Popular Types of Cranes

A crane is a part of Hoisting Machinery, the work characteristics of crane is intermittently movement. A crane can be used to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally. It is mainly used for lifting heavy things and transporting them to

A crane is a part of Hoisting Machinery, the work characteristics of crane is intermittently movement. A crane can be used to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally. It is mainly used for lifting heavy things and transporting them to other places. Here are three common cranes used in the construction and other industries:

Truck Crane

The truck crane has many characteristics such as flexible, high speed, rapid transfer, quickly into work after transfer to the job sites due to equipped with automobile chassis; it is especially suitable used in high mobility and no fixed workplace. Crane jib is the major components of the truck cranes. With the development of technology, the crane jib changes greatly in terms of structure, the material, and the type. The crane jib systems mainly include the oval and rectangular form by structure.

Crawler crane

Crawler crane is a kind of self-propelled cranes for high-rise building construction; it is widely used in the field, construction sites, single industrial plant construction and installation of container terminal container lifting operations. The crawler can drive on soft, muddy and bumpy grounds. The supporting area of the crawler crane is wide.

Tower Crane

Tower crane is mainly used for the transmission of building construction material vertically and horizontally and the installation of construction. It has simple structure and it is convenient to maintenance. The cab has the same height with the boom, so the drives have wide vision. The tower crane has two types of booms, one is Horizontal and the other is pressure lever.