crossrail crane

[ffutures]

The big crane I've mentioned a couple of times, the one with the mysterious grab attachment, finally moved to a position where I could see its name and model number. Turns out to be a Liebherr HS 855, putting that into Google produces thousands of images, none of which have quite the same digging attachment.

Technical specs are here
http://www.liebherr.com/CR/en-GB/products_cr.wfw/id-656-0/measure-metric

The grabby thing looks similar to the one on the cover of the "image brochure for Liebherr duty cycle crawler cranes (HS Series)" but isn't quite the same.