AII projects come with limitations, and on this one Barnhart had to maneuver around some living obstacles. The project was to set three generators ranging from 10,000 lbs. - 40,000 lbs. on the second floor of a commercial building.
Alongside the building was a row of pecan trees and the client requested Barnhart preserve them without breaking limbs or causing any damage. This required detailed pre-job planning and layouts.
First, the generators were trucked to the site and were offloaded with Barnhart's 265-ton crane and staged. But the area was so tight between the building and the trees that the team didn't have the room to offload with the moveable cantilever beam. Barnhart had to temporarily stage the new generators in a precise location on the ground in order for the cantilever beam to reach them.
The client would also not allow the crane's matting within a predetermined radius of each tree base to preserve the root system. This limited our crane's available reach points with the total weight of load and rigging being 108,000 lbs. Despite the challenges, the result was a job well done with no damage to the trees and a customer that was very happy with the work and crew.