Sims Crane Posts Video of Crane Lifting Generator to 18th Floor of Building

Sims Crane & Equipment, Florida crane rental and rigging service company, has posted a YouTube video of a Sims Crane team lifting a 450KW generator to the 18th floor of the BB&T building in Jacksonville, Fla. The video can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsKSrXFEac0&feature=youtu.be&a=

Michael Roth

Aug. 11, 2018

A Sims crane lifts a 450 KW generator to the 18th floor of a Jacksonville Fla office tower — A Sims crane lifts a 450 KW generator to the 18th floor of a Jacksonville, Fla., office tower.

Sims Crane & Equipment, Florida crane rental and rigging service company, has posted a YouTube video of a Sims Crane team lifting a 450KW generator to the 18^th floor of the BB&T building in Jacksonville, Fla. The video can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsKSrXFEac0&feature=youtu.be&a=

Sims Crane client Zabatt Power Systems relied on Sims for a turnkey job including the crane and all equipment, a 3D lift plan, rigging, road closures and detours, and all personnel. Sims used a 450-ton Tadano all-terrain crane for the job. The Sims team also removed an old generator unit before lifting the new unit into place via a window.

Also in Jacksonville, Sims Crane recently handled the lift of a 13,000-pound air-conditioning unit to the top of the historic Barnett Bank building in downtown Jacksonville, part of a major renovation and revitalization project. Local media covered the lift live.

Sims Crane & Equipment has 13 locations in Florida – Daytona Beach, Fort Myers, Jacksonville, Miami, Mulberry, Ocala, Orlando, Sarasota, Tallahassee, Titusville, West Palm Beach, Vero Beach and Tampa, where the company is based.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.