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 Post subject: Crane ID
PostPosted: 08 Aug 2011, 14:04 
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Just found this photo on Moveright Internationals website.
Any idea which crane where and when?
http://www.moverightinternational.com/h ... ilers.html

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 Post subject: Re: Crane ID
PostPosted: 08 Aug 2011, 15:16 
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Bryan,

The photo shows the former DS1560/ADRR95209 being transported from Swindon to Tyseley in February 2006.

DS1560 and DS1561 had stood together in Cocklesbury Yard at Swindon from withdrawal in 1989 until 2006 and when the yard, then leased to Castle Cement, had to be cleared (the cranes were already in the yard when Castle Cement took on the lease, but a condition of the lease meant that the yard had to be cleared prior to hand-back). At the time Castle Cement had no idea to whom the cranes belonged, and had commenced the necessary legal proceedings the scrap them, when a chance conversation took place between myself and the Facilities Manager for Castle Cement. To cut a very long story short, the end result was that both cranes were saved and found new homes, DS1561 moving to Southall, where it has subsequently been returned to working order, and DS1560 moving to Tyseley with the same intention.

Due to developments in Cocklesbury Yard since the arrival of the cranes their extraction and removal was far from straightforward (one of the many problems was a security fence which had been erected round the site, which actually passed between DS1561 and one of its relieving bogies)!

The "normal" way to move a load such as this by road is to remove the jib pins to separate the jib from the crane, and load the jib, jib runner and one RB on one transporter and the crane and the second RB on another, in order to keep the loads' sizes and weights manageable and to comply with the requirements of the Special Types General Order relating to the movement of an "abnormal indivisible load". When the time came to load the first crane however, it proved impossible to extract the jib pins and therefore impossible to separate the jib without inflicting irrepairable damage to the crane. It therefore became necessary to move the whole crane, complete with jib runner and at least one RB (in practice both were included) on a single transporter, and the same procedure was subsequently used for the second crane!

As far as I know these two movements are the only times that a complete RB crane has been moved by road as a single indivisible load, and a very impressive sight it was. Most of the movements were made at night to reduce inconvenience to other road users, and hence there are not many photos around. The movement was undertaken by Andrew Goodman and the Moveright International team.

Sadly, the gods did not smile on DS1560 in the end and (as recounted elsewhere on this site) the crane was sold from Tyseley for scrap in 2009, although, as you are more aware than most, it did provide parts for several other cranes.

In case you are wondering how it is possible to identify with absolute certainty which of the pair is shown in the photo, the answer is actually easy. DS1561 was at some stage fitted with 2-line air brake through pipes, which run very prominently along the solebars of the RB and crane. The absence of these pipes indicates that this is without doubt DS1560.

Roger


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