Insights from a Crane Manager: The Vital Crane Parts We Depend On I’ll never forget that June morning. The sun was just beginning to rise when my phone buzzed with the call every site manager dreads. Our main Manitowoc crane had come to a halt, leaving twenty workers standing idle and watching their schedules slip away.
"It's the hydraulic system," my lead mechanic, Mike, said with a serious tone. "We need crane parts, and we need them now."
That day...