According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, over the last two decades, the average age of the American worker has increased by almost three years from 39.3 to 42. More notable, however, is the average within blue-collar industries.

Over the last decade, the world has benefitted from technological advances that allow for widespread access to information. The field of arboriculture is no exception; a plethora of training and safety information is available at the click of a button.

UK-based Premier Platforms has become the latest rental company in the UK to enter the spider lift rental market.
The company has taken delivery of a new Hinowa 17:75 MK2 at its Thirsk depot in North Yorkshire. The 17:75 offers 7.5 metres of outreach at an up & over height of 7.8 metres with a 230kg unrestricted platform capacity, on a machine that weighs 2,230kg and can pass through an 800mm doorway. The unit was purchased from Hinowa distributor APS

Just as you wouldn’t take an exam without studying, a road trip without glancing at a map or bake a cake without checking out the recipe, the planning stage of any project is arguably the most crucial step.

Imagine a hectic morning. The overhead crane operator arrives late. He knows he’s behind when he starts his shift, so he quickly rigs a plate that he needs to move to the next workstation. The rigging isn’t quite centered, and the load swings as the lift starts. The flustered operator slows the lift to compensate for the swinging. Then, snap. The wire rope breaks, and a bad morning turns into a disastrous one.

After a severe thunderstorm tore through Ontario on Saturday, crews of arborists worked late into the night cleaning up damaged trees.

The storm’s extreme conditions and gusts of winds felled trees that smashed homes and left nine dead Ontario on Saturday. Tait Sala, director of Cohen & Master Tree and Shrub Services Ltd., was one of the arborists working to clean up after the storm. He said crews would be cleaning up damage for weeks.

Tandem lift for Vernazza Autogru’s Demag lattice boom crawlers

Italian crane service provider Vernazza Autogru used its CC 3800 1 and CC 6800 Demag lattice boom crawler cranes, plus a Tadano TC 2800 and AC 250-1 for secondary duties, to disassemble an old gantry crane at the shipyard facilities of Italian yacht builder The Italian Sea Group.

on Lambert and Philip Oldfield aren’t your ordinary American blue collar workers.

For one thing, six-figure annual earnings aren’t out of the question in their trade. For another, both work higher in the sky than kites usually fly.

They launch about 6:30 a.m. each weekday. That’s shortly after they arrive at the job site adjacent to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. There, a 486,000-square-foot hospital expansion is underway.

Here’s six tips to help your outages and turnarounds go more smoothly.

1. Make up your mind – Much of outage rigging is on the critical path. The earlier the rigging contractor is chosen, the more consistent and efficient the delivery can be. In the case of specialized rigging and transport services, more preparation and planning time usually means safer, faster, and more elegant solutions.

Takeuchi introduces the new TB2150R, a 15t excavator with a fixed boom arrangement and reduced tailswing design.

“The design of the TB2150R makes it an exceptional platform for applications that require more compact dimensions and powerful performance,” said David Caldwell, national product manager for Takeuchi.

UK lifting frame manufacturer reports increased demand due to modular construction.

Modulift, the lifting equipment specialist based in Dorset, UK, reports high demand for its custom made frames across Europe and the UK over the last few months, particularly in the modular buildings market.

SENNEBOGEN’s tree care handlers are setting the pace for productivity and jobsite safety in arboriculture.

With the introduction of our newest machine, the 728, we’re offering our customers the perfect mix of weight, size, and reach in tree removal equipment.

Houses are needed everywhere. All kinds of cranes can help build them. Julian Champkin reports.

There are very nearly eight billion people alive on this planet and the number is rising. Every one of them needs somewhere to live. Residential housing is not going to go out of fashion any time soon. Building those houses will be a continuing need.

Production of Mammoet’s previously announced 6,000 tonne capacity SK6,000 super heavy lift ring crane is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2022.

Offshore wind energy will be a primary target market for the new giant. The Netherlands-headquartered international heavy lift and transport specialist said it will allow offshore wind projects to be completed under entirely electric power, even in the absence of a suitable grid connection.

The GRCS (Good Rigging Control System) is a winching and lowering system so easy-to-use and functional that you'll wonder how you ever finished a job without it!

The topic is Safety – on Tree Talks, a series that covers key industry topics in tree care and forestry. Safety is a mindset and all about practicing routines according to our experts Dan Groves & Ann Elisabeth Jacobsen.

How to build a. Roman Aqueduct?

Roman aqueducts were underground for most of their length, so they were easier to maintain, as well as being less expensive to build. The beautiful arcades that we can see in the remains of some of them, served to save the terrain accidents that could not be solved in any other way. Many times for the construction of these arches the dry sitting technique was used, which is also known as bone rigging.

The number of electric construction equipment products on the market is increasing steadily with almost half of 2022 launches being electric and as many as 140 non-combustion machines introduced in the past 14 months, according to an analysis by KHL Group.