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24/07/10 Dragon Access team up with Wayne Rooney's Street Striker Reality Programme
Dragon Access were asked to solve a complicated access issue at the Bullring Shopping Centre, Birmingham. Working with a high profile event company who were hosting Wayne Rooney's Street Striker in association with Coke Zero, the only access to site was along a steep slope, we supplied a Teupen Leo 23GT which easily coped with the gradient of the site.
04/12/09 Spiders team up for Christmas light spectacular
A spider crane and spiderlifts teamed up and overcame ground pressure and narrow access constraints to install a 700,000 Christmas light spectacular at the Westfield London shopping centre, Shepherd's Bush.
Lighting specialist, The Lite Fantastic, installed a cascade of 700,000 LED lights around the 32 metre high columns - the first of its scale and design to be attempted in the UK.
A 19.5 metre Unic URW-706 mini spider crane, rented from Coppard Plant Hire, was used to hoist two 23 metre working height Teupen Leo 23GT spiderlifts from The Spiderlift Company to first floor level to work in the atrium space. The company also supplied a 30 metre Leo 30T to supplement access working from the ground floor.
Loadings from the three tonne spiderlifts and six tonne capacity Unic had to be approved by Westfield London's structural engineers. The Leo 23GT platforms had a surface load of less than 1.8 kN per square metre in set-up and travel model, well within the five kN surface load limit typically required in shopping centres.
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30/11/09 Record breaking spider lift
Danish based Worldlift Industries is to launch a 52 metre Falck Schmidt spider lift in the new year. The new model, the Falcon 52, will be the world's largest spider lift and is being developed in co-operation with the lead customer - Dublin based international rental company Easi UpLifts.
The 52 will be based on the same design philosophy as the company's 42 metre model, including its dual track trunion mounted undercarriage system and tri-power pack- AC Electric, DC battery and diesel.
The overall dimensions will be similar, although marginally larger to accommodate the extra height and reach. As with other models in the range it will be designed to handle soft and uneven ground as well as delicate indoor floors such as fine marble.
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16/11/09 Police ticket cherry-picker putting up Cumbrian town's Christmas lights
Wigton volunteers who put up the town's Christmas lights at the weekend were furious when police gave them a parking ticket for their troubles.
Members of the town council and other helpers had braved Saturday's downpour to decorate the town centre.They parked their cherry-picker on zig-zag lines in King Street in order to reach the necessary heights, assuming the traffic breach would be overlooked given the circumstances.
But the town's police took a different view. Andy Huntington was driving the vehicle, so he was the one issued with the ticket - which leaves him with a £65 fine and the prospect of three points on his licence.
Andy, 45, of Highmoor Park, has been putting up Wigton's lights for the last 25 years and he intends to appeal against the ticket. He told the News & Star: "We're all very angry about this."
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