Any riggers in the house?

[Rubycon]

What is the piece of equipment called?

Yes in the middle of the pic dwarfing the tow motor near the bottom!

 

[spidey07]

Looks like it's meant to move containers. Like a mobile container crane.

 

[daw123]

Container lift? (It looks similar to the photo below)

 

[herm0016]

tow motor = fork lift?

looks like a travel lift to me, just with specialized device for containers.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

I misread the thread title.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

I misread the thread title.

Diggers?

 

[Perknose]

Wow, my first quick glance at your title -- Any riggers in the house? -- had me craning my neck in initial disbelief. I could scarcely container myself and was thinking, "What the ship?"

 

[krylon]

Wow, my first quick glance at your title -- Any riggers in the house? -- had me craning my neck in initial disbelief. I could scarcely container myself and was thinking, "What the ship?"

frag

 

[amdhunter]

Racist

 

[D1gger]

Diggers?

You called???

On topic ... I've always called these mobile gantry cranes.

 

[Kirby]

I misread the thread title.

rigro please!

 

[Perknose]

frag

Pissy

 

[skyking]

I call them straddle trucks. that was the vernacular for their smaller predecessors in the apple warehouse districts where I grew up.

 

[MotF Bane]

Pissy

Cant

 

[Perknose]

Cant

Frigate

 

[Rubycon]

Awesome!

I figured either you or BoomerD would chime in with some words of wisdom. :awe:

I call them straddle trucks. that was the vernacular for their smaller predecessors in the apple warehouse districts where I grew up.

 

[ScottyB]

You can't use that word. Only we're allowed to use it.

 

[skyking]

Awesome!

I figured either you or BoomerD would chime in with some words of wisdom. :awe:

I saw those things zipping around the warehouse districts when I was riding my bike, they kinda scared the crap out of you. You were never sure if the operator saw you from 14 feet up. They had ginourmously long chain drives down the side, they really did "zip around". Think of the sounds the old carnival rides make.

 

[Rubycon]

I saw those things zipping around the warehouse districts when I was riding my bike, they kinda scared the crap out of you. You were never sure if the operator saw you from 14 feet up. They had ginourmously long chain drives down the side, they really did "zip around". Think of the sounds the old carnival rides make.

Yes I know that sound too well.

Fortunately for me I watch them from the distance. I took that picture when I was in Bridgetown, Barbados in 2007. Another busy port is Freeport, Bahamas. Those guys run those things so fast you can hear the tires squealing! Amazing they don't tip over. Tron anyone?

 

[BoomerD]

Bah...no rigger needed with those.

Mobile container lifting equipment can be known by a wide variety of names, depending on locale and manufacturer.

Straddle buggy, straddle truck, top pick, travelifts, translifts are all just a few of the multitude of names for such equipment.

If the rigger is of African-American descent, is he a "n*gger rigger?"

According to the black ironworkers I've worked with...yes he is.

 

[Rubycon]

Wow I'm not touching that one...

With a ten foot gin pole!