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Cranes and Derricks Item #: 280-8893-99 (DISC) Author: Howard Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapir Publisher: McGraw-Hill ISBN:0070578893 Format: Hardcover Your Price: $104.95 |
Everything you need to know about using cranes and derricks!If you employ cranes, trust one rock-solid reference to provide tried-and-tested guidelines for selecting and working with them safely and efficiently. Nothing available covers the subject with the depth and expertise you'll find in Cranes and Derricks. The authors, Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, and Lawrence K. Shapiro, are the principals of an international firm that has helped define the state-of-the-art in crane and derrick engineering.This new third edition addresses the latest innovations and technologies, including new telescopic crane attachments and heavy-lift mobile crane arrangements (both telescopic and lattice boom); newly-permitted partial outrigger extensions (a solution to the problem of crane stability under dynamic loading); crane support considerations; pick-and-carry work; tailing operations; site access and other site issues; new information on safety and accident avoidance and risk management; and much, much more. 576 pp. |
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