Col. Sattinger presided over Thursday s ceremony, christening the new Quad Cities crane barge. The barge that this one is replacing, the crane it’s replacing was commissioned in 1986, so we had it for over 35 years, Col. Sattinger said.
Park rangers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provided tours of the new crane barge after the ceremony.
One of those park rangers leading the way was Mike McKean. The good news is this crane likes weight, McKean said. It has the potential to lift 1,000,000 pounds or 500 tons. Now generally it’s not going to need to lift that much and the farther out the crane stretches it has a lighter capacity to lift up.