Crane on the move

[Steve Frazier]

On a recent trip I came upon this crane being lowboyed. We don't see this too often around here. Notice no escort, there was no chase vehicle either. Not sure how they were able to do that.

 

[td25c]

Thats a good picture Steve.We have moved crawler cranes like that in the past,but not long distance and we allways had a chase vehical in the rear.I have no idea if it is legal,We only moved them a short distance with 50' of boom.Let the boom down on the tail of the loboy with cribbing under it,and chain it down.The thing that looks unsafe in the picture is the load under the boom.I cant tell if they are trusses,or some kind of jib for the crane.

 

[Steve Frazier]

This was on Interstate 84 westbound just west of the Fishkill exit, first time I've taken a pic on the fly. We were traveling about 60 mph here. I didn't get a look at the contractor name to see if it was somewhat local or not. Being over width and over length I expected to see a support vehicle of some sort.

 

[td25c]

I agree,I would not do it without a chase vehical to keep traffic away from the boom.I will have to keep my camera handy when on the road in the future,you never know what you might see on the road or job site.

 

[insleyboy]

There's no way that could be legal. We did it here in Michigan years ago, with the weighmaster at the rear of the load lights a flashing with 2 trucks next to him for traffic control on the turns. We went to an emmergency job and had police at all major intersections to help as well.

 

[Buckethead]

I cant tell if they are trusses,or some kind of jib for the crane.

Looks like leads, for driving piles.

 

[Raildudes dad]

There's no way that could be legal. We did it here in Michigan years ago, with the weighmaster at the rear of the load lights a flashing with 2 trucks next to him for traffic control on the turns. We went to an emmergency job and had police at all major intersections to help as well.

We've let a contractor working for us move that way a short distance on our road system under a special permit but MI regs say if it can be broken down to make it legal for height, weight or length, no over weight, over width, over height, or over length permit will be issued.

 

[Rick Rowlands]

Thats a piledriver attachment.

 

[JDOFMEMI]

Steve

I see from the sign that you were in a construction area. Do you think maybe it was the hiway contractor moving from one bridge to the next?
They might get away with it within the construction area.

Still surprised to not see at least a rear pilot car due to the overhang.

 

[Steve Frazier]

The crane being transported was not involved in the construction being done, I don't recall what that work was but I'm sure it was minor. I travel that route on occasion and I just don't remember a major project underway. What's interesting is a mile up the road is the Newburgh/Beacon Bridge over the Hudson River and I'm pretty sure he'd be required to stop for an escort over the bridge. The DOT cops would surely pay attention to him there but I was long gone by that point.