Baycourt Fly Tower Upgrade

Sunlive caught us in action this morning on Wharf Street starting the Baycourt upgrade with Marra Construction. The new fly tower will make for a far safer Fly Tower allowing set changes to occur more efficiently for staff and preformers. See Cityviews for more information.

Page and Macrae at Work

Quick video montage of the Page and Macrae team moving newly fabricated plant onto Tranzcarr ready for transport to site.

In the pictures the two yellow cranes are our 55 Tonne(GMK3050) and 80 Tonne (GMK4075) and outside in blue is Maximus 170 Tonne (GMK5170).

Panels - Central Mount Maunganui

We had the opportunity to help out Brunel Construction today. Here our Grove GMK3050 places panels cast off site on a portable heated panel bed.

Community Flag Pole

Finally the community flag pole is in place. You can now see it on the roundabout at the intersection of Takitimu Drive and Elizabeth Street. Many thanks to all the contributors to this project:

Farmer Family Trust
Tauranga City Council
Countdown Supermarket - provision of the flagpole
Livingstone Builders - contract management and labour
Cooney Lees Morgan - setting up the flagpole trust
Supacrete - concrete for the base
Thorpe Steel - steel for the base
Beca - structural/civil design
Opus - traffi c management advice and services
Downer EDi Works - digging foundations, traffi cmanagement and installing the Armco barrier
BOP Times and The Radio Network - promotional assistance
Guild & Spence Electrical - lighting advice
TrustPower
Realty Services - cash contributions

and at the last minute:
HEB Structual - Class 2 pilots
Rowe Motors - Trombone Trailer and Transportation
Precision Piloting - Class 1 Pilot.

Offshore Power Boats - 2008

McLeod Cranes again had the opportunity to lift in the NZ Offshore Power Boats at the great facilities of Fort Nautilus Dry Stack. The Dry Stack was built by CBC Construction and formed a great backdrop to these awesome machines.

Moving In - Cayman Appartments

Time to move in at Cayman Appartments - As CBC Construction finish the final touches residents start to move in those larger items.

Steel and Tube Gantry Cranes

Pictured the team at J.J. Niven Engineering Ltd place one of the new Gantry cranes at Steel and Tube, Tauranga. The GMK3050-1 our 50 Tonne Grove was used inside to place the cranes in position. Outside our GMK5130, 130 Tonne Grove was used to raise the cranes to the roof. Each crane weighed in at 12 Tonnes.

Superboat - Light Class

Today we had the chance to lower Addictive (Grant Smith) and Rayglass (Kelly Smith) into the water for the Superboat light class. It was great to have the opportunity to to see these boats up close before racing. I have to say the name Addictive really suits the boat. The sport looks a tonne of fun! I'm really looking forward to seeing them back again in Tauranga. Check out the New Zealand Offshore Powerboad Association website under Team Profiles Superboat Light.

Only an All Terrain please

This work site is a great example of what you can do with the Grove All Terrain Cranes. Here you see the GMK3050 our 55 Tonne all terrian crane in action. The ute is parked on the access driveway which Brian our crane operator was required to back down and around into place. Something he made look really simple. In this picture you can see him lifting a tilt-panel as an eight point lift.