Maxim Crane Works, L.P. and Crane Rental Corporation have teamed up for a heavy haul project in the Northeast US. Maxim?s 100-tonne capacity Link-Belt HTC86100 hydraulic truck crane assembled Crane Rental?s 700-tonne capacity gantries multiple times to provide turnkey transport for an over-dimensional load.

The bullet tank was 13 ft wide, 11.5 ft high, almost 90 ft long, and weighed nearly 300,000 pounds. Crane Rental loaded the vessel with 700-tonne capacity gantries onto 15 lines of Goldhofer modular trailers inside the building where it had been hydro tested and heat treated. Next the team transported the load out of the building, down the road and through a tunnel with only 1.5 inch of clearance. Maxim?s 100-tonne capacity crane re-assembled the gantries to load the vessel from the modular trailers to a railroad car.

Once the railroad transported the vessel with two idler cars, Maxim assembled the gantries again for Crane Rental?s team to lift the vessel from the rail car and load it onto the 15-line modular trailer for transport to the site. Finally, the Maxim crane assembled the gantries a fourth time to offload the vessel at its destination.