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Tower Crane Information

  • Q.   What type of project would require a tower crane?
  • Q.   What are the advantages to using a tower crane vs. a traditional mobile crane or crawler crane?
  • Q.   How does bare rental differ from operated and maintained?
  • Q.   How do you size a tower crane for a specific job site?
  • Q.   How would you prepare a foundation for a tower crane?
  • Q.   What certifications are required when installing and operating a tower crane?
  • Q.   What is needed to set the base of a tower crane?
  • Q.   What is the typical maintenance schedule for a tower crane while in operation?
  • Q.   What is the difference in the styles of tower cranes (i.e. hammerhead, luffing, flat top, and self erector)?
  • Q.   What is a tower crane?
  • Q.   How can Bigge assist in financing the purchase of a tower crane?
  • Q.   How does Bigge allow flexible plans in the rental/purchase of tower cranes?
  • Q.   Will Bigge provide guaranteed buy-backs on tower cranes?
  • Q.   Who provides the operating permit?
  • Q.   What kind of information is required to prepare an operating permit?
  • Q.   Who provides the erect permit?
  • Q.   What kind of information is required to prepare an erect permit?
  • Q.   What considerations do you take in preparing for erecting and dismantling a tower crane?
  • Q.   Who/what is needed to erect a tower crane?
  • Q.   What are the steps in the erection of a tower crane?
  • Q.   Who/what is needed to climb/jump a tower crane?
  • Q.   What is the process to climb/jump a tower crane?
  • Q.   How do you brace a tower crane to a building?
  • Q.   What is the recommended free-standing height of a tower crane?
  • Q.   How do you determine the amount of tie-ins to use on a project?

Call Bigge for answers to all of your tower crane questions: 1 (510) 638-8100


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