Große Turmdrehkrane

[linaprin 1]

Hallo!
Did Potain manufacture other giant tower cranes before advent of MD series, (so, excepting cranes like md-1000, md1400, md2200, md3200)?

thanks,

djlivus

What is giant is always relative
This crane was once called a monster but today it is nothing special.

[linaprin 1]

still counterjib

Something similar...http://www.google.com/patents?id=ZVE7AAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=tower+crane&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q=tower%20crane&f=false

[WEITZ 0]

Hello Djlivus,

Potain also made MD700,MD 830 and MD900.

Greetings,
Weitz

[djlivus 0]

@Linaprim @Weitz: thanks for the information. Indeed, 982 is a nice crane , but I dont't understand why Potain said it was the biggest of its time. Already in 1959 Pingon had a 350 mt, 70m HUH crane, 50 ton max load and 65 m jib, and also a 2000mt crane, according to kran-info.ch. Anyway I like very much the cranes of that time.
Potain md-900 is still on the site of Potain in the archive section- 104 m HUH, 10x10m, base, 4x4m mast.

Was any of these cranes custom-made, with special parameters, like 1983/84 MD-1000?

[djlivus 0]

Does anybody know anything about the Potain 500mt shiped to South- Africa, specified in this text from 1984?