Different Types Of Crane Rentals Vancouver Island

By Roger Walker


Lifting of loads is a very important in any construction or industry. This aids in movement of goods or materials that are need from the source to the place they are needed. However, it is quite tasking to do this just by use of human labor. The use of crane rentals Vancouver Island has helped ease the lifting thus saving a lot of time and reduce the accidents.

An overhead crane is a smaller sized lifting machine. It is also known as a bridge crane. It is put over a horizontal beam where it moves along. It has a hoist and hooks and is used to lift smaller loads. It finds its uses in industries, where loads can be lifted and moved from a place to another. It is a material handling systems.

A truck mounted machine is a hoist mounted on a moving truck. This truck is able to provide mobility to the lifting machine. The hoist is referred to as the boom and the truck is known as the carrier. They are joined together at a place called a turntable which adds the swivel movements to boom. This offers more mobility and they can be used in almost any position and place since they can be driven to the location.

The crawler crane is a machine mounted on a carrier that has conveyor or crawlers. The crawlers are used to provide the short need movements during the lifting exercised thus increases the precision. The crawlers can be used on soft ground where the other cranes would sink and loose stability that is the main cause of toppling over. It also does not sink because it has a broad surface area thanks to the broad and long conveyors.

A floating machine is a machine that is mounted on a pontoons or barges that can float on water. They are used on ship construction and bridges. They might be used in under water construction like oil rigs. They can also be used to salvage sunken from the ocean floors since they can float.

There are cranes fitted in helicopters. They almost work as overhead cranes but they have more degree of movement thus can do a wide variety of lifting. It can be used to access remote and inaccessible areas where other cranes cannot access. It normally is used mostly for rescue purposes and in the army.

Tower cranes are mainly used in construction industry in Nanaimo, BC. They are used to lift materials to the topmost part floor where the work is being done. This is done by use or ropes or wires which are attached to an arm that is usually horizontal to the vertical steel support structure that is fixed on the ground. It employs the balancing of weights by changing the distance arm in relation to the centers.

A telescopic crane is crane consisted of a boom that is powered by hydraulics. The boom is made up of several arms that retracted inside each other. These arms under hydraulic control might be precisely controlled, either to elongate of shorten to the required length. They are mostly used in short term constructions and rescue missions that have a considerable small lifting load. They might be made mobile by mounting them on trucks too.




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