Boscaro Self-Dumping Bins Assist with Clean-up of Mine

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Built back in 1889, during Washington State’s short-lived mining boom, the Pride of the Woods mine was abandoned by the 1920s, leaving behind mine tailings laden with toxic metals like arsenic and lead. These tailings had been leaching into…
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Lights, Camera, NAVIS!

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Safety is paramount on any production set and in an industry where getting just the right shot can make all the difference, that safety is even more critical when people and equipment are being lifted high in the air. To read the full case…
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Hitting the Mark with Navis Wind Meters

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Shooting Range Wind Sensor: Check & Mate California’s Jim Ramsay entered the Extreme Benchrest competition as an amateur marksman but he finished it by besting the pros. His not-so-secret weapon? A shooting range wind sensor or more importantly,…
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Paradox Hotel in Downtown Vancouver

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Raising the Roof Without Lowering Productivity The Situation: The Paradox Hotel in downtown Vancouver needed a way to hoist all the pieces of the steel canopy at its podium up as high as seventy feet above street level. The crane had to stay…
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Tsawwassen Springs Golf Course

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Within a week of being hired, we had installed a 45 metre Koenig K70 with an 8,800 lb. maximum lift up close and a 2,000 lb capacity at a 148 foot radius. All at about a quarter of the cost to hire a mobile crane. To read the full case study, click…
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Innovative Derrick Crane: Heavy Lifting in a Small Package

It all started with an idea, and some Lego. One night, Ryan Burton, Managing Director of Bigfoot Crane, was playing Lego with his son and they started to build a miniature Derrick Crane. Weighted with nickels and dimes as ballast, the Lego…
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