Crowland Cranes meet extreme confined space challenge with REID Porta-Gantry
13 November 2009
Crowland Cranes were recently contracted to complete the challenging installation of a 2.5t pressure vessel into a newly built on site pump house for main contractor William Bailey.
Due to the late delivery of the vessel by the manufacturers the building was constructed first, which proved a verytight problem for the installation of the vessel. Crowland Cranes approached REID lifting with an exacting challenge and specification and with just a few emails and phone calls, drawing iterations checking and double checking the measurements, REID presented a slightly customized Porta-Gantry system to fit the room dimensions exactly with
literally a few mm to spare and eking out the maximum height of lift available in such a space.
The restriction of both the building dimensions and the vessel size once it was within the building, made it a very tight operation but with the aid of this lightweight, portable Porta-Gantry and the fact that the unit can be easily dismantled and re-assembled on site in such confined working space, the job was successfully completed by Crowland to the satisfaction of all
The vessel was moved inside the building on its side and raised into the vertical position, using both a lorry crane and the Porta-Gantry system. Once the unit was inside, the Porta-Gantry completed the final lift. Once the vessel was vertical in the building, the Porta-Gantry was stripped down, moved within the building and re-assembled, the vessel was then skated into position, and the Porta-Gantry completed the final lift from the skates and lowered the unit back down onto the ground for final fixing.
Crowland management comented;
“The job went well and the client was very impressed with the Gantry. We now have the Porta-Gantry system within our companys' equipment portfolio, enabling Crowland Cranes to offer customers more options to the daily tasks undertaken when lifting and moving equipment.”
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