The most spectacular damage however was the collapse of a tower crane that draped its boom over a nearby building and left its mast leaning against the same building.
Removal and clean up will be a lengthy and complex operation, and a variety of equipment has been mobilized to handle the job. One particularly impressive piece of gear is the Grove GMK 6400 all terrain crane owned by R+D Cranes of Dartmouth, NS (a division of Cherubini Metal Workers).
Boom stowed in the conventional position, the crane appeared to be newly arrived from the factory in July.
Manitowoc introduced the GMK 6400 model in 2017 and is rated at 400 tonnes, 450 tons (US) and has a self-rigging auxiliary hoist. It has a 60m main boom and a 136m maximum tip height.
The crane requires a dolly to distribute the load sufficiently to travel on Nova Scotia roads. Gross vehicle weight is 72,000 kg or 158,730 lbs.
The tower crane that came down was manufactured by Potain in France, and has been used on other projects in Halifax.
(2014 photo on a different project)
A major street in the area, and several businesses (one block from my house) remain closed until the remains of the crane can be removed.
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