Große Turmdrehkrane

[linaprin 1]

My opinion is different:
K-10000 was designed as a bottom slewing hammerhead tower crane for USSR market simply because
that kind of large cranes have been already present on the Soviet market.
I think they just needed something bigger for nuclear power plant construction.
http://tcfs.ru/modules.php?name=Forums&...topic&t=438
http://tcfs.ru/modules.php?name=Forums&...wtopic&t=56

Well, now we have seen a Potain MD22500, too.
The design of a K-10000 and a MD22500 are very similar.

I have two questions:

Why bottom slewing hammerhead cranes?
Who has copied who?

[djlivus 0]

Well, now we have seen a Potain MD22500, too.
The design of a K-10000 and a MD22500 are very similar.

I have two questions:

Why bottom slewing hammerhead cranes?
Who has copied who?

1 As I already quoted Kroll officials stated that 80s K-25000 was intended to be bottom slewing because they had no technical posibility to make it top-slewing. Only an expert in physics could tell us more.
2K-10000 is older than the project for md-22500, so.....

[djlivus 0]

potain md-900

[linaprin 1]

1 As I already quoted Kroll officials stated that 80s K-25000 was intended to be bottom slewing because they had no technical posibility to make it top-slewing. Only an expert in physics could tell us more.
2K-10000 is older than the project for md-22500, so.....

Thanks for the informations and nice photos.

[djlivus 0]

K-10000 view from the base