10,000-ton shear-leg floating crane - GIF

[Altair]

Hyundai Heavy Industries 10,000-ton shear-leg floating crane.




Previously:

13,000-ton capacity crane - photo
enormous oil rig crane
10,000 ton crane hook - photo
Heavy lift ring crane - video
400-ft gantry crane transported by barge - photo

[IntheGroove]

How could that even work...

[Wildwilly]

Unbelievable what can be accomplished these days!

[IntheGroove]

Unbelievable what can be accomplished these days!

Photoshop is amazing...

[dbat74]

I just don't see what keeps the barge from tipping as the ship is picked up.

[sossol]

I just don't see what keeps the barge from tipping as the ship is picked up.

It's bolted down to the water behind the crane.

Yeah...that's the ticket.

Or it uses seawater as ballast on the non-lifty end.

Neil

[nova_robotics]

Photoshop is amazing...

I'm pretty sure it's real.

https://www.marineinsight.com/shippi...-in-operation/

[IntheGroove]

That image shows the true size of the ship. Makes sense...

[hemmjo]

By some standards, it is just a little boat Vessel SPINNER 2 is a cargo ship sailing under the flag of Japan. Her IMO number is 8967278 and MMSI number is 431401879. Main ship particulars are length of 121 m and beam of 19 m. The current position of SPINNER II is at coordinates 33.9798 N / 131.883 E, reported an hour ago by AIS. The vessel is en route to Japan, sailing at a speed of 0.1 knots and expected to arrive there on Oct 7, 3 PM.

The vessel SPINNER II (IMO: 8967278, MMSI 431401879) was built in 2001 (21 years old) and is currently sailing under the flag of Japan.

[dbat74]

seems like more research is needed here. thanks for volunteering.