Heavy cranes used on the buidling sites

[jopaerya]

Looks one of the 28 cm turrets in Norway with crane , photo is from Ebay .

Regards Jos

[Janef]

Looks one of the 28 cm turrets in Norway with crane , photo is from Ebay .

Regards Jos

Yes, it is the Fjell battery. Wonder how this picture, negative no 11 on the original film, can be offered for sale. The film is owned by the norwegaian Armed Forces Museum

[jopaerya]

Hello JEF

Most of the realy good picture's from Ebay are from BaMa Koblenz ,
E.C.P.A. ( Paris ) , US SIgnal Corps and other archive's

Regards Jos

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Two images from Ebay. I do not know the crane model nor the gun model or the battery.
Any idea?


Sturm78

[jopaerya]

This crane is not running on concrete blocks but on wooden ramparts .

Photo = Ebay

Regards Jos

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Another image from Ebay. I do not know the location

Sturm78

[Andrzej Ditrich]

Next photo: heavy crane in mobile position+plan of this crane used to assembly Dora railgun.

[Andrzej Ditrich]

...one more photo seems to me interesting: this is not typical Culemeyer but transport platform for heavy crane. This time it's used for transport barrel of gun.
Any idea what battery this barel belonged to? Looks like 20,3cm.

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Another image of a heavy crane in transport position.
It seems that there was two models of this trailer: a 12-axles trailer and an 8-axles trailer.
Does somebody know which was the maker of these trailers? Culemeyer ??

Is the crane transported on a single load ?

Image from Ebay
Sturm78

[Natter]

P.S. In Norway there is one crane still in service ( Kystfort Forum )

There might be two. I saw another crane up north at a railway ranging-site a few years back, but it could have been gone now (I didn't notice it on my trip in 2011).

For Wim http://www.kystfort.com/forum/viewtopic ... lit=ardelt

Photos of the crane at Sangerlia (used for the building of MKB 6./501 Nötteröy [3x38cm KM 36./35 (f)]) for those not registered at the norwegian forum (sources: screenshot from a former NRK YouTube video, http://www.jernbane.net and the online map-service at http://www.opplysningen1881.no):

[Magmann]

Hi
This is a fascinating thread on an unusual subject. After looking at the posted photographs there appears to be what looks like a small cabbed diesel "locomotive" sited on the outside of the crane leg on quite a few of the pictures of the erected cranes. A similar "loco" can also be found on pictures of the large cranes used to erect the 80cm Dora railgun, but this time it is between the crane leg uprights.
I assume the "loco" is intended to power the traverse of the cranes along the runway rails. But how can the "loco" run on a single rail track? are there any pictures that could explain this, or are there any other ideas about this "loco"
Thanks for any forthcoming information

[wimve]

Interesting indeed.

On the picture of the Hansted II build you see the back of this "locomotor". I guess that since it is connected to the crane leg it will not tip over.
But on other pictures you see a crossbeam hanging over it. This would mean it is a locomotor that transports the stuuf to the crane to be lifted which would indicate a separate (small) track.

I hope somehow somebody can save /rescue this last crane. I already tipped Jens for his museum as a new international project
Sponsor Norway and Danish railways. Nice documentary of Discovery channel. If they can retrieve and film the salvage of a steam locomotive from South Africa to the UK, well this historical crane wouldn't be a bis challenge.

[Magmann]

Thanks for the prompt response wimve.
Had a second look and determined the guyed support as indicated. Perhaps in the future a picture will turn up that shows how the loco attaches to the crane leg or at least a description of same
Regards

[jopaerya]

Here the build-up or brake-down of the crane , picture is from Ebay .

Regards Jos