LIFTING
SITE REPORT
39
NOVEMBER 2013
ACT
“We will run a series of factory
acceptance tests including strain
gage testing, main boom and jib tests
and operational tests on our crawler
transporters and the hoist,” Lampson says.
Stemp says the testing regimen is
stringent and will comply with the
Japanese Legislation for Cranes and
Mobile Cranes (JIS), European Union
Big tests
F
olks who live in the Tri-Cities
area of Pasco, Kennewick and
Richland, WA are used to the
huge crane booms that punctuate the
skyline at the headquarters of Lampson
International. But every now and then,
the company fully erects one of its super
cranes, which are veritable masterpieces in
the realm of crane engineering.
When one of these big cranes starts going
up, people pay attention. Shortly after the
crane was erected, I received an email
from Ron Williams, CEO of WHECO,
headquartered in nearby Richland, who
wanted to make sure we knew about what
was going on at Lampson’s plant in Pasco.
“I am home for a couple weeks and see in
my back yard a new Transi-Lift 3000 fully
erected,” Williams said. “It is awesome and
may be a good story for
ACT
.”
Giant project
It indeed is a good story for
ACT,
and we
have been following the progress of the
crane for more than a year. When we were
compiling our “Super Cranes” article for
the September issue, I spoke with Kate
Lampson, public relations director, who let
us in on the secret that the new unit was
complete and that testing would begin in
October. Hence, we have the exclusive on
the new crane and the spectacular photos.
In September, Lampson crews began
assembling the crane, which was
commissioned for work in the nuclear
industry in Japan.
According to Head Engineer Randy
Stemp, the crane takes about six weeks to
fully erect, and required four assist cranes,
including a 350-ton crawler, a 230-ton
crawler, a 150-ton crawler and a 60-ton
rough terrain crane.
Now that the crane is assembled it will
undergo a full battery of testing.
EN13000 and US ASME B30.5 standards.
“It will comply with all of these standards
so we can achieve worldwide certification
on the crane,” says Stemp. “We will make
a series of tests including main load falls,
jib, and auxiliary hoists to verify the
operational and structural competence of
all components.”
Testing will take about three weeks.
D.Ann Shiffler
exclusively
reports that Lampson
International is testing the
latest version of its
LTL-3000 super crane.
The testing regimen for the new Transi-Lift LTL 3000 is stringent and will comply with the
Japanese Legislation for Cranes and Mobile Cranes (JIS), European Union EN13000, and US
ASME B30.5 standards.
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