Cranes for contrast

I don't recall ever seeing a Shuttlelift Carrydeck crane  before today's find. A little research reveals that it is a Manitowoc brand name, offering a range of small mobile cranes: https://manitowoccranes.com/en/cranes/shuttlelift-carrydeck/shuttlelift-products/shuttlelift-carrydeck with cargo deck. This one appears to be the CD3330F model with a 8.5 ton(US) capacity boom and a 14,000 lbs deck capacity.

I couldn't get nearer due to the puddle in the foreground. A slightly larger puddle in the background, called Halifax Harbour, separates this little unit from a lift boat in the far background with a 1500 tonne capacity crane. An interesting contrast.

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Famous Truck hits Halifax

You Tube star Sergei Dratchev and his famous Kenworth 305 touched down in Halifax today. The heavy hauler has built quite a following for his in depth You Tube posts. Nice truck too.

Based in Cambridge, ON Sergei has his own You Tube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBPUpF6S1LFdKi3ZIve60gA

Also at Fairview Cove today was another aircraft fuselage. Total Transport + Rigging hauled the trailer out of the terminal using a big Navistar.

Addendum

Also on site was this Liebherr. I'm not sure how this will be configured when it is ready to go on the road. Seems a bit high, but if the boom is lowered it will be too big an overhang at the end.

Not to be outdone, Atlantic Tiltload showed up a bit later to take over a couple oversize crates.

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Lucky Catch

It helps to have keen eyesight - not to mention luck - so that you can get into the right position to grab a photo on the fly. All that happened this morning at the Fairview Cove terminal when I spied an odd truck emerging without a trailer., but

Turns out to be a wrecker from Lindsay Milne's Roadside Assistance from Kentville, Nova Scotia. I have no idea what brought the big Pete in to Halifax, but I am glad I got the picture.

http://lindsaymilnesroadside.com/

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Seeing Stars

There seem to be a lot of Western Stars on the road these days, and that's a good thing! They are particularly plentiful around the Fairview Cove container terminal where a lot of interesting RoRo and heavy cargo comes in from Europe.

This small Liebherr crane was recently arrived from Europe and was in transit by Total Transport/ Mills'  Western Star and well used four axle trailer.

Working across the street Atlantic Tiltload had this Star on hand to move a portable building to make more parking room for idled buses.

Equipment Express of Ayr, ON had a shrink wrapped boiler to move. The company must have several similar trucks. This one is number 311, and I saw 320 here  week or so ago.

On close inspection I realized that I got Armour, Sunbury and Midland trucks in the same picture, although in the background. I don't know who runs the Cat powered Peterbilt.

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Right Hand Drives

It is unusual to see a right hand drive vehicle, but to see two of them within minutes is indeed a rare occurrence.

First up was this cute little street sweeper. Much smaller than the usual rig, it must be used for pathways and trails or other roadways that are too narrow for the bigger units.

The RAVO is a Dutch manufacturer, part of the Fayat Group, a French company. Very well known in Europe, they are fairly recent arrivals in this country. The RHD configuration allows the driver to cosy up to curbs where most of the road grit accumulates over the winter months.

Somewhat larger in scale is this well used European Volvo that I discovered driving around near the Fairview Cove terminal, so perhaps it had recently arrived from Europe. it didn't appear to have local plates or permits.

The rig was also equipped with an unusual looking Multlift body.

The plates it did carry were "SF 53 WFD" .

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Cranes for Crane - Part 2

Work continues dismantling a Potain tower crane that came down during Hurricane Dorian (see Part 1, September 27.) A second large crane has now been raised to assist in the work.

 This one is a Manitowoc 440 ton crawler with lattice boom. I estimate the boom to be about 300 feet.

The Manitowoc model number is 14-440T-03, 16000. A number of cranes of this type are advertised on line for sale or rent, the nearest in Mississauga, ON another in Syracuse, NY. I imagine R&D Cranes brought this one in especially for this project.

There are "smaller" cranes on the job too, including a Grove 9000-02, used to assemble the crawler and a Grove GMK 5240 (no clear view of this one for a photo.)

The mast of the Potain tower crane is still resting against the adjacent building, but since this photo was taken it has been lashed to the structure of that building. That building was under construction, but work has now been suspended.

The red arrow shows where the mast clipped another adjacent (occupied) building on the way down.

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Heading Home

This Volvo with its 90m articulated boom is heading back to Europe after a time in Canada as a demonstrator. It was spotted near pier  23 waiting for its ship.

The boom was built by Janneniska OY in Finland. They have now established themselves in Canada, and no longer require the unit. The Janneninska Group is the parent company of Bladefence Canada Ltd which  specializes in wind turbine repair and maintenance. Bladefence set up in Canada in 2016 with an office in Toronto, but services the whole country. (That is one of their smaller units in the left of the upper photo). Bladefence Canada currently operates a fleet of more than half a dozen units ranging from 90 to 105m.

I first saw the crane truck truck just before Christmas 2016, shortly after it came ashore.

The Volvo chassis is a 5x4 with twin steer axles forward, tandem drive axles and a trailing axle at the rear.

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