National Boom Truck Cab Repair
Cab Repairs – Save Time and Money
Cab Repairs – Save Time and Money
Link-Belt Service Life Project
This Manitowoc 777T sustained significant but repairable damage when it turned over on a wind project. WHECO provided a full turn-key repair that included engineered structural repairs as well as comprehensive mechanical, hydraulic, and electric/electronic repairs. The crane was re-certified and returned to service.
This accident damaged Link-Belt 8655 had extensive damage to multiple hydraulic cylinders, boom sections, and the upper super structure. WHECO’s Houston, TX heavy equipment repair facility replaced one cylinder and rebuilt another economically.
This accident damaged Kolbelco CK1000 tip section was given an engineered repair by WHECO’s Houston, TX facility. The repairs included 2 engineered chord repairs, 13 lacing replacements…
If you are keeping up with our blog, you will see that this is the fourth in a series of blog posts about service life extension/restoration projects for cranes. We have written about crawler, RT, and cab down cranes, and it was time to do one for conventional truck cranes. So, it is not a coincidence … Read more
The cab-down crane has long been used as an application specific crane. However, with the market being relatively small most of the manufacturers have ceased production of these cab-down units. Despite this, there has remained a pretty steady demand for good used or restored cab-down machines.
Rotating bed cracks were discovered on a Manitowoc 4100 Series II as well as some previous and ineffective non-OEM attempts to resolve the issue. WHECO provided engineering procedures and a repair solution that were both approved by Manitowoc. The repairs were performed and the supporting documentation was provided to the customer.
This Grove HL 150 jib base section damage resulted from a two-block incident. All four chords were bent upward with the center of the bend being just forward of the support plate that tied the upper and lower chords together.
The top plate on a Grove TMS750 crane boom was damaged due to an overload. An engineered repair was developed by WHECO and approved by Manitowoc. The crane was repaired, documented, and returned to revenue-generating service.