ALL Crane News
The Exceptional Landoll Trailer Dealer Equipment Profile
The Landoll Corporation is a provider of high-quality, innovative trailers, farm equipment, forklifts, and OEM/GOV equipment. And over 50 years, the company has earned a reputation for balancing quality and value, by offering top-line products at competitive prices.
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A Day in the Life: Coming Home - Jimmy Hill
Jimmy Hill was a long distance truck driver, but his talent and experience on the road made him the perfect candidate for ALL's logistics team.
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Equipment Profile: Tallest Platform In Its Class: JLG 1850SJ Ultra Series
“Short of turning off gravity and letting men float to the job, there hasn’t been an ideal or easy way to get guys up over 180 feet in the air to do work — until now,” said Scott Jerome, senior branch manager at Dawes, a member of the ALL Family in Kaukauna, WI. Jerome is talking about the new JLG 1850SJ telescopic boom lift that boasts an industry-topping platform height of 185 feet 7 inches — that’s more than 18 stories high.
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Branch Focus: Indiana Boomerangs
Everyone knows what a boomerang is — you throw it, and it turns around and returns to you. Central Rent-A-Crane has had its share of “boomerangs” as well: people who work for the company and then leave for a time, only to return later in their careers.
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Branch Focus: Hoosier Pride - Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne is Indiana’s second-largest city. While the state is a key part of the Grain Belt and Corn Belt, Indiana boasts a wide variety of thriving industries. In 2015, Chief Executive magazine ranked Indiana sixth in the country and the only Midwest state in the top 10 in a list of “Best States for Business.”
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ALL Aerials Adds Custom Hy-Brids to Fleet, Becomes Dealer
ALL Aerials, a division of the ALL Family of Companies, has added Custom Equipment's HB-1030 and HB-1430 scissor lifts to its fleet.
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A Day in the Life: Brian Meek Operator-Turned-Sales Specialist
Brian Meek has always been fascinated with heavy machinery. He seemed destined for a career in the lifting industry. “When I was a kid, I used to ride my bike to construction sites. This business — it’s been a passion for me since I was little.
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Winterize to Maximize Your Investment What ALL does to prepare North America's largest privately owned fleet for winter
Fall is beautiful. Leaves change colors, and summer heat changes to crisp, cool air. Nobody wants to think about the coming snow, ice and freezing winds that can come on fast. But denial and avoidance leave you unprepared for what’s sure to come.
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Building Bridges Terex Package Adds ATs, Crawler and Truck Cranes or Bridge Construction and Beyond
From the longest wooden covered bridge in the United States to the sleek steel pedestrian bridge at the Art Institute of Chicago, the ALL Family of Companies’ expertise spans every type of bridge construction and a multitude of difficult geographic conditions.
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Beyond the Hard Hat More Jobs in the Construction Industry
When people think of the construction industry, they generally think of hard hats, illuminated vests and work boots — maybe flaggers on the highway or folks who operate heavy machinery.
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The Swede Spot Terex Engines
As part of a recent acquisition of a package of Terex cranes, the ALL Family of Companies added two all-terrain 5500 Explorer models to their fleet
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The Next Generation of Excellence Labor, retention, & recruiting: The true measure of a company is the people it employs.
For more than 50 years, the ALL Family of Companies has worked to distinguish itself in its field, and that hard work has paid off.
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The Mighty Manitowoc A Look at the Colossal 21000 - Bigger than Godzilla
A huge red arm across the blue sky, the boom of the 1,000-ton Manitowoc 21000 crawler crane, with its elaborate interlaced lattice pattern and jaw-dropping dimensions, inspires awe in people who know little about cranes.
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10 Tons of Power The SKYJACK ZB2044
The three-story condominium complex stood in its skeletal state — all structural steel in place. And just in time. All of the subcontractors working on the facility now had to coordinate their efforts and the tools of their various trades.
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Employee Celebrates 40th ALL Anniversary
"Anything I can do for the company, I'm willing to do it." - Leonard Kelley
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Three Part Harmony: Trucks, Trailers, and Team
Good construction is a bit like harmony; you don’t notice how well it’s going until someone is out of tune.
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Tough As Steel...And Then Some
Whether it’s used to fabricate a small hand tool or a flatbed trailer, galvanized steel is the best defense against metal’s worst enemy: rust.
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More Than Rental: An Authorized Distributor Dawes: A Trusted Source for Link-Belt Since 1995
Although the ALL Family of Companies has been known as a crane rental leader since 1964, it has also made a name in the industry as an authorized distributor for many of the top brands of lift equipment: Link-Belt Cranes, Broderson carry deck cranes, Genie and Skyjack aerial lifts, JLG and SkyTrak aerials and telehandlers, Terex Cranes, and three crane brands manufactured by Manitowoc (National boom trucks, Shuttlelift carry deck cranes, and Potain self erecting tower cranes).
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Where and when you need it
American Cranes & Transport Spoke to ALL about the importance of global access to maintenance, predictive service and dedication to product
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Maintenance Matters Protecting the Investment in the Fleet
n April 2014, TECO (Tampa Electric) Energy, Inc. undertook a complicated construction project at their Big Bend coal-fired power station in Tampa Bay. Routine inspection had uncovered deterioration in one of the plant’s 300-foot-long steel ducts that was inside a 500-foot-high smokestack. The aging ductwork had to be replaced with fiberglass, necessitating a scheduled 45-day shutdown.
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