Technical Cranes Ltd supplies BBRT – Scotland Craneage for New
Facility
Technical Cranes Ltd were awarded the contract of supplying Balfour
Beatty Rail Track Systems with new craneage and gantry steelwork for its
new Scottish facility. What was formerly Edgar Allens, sited at Bathgate
relocated during 2008 to a new facility at South Queensferry.
A total of 1100 linea meters of gantry track was supplied and installed
with support haunches throughout 10 different bays on the site, complete
with a powerfeed conductor system.
These gantries support a total of 19 cranes ranging from 5 tonne to 20
tonne for a wide range of applications such as foundry use, fabrication
and workshop maintenance.
As part of the contract the redundant craneage at Bathgate was taken in
part exchange.
The cranes were all fitted with Itowa Winner radio control systems that
Technical Cranes Ltd are UK agents for. Ongoing service and maintenance
will be handled by A & B Crane and Electrical, a division of Technical
Cranes Limited that serves the north east and Scottish boarders.
Technical Cranes relocates Bradford Cylinders Lifting Equipment to
new facility, which extends to over 6000 square metres. It is a
historical move as Bradford Cylinders had been at its original site for
over 100 years.
The project involved supplying Bradford Cylinders with a refurbished 10
Tonne SWL Loading Bay Crane and Gantry and installing 4 bays of floor
rails for Goliath type cranes totalling a travel length of 250 metres.
The cranes are electrically fed by bussbar systems suspended at roof
level from the portal steelwork.
Nine overhead cranes from the old works at Allerton Road were removed in
phases to minimise disruption to Bradford’s production. They were
brought back to our Rotherham works to undergo modification and
refurbishment.
Each crane had Goliath legs manufactured and where necessary the spans
were altered to suit the new rail centres. Each crane was overhauled and
any worn parts were replaced.
Inverter control was installed to the long travel motion of each crane
to give a slow and controlled start up and slower and safer travel
speeds.
The cranes were also fitted with a flashing light, Claxton and Itowa
overload protection devices.
Finally before reinstallation each crane was fully cleaned and painted.
On completion of the commissioning the cranes were issued with a report
of through examination and put straight back into production ready for
the next 100 years.
Technical Cranes Limited help to increase production and efficiency
for Trackline International with the
introduction of overhead craneage.
The contract involved fitting out the main fabrication bay with a 110
metre long free standing gantry suitable for a safe working load of 20
tonnes complete with a powerfeed system. The cranes installed were fully
reconditioned and consisted of a 20 Tonne, 16 Tonne and two 10 Tonne
safe working load twin beam cranes with 19 metre spans.
Technical Cranes service also included for the design and installation
of the foundation pads for the gantry columns to sit on.
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