Haul and Lift of Refinery Combination Tower Goes Off Without a Hitch

摘要

Transporting a massive 555,000-lb refinery combination tower over 72 miles of land and water is a challenge not too many lifting and hauling providers can handle. Calling on its extensive planning, engineering, logistics, heavy haul/heavy lift, rigging and barging experience, Deep South proved up to the challenge. Crews lifted the tower using Deep South's 700-ton capacity J&R Engineering gantry system, loaded it onto a Goldhofer Dual-Lane transporter, and hauled it about 43 miles to a barge site in Port Arthur, Texas. It was then transloaded onto SPMT transporters using gantries and rolled onto a barge. Once docked near the refinery, two 6-axle-line, double-wide SPMTs were used to roll the tower into position where it was lifted by a 2,500-ton VersaCrane TC-36000/S1 (with 450-ft of boom) and a 440-ton Terex-Demag CC-2400-1 crawler crane.