V. (NL, 2023)
ISBN:9789059612686
Book cover: Spierings mobiele torenkranen | de Alk

Spierings mobiele torenkranen

Language: Dutch

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