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.

Harbour Links Last Beam

Well its been a busy week with Fletcher Construction placing the last beam on The NZ Transport Agency Harbour Link Project. Peter McLeod our structural engineer has had his hands full working closely with engineer Gareth Hole from Fletchers planning a very technically complex lift. Maximus (GMK5170) operated by Brian Short and Lofty (GMK5130) operated by Justin Martin with very short outriggers to place a 70 Tonne Steel Beam with the help of Roy Ogle dogging it gently into place. You can read the full story on SunLive or at the Bay of Plenty Times websites. "It will be quite an engineering feat," Harbour Link project manager Kevin Reid said.

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).

Caught in action by SunLive

SunLive were on the scene early this morning to catch us lift a House over a House. Read the full story on their website SunLive.co.nz.

16 Tonne To Harbour Bridge

Early this morning McLeod Cranes placed our 16 Tonne Crane on the Tauranga Harbour Bridge for Fletcher Construction on NZ Transport Agency’s Harbour Link Project. So we took a quick time lapse to capture the lift.

Hospital Chimney

Pictured Page & Macrae work to remove the old Hospital Chimney. In yellow is our GMK3050 and in blue is our 170 Tonne GMK5170. This was the first section of 4 lifts. The last occuring on the 20th June.

20 Tonne Spuds

Pictured the GMK5170 - 170 Tonne Grove Maximus works with Fletcher Construction to place 20 Tonne spuds on a barge in Tauranga.

Piano - Up and Over

Pictured the 10 Tonne lifts a Piano up and over a house for Asset Relocations. This job went very quickly with the setup well organised by the movers.

SH29 Tauriko - BIG SHED

Pictured: BIG SHED at work in Tauriko living up to there name by building a truely big shed, as you can see in the pictures or in driving past on SH29. You reallly see the scale when you step in side of what is going to be quite a landmark on the hill overlooking the new industrial park. John is shown at the bottom driving our TG500m 50 Tonne truck crane placing the last panel delivered by the team at Eagle Transport.

Chapel Street Off Ramp

Fletcher Construction placing the first beams for Transits Harbour Link project. Our 130 Tonne crane with Brian and Roy was used at one end to place the 70 Tonne beam.

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.

Pillians Point Tunnel - Fulton Hogan

Pictured the GMK5130 - 130 Tonne crane works with the team from Fulton Hogan as they place the finishing touches on the Pillians Point Tunnel Outlet.

Stradle Carrier - Wash Bay

Jensen Steel with our 130 Tonne (GMK130) and 80 Tonne (GMK4075) moving the 30 Tonne wash bay at Sulpur Point. Allowing Port Mechanical Services workshop to be extended.

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.

Container Crane Maintenance

I managed to get some great pictures today as the Port of Tauranga carried out maintenance on its container cranes. Pictured below is the 130 with 60 metres of main boom and 18 metres of fly making up a combined 78 metres and one awesome view of Tauranga.

Tauranga Hospital - 130 with Fly

Packing up after a long reach. Here the team is seen packing up the fly after the 130 Tonne Crane ('Lofty') was hired to reach over the hospital to place steel pipe work. Lofty was setup with an 18 metre fly allowing the crane to reach up the 25 metre high hospital and then out 52 metres. It was great job completed safely by our highly skilled operators - Ron, Ray and Roy (Pictured here packing up).

Lofty - Cameron Rd - Another Angle

From the crane here you can see the 32 metre reach with the 8 tonne panel just been placed on site. In using the 130 the client was able to have the crane remain in one position through out the job placing each panel straight from the trucks one after another as they arrived with no delays. 

Lofty on Cameron Rd Tauranga

Here you can see the 130 streaching out 32 metres to place an 8 tonne panel. Great reach. I'll have to look for one like this will all 60 metres of boom.