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Cantilever Crane

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Cantilever Crane 

a hoisting crane with a swing or fixed cantilever, along which a hoisting trolley moves. Cantilever cranes are used primarily in shops of industrial enterprises and in closed warehouses. Load capacity of cantilever cranes ranges from 4 to 10 tons.



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Below, Brian with fellow worker, Tadey Zellwak, in the 1970s; MAJESTIC: The 250-ton Electric Cantilever Crane, known to everyone as the Hammer-head crane, towers over the shipyard.
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