Left before the sun came up yesterday to set up a 550 ton crane at a new electrical substation. It takes 4 semis of weights and peripheral equipment just to set up this behemoth. A giant piece of electrical equipment was in route. As I understand it the set up/tear down cost just to get the crane on the job is at least 20K. After working a few hours setting up the big boy, Mid America showed up and said the truck bringing the giant transformer/switch gear had crashed and we might as well tear down and call it a day...
Same crane as this...
Mid American or Alliant? The electrical company I work for gets sub contracted out to install the control buildings in substations for Eaton Power Company. I got a call today asking if I could do the install in Tiffin in 2-3 weeks because the semis hauling the buildings crashed into each other and Alliant refused all three buildings and they were returning to Omaha.
A month ago we did a job in Gloucester, MA outside of Boston. They had a 770 ton crane set up for us. I think they said that was $50,000 each time to set up and tear down. They had to bring the buildings on a barge into the bay and crane them off the barge. $200,000 to bring the buildings from New Hampshire via barge.
The smaller crane in the background is on the barge. Once the barge gets in place the crane picks up a couple pylons sets them through slits on the barge and uses those as anchors.
