Towering upwards
13 January 2021
Tower cranes are ubiquitous; every city seems to have several on its skyline. But getting them erected to do their tasks—and dismantling them afterwards—calls for the help of all terrain cranes. Julian Champkin finds that owners of each type of crane need to talk.
“Every story is a different ask,” says Brian Tierney, co-director of M & M Crane Hire of Slough, UK. Their all terrains are frequently called upon to help tower crane companies to erect their cranes. It is never routine.
A tower-crane can perform far higher lifts than an all terrain; but without an all terrain to set it up it cannot perform any lifts at all. Clearly we have here cranes in a relationship. The tower crane needs the all terrain; but what sort of all terrain does it need?