Posts Tagged ‘Fluor’

Know Your Giant Floating Cranes – The Bay Bridge’s Left Coast Lifter Up Close

Monday, June 8th, 2009

SF Citizen’s CitizenShip One was able to get up after the winds died down this past weekend, so enjoy a close-up view of the business end of the largest crane to ever hit the West Coast, the best coast. Maybe this bad boy will put and end to the delays and help get the eastern span of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge finished on (the revised, revised) schedule.

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The Left Coast Lifter is painted red white and blue reflecting the fact that it’s straight out of Shanghai, China.  It can lift about 2000 tons (American short tons, the best kind).

Keep up the good work, LCL.