There’s nothing Boulter enjoys more than lifting large, heavy objects. Since we have been in this business for over 120 years, we have learned a thing or two about the most efficient and safest ways to install machinery and equipment. So setting three 65-foot hot water silo’s, each weighing approximately 21 tons (42,000 lbs), is all in a day’s work.
Each silo was delivered to site and our crew went to work with the necessary rigging to hoist and trip the tanks into the upright position using two cranes. For this job we used a 350-ton capacity crane as well as our 75-ton mobile truck crane.
Multiple pipe connections in various locations on each silo means that placement is critical. Using the customers supplied drawing, our crew went through the process of measuring and snapping chalk lines to layout each individual silo destination.
Directed by our certified signalman, the crane hoisted each silo across the work area to the landing point where our team guided and landed them in position.
In this case, 12 epoxy anchors were required by the manufacturer to secure each silo in place on the concrete slab. With the use of a hand held core drilling machine, the installation was completed by securing the anchors and hold down blocks.
