Did you know we offer rigging inspection services? Our rigging inspection service is very popular with all kinds of customers around Barrie, Ontario and the surrounding areas. As a category, rigging includes nylon straps, chains, wire rope slings. It also includes shackles, load hooks, lifting hardware and sets of chains. Sets of chains are considered […]
Why you should get a remote for your Bridge Cranes? Remote controls for Bridge Cranes are a really good way to improve safety for your workers. Safety is always our number priority. Safety for your workers is the main advantage for using remote controls. But there’s more… Recently we were contacted by York Excavating (York […]
Do we pass or fail this cable on a 40 Ton Crane? It was a hard decision to make. But it was the right one. Sometimes when we do this work, we have to fail devices for safety. Our inspections are thorough. We get right to the point and we make sure that the work […]
Did you know York Region Municipality is our customer? When discussing our Inspection service with a municipality the other day, they mentioned how unique that Crane Tech really is. Not only do we inspect lifting devices but we also repair them. Also, Crane Tech will engineer a lifting device if you cannot find it in […]
There is a lot to consider when looking at a bridge crane drive problem. We look at the location of the drive wheels for starters and if they are pulling the crane or pushing the crane. Pulling a load is easier for the drives than pushing the load. Did you know that when a bridge […]
One of the main reasons is because we offer our local customers a unique approach. Crane Tech has developed specific modules for safety training in Ontario. These modules are interchangeable for different industries and public works departments. Also, unique for quarries throughout the Ontario towns that we service, including Barrie, Innisfil, General Toronto Area, Peterborough […]
When Crane Tech Services works on your equipment, we ensure we are matching the paint perfectly to make it look fresh and new! Did you know that paint is a very important part of the inspection process? Short of the body shop, there are few inspection services that work so hard at paint […]
This week let’s discuss forklifts! Did you know that we inspect forklifts!? However, we need to remember that forklifts are NOT snow plows. Unfortunately, we need to remind people that forklifts are not to be used to plow snow! In a recent situation, we took on a 16,000lbs Forklift Mast Repair, more […]
This blog will discuss the safety importance of crane wheels, more specifically the issue of mismatched wheels. Mismatched wheels: the wheel must match the profile of the rail. I Beams require angled wheels, and W Beams require flat wheels. This is part two of crane wheels as discussed in the previous blog. Clearly mismatched wheels […]
This week let’s chat about the importance of Crane Wheels. The slip of an engineers pen. The specification made in error. And finally the error is transposed onto a drawing. These are all very easy mistakes to make, and it has happened in the past and continues to happen in todays’ crane installations. […]
