Heavy Lift Solutions
BAE Gantry Crane
Jake’s Heavy Lift Division, in conjunction with its Custom Fabrication Division, supplied a customized TG1900 Gantry for BAE’s shipyard operations in San Diego
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Jake's custom designed TG1900 Portal Gantry mounted upon a 32' gage rail at the Shinston Power Plant in West Virginia. It straddles the 4'-11" gage railway for the uniquely designed and manufactured 'KelKart' transport system.
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Jake’s SL400 (Street Legal 400-ton capacity) truck crane shown picking 1,000,000 lbs. at minimum (13.7 ft.) radius, 1991. This stellar crane can be set up to begin operations within two hours after arriving at the jobsite. Both the crane itself and the 500-ton capacity 40 ft. spreader bar were conceived, designed, engineered, fabricated, load tested and certified at Jake's own facilities.
>> See MorePicking Max Loads in Alaska
Jake’s American 11320 Guy Derrick removing vessel in tight quarters at Kenai oil refinery
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Schnabel Heavy Haul System
JXS (Jake’s Xtra Speed) ultra-heavy transport system moving a Jake’s 11320 American crawler crane en route at freeway speed to Southern California complete with carbody, house, gantry, boom inner, and all drums full. This Schnabel configuration eliminates the bed both to lower the profile and to maximize payload-to-gross-weight efficiency.
>> See MoreVessel Transfer Port/Refinery
Refinery vessel transported on support beams mounted upon castered-steering dollies from Port of Richmond, California, to Rodeo, California
>> See More425,000 lb. Autoclave Move
Jake’s custom-designed, engineered and fabricated JXS (Jake’s Xtra Speed) ultra-heavy transport system, hauling a massive autoclave on the I-80 freeway 275-miles from Salt Lake City, Utah, to ‘Gold Mist’ mine in Nevada. Overall configuration en route was: 700,000 lbs., 18’ high, 21’ wide. As shown here, this 262' long, 164 wheel rig is successfully negotiating a 90 degree turn to avoid a low freeway bridge, 1989
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Jake’s custom-designed, engineered and fabricated heavy transport system. Truss evenly spreads load weight between front and rear tractors and castered-steering dollies. Shown transporting Jake’s American 11320 450-ton capacity crawler crane complete with carbody, house, gantry, boom inner, and all drums full. En route to set massive girders spanning I-5 for the Seattle Convention Center.
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State-of-the-art TG Redesign
In the redesigning/remanufacturing of the TG, great care was taken to be sure that the structural integrity of the machine was not altered. It’s new operator’s cab is 45% larger with 130% more glass. It’s hydraulic system, with it’s original maze of hose and fittings, is entirely replaced with new, state-of-the-art hydraulics and electronic, joystick controls. It’s power is provided by a Cummins QSK19 diesel engine that provides 600 horsepower with greatly reduced noise and emissions.
>> See MoreSpecialty Product Design
Rapid response design, engineering, and manufacturing tailored to meet customers' explicit requirements. Custom designed products shown above include Jake's 100-ton capacity 30 ft. spreader bar, two of Jake's shorter 100-ton spreader bars being used in tandem, material skips and a Jake's manbasket.
>> See MorePanama Canal Portal Gantry
Jake's custom-designed and fabricated mobile portal gantry supporting a Link Belt crawler crane (carbody and upper) for the Panama Canal Authority
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Low profile dolly enabling Jake’s SL400 (Street Legal 400-ton capacity) truck crane to meet California’s bridge and weight laws so as to qualify for an annual statewide on-highway operating permit (in CA only).
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American 9310 Guy Horse
Placing final I5-ton girder segment at 273 ft. radius utilizing custom-designed and fabricated rigging and luffing tower for an I-70 freeway arch bridge in Utah, ~1990
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Jake’s American 11320 ‘Mini-Super’ Sky Horse, “walking” with a 94’ dia. jet fuel tank at Las Vegas airport. An identical tank was moved by the same means in Colorado. This 99% capacity load was successfully moved using a custom designed and fabricated rigging system with 16 pick points plus special internal tank floor support, 1990.
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Special hexagon spreader bar with 36 pick points. Swinging and setting a 110-ton amphitheater at a 100' radius for Marnell Corrao at Caesar's Palace on the Las Vegas Strip
>> See MoreTG’s Atop Iowa Power Plant
Jake’s developed and coordinated the manufacture of installations for both trolly-mounted and static-mounted TG's atop the Council Bluffs 4 Power Plant, 2006
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Off-road Transshipment
Two 9-axle combinations, each with rear steering, delivering a 185-ton transformer in Southern Nevada
>> See MoreTransloading to JXS Trailers
Jakes American 9310 Conventional transloading maximum capacity load at minimum radius from special rail car onto front and rear synchronized JXS (Jake’s Xtra Speed) platforms that provide axle load equalization and maximize payload-to-gross-weight efficiency
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The JXS (Jake’s Xtra Speed) transport system is designed to meet all California on-highway bridge and weight laws
>> See MoreSky Horse Pick and Walk
Jake’s American 11320 Sky Horse transloading vessel onto a module (assembled at Swan Island, Oregon) for ocean barging to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, 1986
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