Locomotive cranes

Who s covered Employers with crawler cranes, locomotive cranes, wheel mounted cranes, and others with the same fundamental characteristics... 

Table 1.—Lifting Capacity op Standaed Locomotive Cranes...

Rarely is it possible to foretell the maximum proportional lifting radius at whicli a locomotive crane may be called upon to work, so considerable leeway in capacity must be allowed. The desired tonnage should be known, so a convenient empirical Formula (1) follows for ascertaining the size of crane best suited under ordinary conditions, while Formula (2) gives the average capacity of standard locomotive cranes in tons per hour when handling loose material. 

Example 1.—Desired size of locomotive crane required to handle 125 tons of material weighing 80 lb. per cubic foot per hour. 

Fuel Requirements,— Locomotive cranes are for the most part steam operated and on account of the intermittent nature of their operation average fuel consumption is the most reliable index of power requirements. With coal of average grade, the average fuel requirements for standard sizes of locomotive cranes are ... 

Labor.—The crews customarily required to operate locomotive cranes are shown in Table 4. 

The net cost of operating standard sizes of locomotive cranes consists of the expenses for fuel, labor, incidental expenses and burden, or net cost per ton. 

Example 1.—Required economic size and net operating cost (C) of locomotive crane for handling 50,000 gross tons (56,000 net tons) of loose material weighing 60 lb. per cubic foot within a period of 100 8-hr. days per year. 

Result.—Economic size, 20-ton locomotive crane, net operating cost, 5.86 cts. per ton. 

Example 2.—Required net cost of handling 80,000 net tons of loose material weighing 102 lb. per cubic foot with a 25-ton locomotive crane and the duration of the task. 

A remotely-operated crane in the separations plant lifts the hot piece of equipment with attached piping from a cell, places it in a metal-lined wooden box on a railroad flat car, and bolts down a lid. With the hot equipment inside the box, no one can stay within 600 feet of it for more than one-half hour. Ten empty cars separate the locomotive from the 6-ton piece of radioactive junk on the trip from the separations plant to the burial ground. Each burial is preceded by a dry run, during... 

Design of Overhead Piping. In designing such piping structures, the clearance and gradient or slope are primary considerations. The head-room required over railroad tracks usually is 20 ft and may need to be more to accommodate locomotive crane.s. Plant roadways and power lines also require headroom consideration. Overhead piping should be... 

This standard applies to such items as crawler, locomotive, truck, overhead, gantry, and tower cranes helicopter operations material and personnel hoists, elevators and conveyors. Loads on the overhead cranes must be labeled and legible from the ground floor. The proper clearance must be maintained between moving and rotating structures on the crane and fixed objects. Employees on these cranes shall be protected from falling by guardrails or safety belts. 

Hoist ropes on crawler, locomotive, and truck cranes must be free from kinks or twists and should be never wrapped around the load. 

ASME B30.5-2004, Mobile and Locomotive Cranes, issued Sept. 27, 2004 ( ASME... 

ANSI B30.5-1968, Crawler, Locomotive, and Truck Cranes, approved Dec. 16, 1968,... 

Locomotive crane means a crane mounted on a base or car equipped for travel on a railroad track. 

The outriggers must be set to remove the equipment weight from the wheels, except for locomotive cranes (see paragraph (q)(6) of this section for use of outriggers on locomotive cranes). This provision does not apply to stabilizers. 

For locomotive cranes, when using outriggers or stabilizers to handle loads, the manu-... 

Note Prototype testing of crawler, locomotive and truck cranes manufactured prior to November 8,2010 must conform to paragraph (a) of this section. 

All crawler, truck, or locomotive cranes in use shall meet the applicable requirements for design, inspection, construction, testing, maintenance and operation as prescribed in the ANSI B30.5-1968, Safety Code for Crawler, Locomotive and Truck Cranes. However, the written, dated, and signed inspection reports and records of the monthly inspection of critical items prescribed in section 5-2.1.5 of the ANSI B30.5-1968 standard are not required. Instead, the employer shall prepare a certification record which includes the date the crane items were inspected the signature of the person who inspected the crane items and a serial number. 

Traveling, (i) Hoisting of employees while the crane is traveling is prohibited, except for portal, tower and locomotive cranes, or where the employer demonstrates that there is no less hazardous way to perform the work. 

Well railways are inherently dangerous or can inherently be dangerous, a dangerous activity. Trains move very fast, they are very heavy, and they are no respecter of life or limb. We also of course operate a lot of heavy equipment, cranes etc. in the maintenance and repair locomotives, all of which can be potentially very, very dangerous, moving heavy loads around, tools, equipment, you name it we have got it. (manager, interviewee 91)... 

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