Crane News

What Does a Lift Supervisor Actually Do?

On any complex lift, the crane operator handles the load and the rigging crew works the hardware, but someone has to hold the full picture in view. That's where the lift supervisor sits. At TNT Crane & Rigging, we work alongside project managers and contractors…

Radio Communication Best Practices for Crawler Crane Operations

At TNT Crane & Rigging, radio communication best practices for crawler crane operations are treated as a core component of lift planning, not an afterthought addressed on the day. Crawler crane lifts introduce communication challenges that don't exist on smaller equipment: extended boom and jib…

How Rigging Hardware Gets Inspected and Rated

At TNT Crane & Rigging, rigging hardware inspection is not a pre-lift formality; it is a continuous operational discipline that runs from the moment equipment is specified through to its retirement from service. Understanding how rigging hardware gets inspected and rated means understanding what those…

What Is a Luffing Jib and When Does It Matter?

At TNT Crane & Rigging, the question of what a luffing jib is comes up most often when a project manager is standing on a constrained urban site, looking at boundary lines that don't leave room for a conventional crane setup. It's a legitimate and…

How Lift Planning Reduces Risk on Oil Sands Sites

At TNT Crane & Rigging, lift planning on oil sands sites isn't a preliminary formality; it's the operational foundation that everything else is built on. How lift planning reduces risk on oil sands sites comes down to one principle: hazards that are identified and accounted for before a lift begins cannot ambush the…

What Is a Tandem Lift and When Is It Required?

At TNT Crane & Rigging, some of the most technically demanding work we do involves loads that no single crane can handle alone. When project conditions call for distributing a load across two or more cranes simultaneously, we're working in tandem lift territory, and the lift planning requirements that come…

Safety Protocols for Crawler Crane Night Operations

Night lifts introduce a specific category of risk that daytime planning assumptions cannot adequately address. At TNT Crane & Rigging, our approach to safety protocols for crawler crane night operations is grounded in the same iCare principles that govern every project we support, with additional layers of pre-shift assessment,…

Crane Capacity Ratings and Configuration Variables

When a project team asks for a crane to move a specific load, the instinct is often to match the crane's rated capacity to the load weight and call it done. That approach misreads how crane capacity works. At TNT Crane & Rigging, crane capacity…

Swing Radius and Site Space Requirements for Cranes

At TNT Crane & Rigging, we see the same lift planning gap come up repeatedly: a site is prepared for the lift itself but not for the crane performing it. Understanding swing radius and site space requirements is the difference between a project that executes…

Wire Rope Inspection Guidelines for Rigging Safety

At TNT Crane & Rigging, wire rope inspection is treated as a foundational operational discipline, not a compliance formality. Wire rope is a critical load-bearing component in every lift, and its condition directly determines whether a rigging assembly performs as engineered. A systematic inspection protocol…