Argentian drum lift wins TopLift Award

ALE has won the ‘TopLift’ contest for the lifting of three coke drums, weighing 435t each, using a lattice boom crawler crane in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Announced in the December 2015 issue of International Cranes and Specialised Transport magazine, readers of the magazine had been voting over the last few months to determine the readers’ favourite lifting job.

ALE beat stiff competition from several other heavylifting companies to win the award for the YPF Refinery coke drum lift which took place from May-October 2014.

The lifting job was selected by the magazine for the challenges it faced during the lift, where ALE were working to install drums measuring 42m in height within very little space and small working area filled with obstacles such as trees and buildings. Because of the client’s schedule, the heaviest pieces needed to be lifted during the windy season.

ALE’s Argentina branch used a 1,350t capacity LR 11350 crane with P boom in four configurations to optimise the maneuvers in the space available and minimise any tree cutting. In order to reduce the ground bearing pressure when performing the lift, load spreading mats of the AL.SK crane.