Our speakers this month were Andrew Lloyd and Kaitlin Meynell from the company Select Plant Hire and was a follow up to a previous talk on tower cranes.  A crawler crane can be described as the combination of a crane and a tank – they are precise to operate and very powerful.   

The cranes are very versatile as they can be used on different types of terrain – they are frequently used in the construction of bridges (for example on the M25) or in drilling and piling.  

After Andrew had shown examples of these applications, Kaitlin talked about her own studies on the effect of wind on the spinning of loads.