This crane was on the waterfront this morning, on the Colarusso dock. Its size was such that its giant boom was visible from Harry Howard Avenue, protruding up from the skyline.
The presence of the crane does raise a question. Colarusso has not returned to the Planning Board for a conditional use permit for its dock operations. Colarusso has been using the dock without a conditional use permit for several years now. The question is: Will the conditional use permit allow Colarusso to use the dock for things that have nothing to do with its own operations? Unloading giant transformers for some other company seems to have nothing to do with gravel and asphalt.
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With not being there, it appears to look like the Weeks 533 "500-short-ton capacity" heavy lift barge-mounted crane which is the largest floating crane on the East Coast of the US. I'd suspect that they had a delivery to the area some large transformers for possible large solar project. Perhaps, they may have floated the transformers across the river being that the weight of transformers may exceed the capacity of the Hudson Valley river crossings and it is in transit to another location or came in overseas and floated up river.
ReplyDeleteGross Limits by Bridge:
Rip Van Winkle 63ton
Kingston-Rhinecliff 54 ton
Mid-Hudson 55 ton
Newburgh-Beacon 53 ton
Bear Mountain 56 ton