Overhead cranes and hoists are used for lifting heavy loads. Other lifting devices include slings, portable lifting stands, gantry cranes, and derricks. Extra equipment is necessary to secure loads to ...

Cantilevered jib cranes provide either full or partial rotation. Davit cranes have fixed or adjustable booms, and may be portable or stationary. Gantry cranes vary in size from small workstations to ...

Floor or foundation-mounted jib cranes have higher load ratings than wall-mounted cranes. A cantilevered jib crane can incorporate full or partial rotation. Gantry cranes have a horizontal beam and ...

How do scientists follow an impressively long bird migration? They give a crane a GPS. A team of scientists used small GPS leg bands to follow 104 of these wading birds as they traveled across ...

A global collaborative study of four species of crane has shed light on the way that migrations are finely tuned to unpredictable and complex environments. A team from 10 countries combined novel ...

What has been created is the LEGO equivalent of a timber mill, with the various machines served by an overhead gantry crane. The cucumbers are trimmed to square, before being transferred to a saw ...

WorkSafeBC says it is investigating a crane incident in Vancouver's Oakridge neighbourhood, two days after new provincial regulations for tower cranes came into effect. A spokesperson said in an ...

After another shark sighting earlier this week, Crane Beach in Ipswich will remain closed to swimming to people and pets. According to Mary Dettlof, the spokesperson for the Trustees who oversee ...

Emily Crane is a general assignment reporter at the New York Post. She has worked as a journalist for 15 years at various online, print and broadcast publications. She completed a bachelor of ...

Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), who enlisted in the Navy after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and deployed three times as a SEAL, told members of the bipartisan task force investigating the ...