KW Precast gets Shuttlelift DB70

KW Precast (formerly known as JW Peters) in Wisconsin, USA, has put its new Shuttlelift DB70 double-beam mobile gantry crane to work at the concrete manufacturing site.

The DB70 lifts bridge beams and parking garage double tees. According to the company, the cranes KW Precast originally had on site weren’t up to lifting the precast concrete structures.

Bob Hassey, KW Precast general manager, said, “The largest mobile gantry we had in the plant was a 50 ton [45 tonne] machine. Furthermore, the units that we do have all have quite a bit of hours on them. Faced with the likelihood that we would surely need a crane with higher capacity by early 2013, we decided that we had better act to ensure that we have the machine up and running by this year.”